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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2014
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kazuhisa Kishimoto, Mitaka, JP;
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/1889 (2013.01); H04N 1/00209 (2013.01); H04N 1/00838 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an image of an identification card; a printing unit; a utilization purpose entry receiving unit configured to receive an entry of a utilization purpose of a document to be printed by the printing unit; and a control unit configured to overlap a text indicating the utilization purpose received by the utilization purpose entry receiving unit, with the image of the identification card, and to instruct the printing unit to print the overlapped text and the image of the identification card.