Image forming system

• US 10,033,883 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2017
• Issued: 07/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Siddo, Ibrahim
• Application Number:
  US15/607,736
• Publication Number:
  US 20170346958A1
• Time in Patent Office: 420 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1231 Device related settings, e.g. IP address, Name, Identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1296 Printer job scheduling or printer resource handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1014 based on the content of a request
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00206 Transmitting or receiving computer data via an image communication device, e.g. a facsimile transceiver H04N1/00236 takes precedence

Abstract

An image forming system includes a multifunction peripheral in which a setting related to image forming is variable and a plurality of mobile terminal devices that are communicable with the multifunction peripheral. The multifunction peripheral includes an adjustment unit and an image forming setting control unit. The adjustment unit adjusts, based on a plurality of requests for adjustment of the setting related to image forming, which have been received by a multifunction peripheral communication unit, the setting related to image forming. The image forming setting control unit performs control such that the setting related to image forming, which has been adjusted by the adjustment unit, is reflected.

Claims

1. An image forming system comprising:

an image forming apparatus in which a setting related to image forming is variable, and

a plurality of external devices that are communicable with the image forming apparatus,

wherein each of the external devices includes

a request receiving unit configured to receive a request for adjustment of the setting related to image forming from a user, and

an external device transmission unit configured to transmit the request for adjustment of the setting related to image forming, which has been received by the request receiving unit to the image forming apparatus, and

the image forming apparatus includes

an image forming unit configured to form an image,

an image forming apparatus receiving unit configured to receive requests for adjustment of the setting related to image forming, which have been transmitted from the plurality of external device transmission units,

an adjustment unit configured to adjust, based on the plurality of requests for adjustment of the setting related to image forming, which have been received by the image forming apparatus receiving unit, the setting related to image forming, and

an image forming setting control unit configured to perform control such that the setting related to image forming, which has been adjusted by the adjustment unit, is reflected,

wherein the request receiving unit receives requests for a plurality of parameters for the setting related to image forming,

the adjustment unit adjusts the setting related to image forming in accordance with the parameters, and

the plurality of parameters include at least one of a distance parameter that indicates a distance from a place in which the image forming apparatus is installed to a location of a desk of the user and a degree-of-satisfaction parameter that indicates the degree of satisfaction about the operation sound of the image forming apparatus.

2. The image forming system according to claim 1,

wherein the setting related to image forming includes at least one of a setting of the speed of the image forming, a setting of expendables related to the image forming, and a setting of power consumption of the image forming apparatus.

3. The image forming system according to claim 1,

wherein the adjustment unit adjusts the setting related to image forming in accordance with a calculation value calculated by multiplying the distance parameter by a value obtained by quantifying the degree-of-satisfaction parameter in accordance with a several-number grading scale.

4. The image forming system according to claim 1,

wherein the external device is at least one of a mobile terminal device owned by the user and a computer owned by the user.

5. The image forming system according to claim 1,

wherein the external device further includes

an inquiry unit configured to inquire the external unit of a request for adjustment of the setting related to image forming after a predetermined period has elapsed since the setting related to image forming, which have been adjusted, is reflected by the image forming setting control unit.

6. The image forming system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a notification control unit configured to perform control such that an adjustment result for the adjusted setting related to image forming, which has been reflected by the image forming setting control unit, is notified.