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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2019
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Toshimi Shinchi, Saitama, JP;
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus cooperates with a flying vehicle, and includes: a communicator that exchanges data with another device; a printer that performs printing on a paper sheet; a storage that stores positional information of seats, positional information of image forming apparatuses, and a moving speed of the flying vehicle; and a hardware processor that controls the image forming apparatus, wherein the hardware processor is to: obtain delivery destination information from a print job; receive positional information from the flying vehicle; read out the positional information of a seat as a delivery destination and the positional information of the image forming apparatuses; calculate a travel time until the flying vehicle reaches the delivery destination; transfer the print job to another image forming apparatus; and transmit information regarding the other image forming apparatus to the flying vehicle via the communicator.