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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
May. 05, 2022
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Kenzo Yamamoto, Toyohashi, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a monitoring device that monitors another person's peeping into a document to be read, a medium on which drawing output is performed, or content displayed by an image processing apparatus, and the monitoring device includes a first hardware processor that: acquires person information indicating a person present within a predetermined range from the image processing apparatus; performs determination including whether or not a person other than the operator among persons identified by the person information acquired is a person having a predetermined relationship with the operator; and performs control to cause warning information to be output in a case where it is determined that there is at least one person not having the predetermined relationship among the persons identified, and performs control to cause output of the warning information to be prevented in a case where it is determined that all the persons have the predetermined relationship.