Image communication apparatus having a maintenance operation mode, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

• US 10,455,095 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2017
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ito, Chie, Kondo, Yuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Douglas Q
• Application Number:
  US15/628,830
• Publication Number:
  US 20180020103A1
• Time in Patent Office: 853 Days
• Field of Search: 358400, 358 11, 358 113, 358 114, 358 115
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0005 in service, i.e. during normal operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00053 out of service, i.e. outside of normal operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00084 Recovery or repair, e.g. self-repair
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00925 Inhibiting an operation

Abstract

Facsimile reception is prohibited when an operation mode in which a service person performs printing for the purpose of maintenance is set.

Claims

1. An image communication apparatus, comprising:

a printer that prints an image based on image data;

a controller that shifts the image communication apparatus to an operation mode, wherein a service person performs printing for a purpose of maintenance in the operation mode, and wherein in a case where the printer prints the image in a state that the image processing apparatus is in the operation mode, a specific pattern is printed on the image by the printer; and

a facsimile interface that receives image data; and

a memory,

wherein, in a case where the facsimile interface receives the image data in a state that the image communication apparatus is in the operation mode, the memory stores the image data and the printer does not perform printing based on the image data received by the facsimile interface until the operation mode is released.

2. The image communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation mode is a mode in which the service person uses a print function, and is a mode for the service person to perform printing and confirm a print result after performing an adjustment of an image to print.

3. The image communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image communication apparatus has a copy function, and

wherein the printer is able to perform printing by the copy function when the image communication apparatus is in the operation mode.

4. The image communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in accordance with releasing of the operation mode, the printer prints the image data stored in the storage.

5. The image communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a display that displays information indicating that the image communication apparatus is in the operation mode.

6. The image communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an operation panel capable of accepting an instruction from a user,

wherein the controller that shifts the image communication apparatus to the operation mode in accordance with the instruction accepted via the operation panel.

7. The image communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein charging to a user is not performed when the printer prints an image in a state that the image communication apparatus is in the operation mode.

8. An image communication apparatus, comprising:

a printer that prints an image based on the image data; and

a controller that shifts the image communication apparatus to an operation mode, wherein a service person performs printing for the purpose of maintenance in the operation mode, and wherein in a case where the printer prints the image in a state that the image processing apparatus is in the operation mode, a specific pattern is printed on the image by the printer; and

a network interface that performs POP reception of image data,

wherein the network interface does not perform the POP reception when the image communication apparatus is in the operation mode.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a processor to execute a method of controlling an image communication apparatus having a facsimile interface that receives image data and a printer that prints an image based on image data, the method comprising:

shifting the image communication apparatus to an operation mode, wherein a service person performs printing for a purpose of maintenance in the operation mode, and wherein, in a case where the printer prints the image in a state that the image processing apparatus is in the operation mode, a specific pattern is printed on the image by the printer,

wherein, in case where the facsimile interface receives the image data in a state that the image communication apparatus is in the operation mode, storing the image data and not performing printing based on the image data received by the facsimile interface until the operation mode is released.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a processor to execute a method of controlling an image communication apparatus having a facsimile interface that performs POP reception of image data and a printer that prints an image based on image data, the method comprising:

shifting the image communication apparatus to an operation mode, wherein a service person performs printing for a purpose of maintenance in the operation mode, wherein, in a case where the printer prints the image in a state that the image processing apparatus is in the operation mode, a specific pattern is printed on the image by the printer,

wherein the facsimile interface does not perform the POP reception when the image communication apparatus is in the operation mode.

11. A facsimile apparatus, comprising:

a printer that prints an image based on the image data received by the interface;

a controller that shifts the facsimile apparatus to an operation mode, wherein a service person performs printing for the purpose of maintenance in the operation mode, wherein, in a case where the printer prints the image in a state that the image processing apparatus is in the operation mode, a specific pattern is printed on the image by the printer; and

a facsimile interface that receives image data by a facsimile communication,

wherein, in a case where an incoming call is received by the facsimile apparatus in a state that the facsimile apparatus is in the operation mode, the interface does not receive the image data.