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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2006
Applicants:
Junichi Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kosuke Yamamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Junichi Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kosuke Yamamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technology is provided that suppresses a noise that an image forming apparatus makes in the course of an operation thereof from interfering with a user who is watching television. When a printerreceives a print command, the printerperforms a print job as per a normal mode if a commercial is being displayed on a digital TV. If what is being displayed on the digital TVis not the commercial, the printersuspends the print job until the commercial begins to be displayed.