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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2021
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroki Ito, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00474 (2013.01); H04N 1/00411 (2013.01); H04N 1/00896 (2013.01);
Abstract
When a home position sensor detects that an operation unit has been moved out of a home position, a function of a human detection sensor is temporarily disabled. This makes it possible to prevent the human detection sensor from wastefully continuing the detection operation although the human detection sensor is unable to detect a person intending to use an image forming apparatus, and from erroneously detecting a person not intending to use the image forming apparatus.