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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Morimoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A feeding apparatus includes a measurement unit measuring an attribute of a sheet fed by a feeding unit to obtain an attribute value; a notification control unit making a notification of information representing sheet types in accordance with the attribute value obtained by the measurement unit; a selection unit accepting selection of a sheet type after the notification; a setting unit setting the sheet type selected by the selection unit as a type of the sheet; a history storage unit storing history information serving as information of sheet types accepted once by the selection unit; and a reference storage unit storing reference information serving as reference attribute values. The notification of the information represents the sheet types in a notification order decided based on the reference attribute values stored in the history information and the attribute value obtained by the measurement unit.