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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Junji Kotani, Inagi, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01); H04N 1/42 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/32523 (2013.01); H04N 1/00204 (2013.01); H04N 1/00267 (2013.01); H04N 1/00413 (2013.01); H04N 1/00485 (2013.01); H04N 1/42 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus control method includes receiving an image, displaying the received image, presenting candidates for a printing device to be allowed to print the displayed image, selecting at least one of the presented candidates for the printing device, and transmitting, to the selected printing device, an instruction to print the displayed image. When the candidates for the printing device include a printing device that transmitted the image, the printing device that transmitted the image is presented in preference to the other printing devices.