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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2019
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshiro Tachibana, Inagi, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00408 (2013.01); G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1229 (2013.01); H04N 1/00496 (2013.01);
Abstract
In an image forming apparatus, an event detection unit detects occurrence of an event which requires replacement of a part, a notification unit notifies guidance for replacing the part if the event detection unit detects occurrence of the event, and a control unit ends a notification of the guidance using, as conditions, a case in which a cover open to perform the replacement is set in a closed state and a case in which an input of an instruction that the replacement has completed is accepted.