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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2015
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Katsuji Furushige, Osaka, JP;
Tomonori Naota, Osaka, JP;
Tomihito Doi, Osaka, JP;
Makoto Kowaka, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Murakami, Osaka, JP;
Kyota Mitsuyama, Osaka, JP;
Ayaka Ikejima, Osaka, JP;
Yosuke Nakazato, Osaka, JP;
Masato Hirota, Osaka, JP;
Kentaro Okamoto, Osaka, JP;
Daijiro Kitamoto, Osaka, JP;
Koji Ikawa, Osaka, JP;
Satoshi Imai, Osaka, JP;
Minoru Takahashi, Osaka, JP;
Wataru Tsukuda, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image forming apparatus having a control circuit. The control circuit includes a standard application execution circuit, an apparatus control platform, and a standard application control circuit. The standard application execution circuit has the standard application execution service that executes a standard application. The apparatus control platform includes control service, apparatus control execution service, and an apparatus control management service. The control service controls hardware on an operating system. The apparatus control execution service executes the control service with an interface that is an executing procedure of the control service. The apparatus control management service instructs a call of the control service to the apparatus control execution service. The standard application control circuit manages a state of the standard application and provides an interface for using the hardware resources of the standard application execution service.