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Image forming apparatus and image forming method

  • US 10,416,936 B1
  • Filed: 07/06/2018
  • Issued: 09/17/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2018
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image forming apparatus comprising:

  • a processor configured to;

    control the image forming apparatus in any one of a plurality of apparatus states including at least a normal state, which is a printable state, and a power saving state, which is an unprintable state and in which power consumption is lower than power consumption in the normal state;

    determine position information of a mobile terminal which is carried by a user, based on a signal strength in wireless communication that is performed between the mobile terminal and at least one radio device which is disposed at a predetermined position; and

    determine whether or not to change a control state from the power saving state to the normal state, based on the position information of the mobile terminal that is carried by the user who issues a printing instruction, in the mobile terminal,wherein the processor is configured to change the control state from the power saving state to the normal state, according to a determination result of the processor,wherein the at least one radio device includes a plurality of radio devices, andwherein the predetermined positions of the radio devices include a first position and a second position that is closer to the image forming apparatus than the first position,wherein the processor is configured to acquire position information of the mobile terminal, based on a first signal strength which is a signal strength in wireless communication that is performed between the radio device at the first position and the mobile terminal, and based on a second signal strength which is a signal strength in wireless communication that is performed between the radio device at the second position and the mobile terminal.

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