GUIDANCE PLAYBACK DEVICE, GUIDANCE PLAYBACK METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• Main Authors: ICHIYAMA SHOHEI, HIBINO TAKESHI, ITO MASAYUKI, SONODA YU, TOMITA ATSUSHI, KAWAMURA YUJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 22.03.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To present guidance to prevent a reduction in efficiency of operation compared with a prior art when a user understands the operation to some extent.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 1 plays back respective guidance for a plurality of steps constituting operation, and comprises: a continuous playback part 106 that continuously plays back the guidance according to predetermined order; a completion detection part 105 that detects a completed step in the plurality of steps while the guidance is played back by the continuous playback part 106; and a single-shot playback part 107 that plays back uncompleted guidance being guidance for an uncompleted step, in the plurality of steps, which is not completed and to be performed immediately after the detected completed step, in place of the continuous playback part 106 playing back the guidance.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】ユーザがある程度作業を理解している場合に、従来よりも作業の効率が低下しないようにガイダンスを提示する。【解決手段】作業を構成する複数の工程それぞれのガイダンスを再生する画像形成装置１であって、ガイダンスを所定の順番に従って連続して再生する連続再生部１０６と、連続再生部１０６によってガイダンスが再生されている間に、複数の工程のうち完了した完了工程を検出する完了検出部１０５と、連続再生部１０６がガイダンスを再生するのに代わって、複数の工程のうち、検出された完了工程の直後に行われるべき完了していない未完工程のガイダンスである未完ガイダンスを再生する単発再生部１０７と、を備える。【選択図】図４