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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2009
Applicant:
Yoshimichi Kanda, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshimichi Kanda, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a speech input unit that collects a sound including an ambient sound and a speech from a user for operating the image forming apparatus, a speech recognizing unit that recognizes the speech from collected sound, and an operation control unit that changes, when speech recognizing unit recognizes the speech, an operation state of the image forming apparatus.