Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, method of controlling the image forming apparatus and computer readable medium
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Application No.: US15331199Application Date: 2016-10-21
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Publication No.: US10078799B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Toru Ikeda
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2015-212186 20151028
- Main IPC: G06K15/00
- IPC: G06K15/00 ; H04N1/00 ; G11B27/00 ; G06F3/12

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of presenting to a user movies that show operation steps for solving a maintenance event occurring in the apparatus without increasing the number of times the user needs to perform the operation of playing the movie. A CPU is configured to play a combination of a plurality of movies as a series of movies that show operation steps for solving a maintenance event occurring in the image forming apparatus. The CPU is further configured to determine a stop point at which the series of movies that is playing stops playing, based on stop point information set for each of the combination of the plurality of movies. The CPU is further configured to stop the series of movies that is playing at the determined stop point.
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