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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2020
Applicant:
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Yusuke Kato, Osaka, JP;
Muneki Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1273 (2013.01); G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1258 (2013.01); G06F 3/1285 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus according to the present disclosure has items relating to function control. The image forming apparatus includes a setting section and a classification section. The setting section sets item content for each function. The classification section classifies an item into a first item group depending on a change frequency of the item contents. The first item group is defined such that information indicating a change in item content of the group is sent to an external device.