IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: YOSHIDA AKITO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 24.12.2020
• Subjects: CINEMATOGRAPHY; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; 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

To provide an image forming apparatus, a control method, and a program that can appropriately perform notification when detecting a state different from a normal state in a picked-up image picked up by an imaging device.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 10 in a system 1 comprises an image forming unit that performs image formation, and the image forming apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires a picked-up image picked-up by an imaging device 20 that can be connected to the image forming apparatus via a network NW; a detection unit that detects a state different from normality in the acquired picked-up image; and a notification unit that, when the detection unit detects the state different from normality, performs control of performing notification according to the operation mode of the image forming apparatus.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】撮像装置により撮像された撮像画像において通常の状態とは異なる状態を検出したときに適切に通知が可能な画像形成装置制御方法及びプログラムを提供する。【解決手段】システム１において、画像形成を行う画像形成部を備えた画像形成装置１０であって、ネットワークＮＷを介して画像形成装置に接続可能な撮像装置２０により撮像された撮像画像を取得する取得部と、取得された撮像画像において、通常とは異なる状態を検出する検出部と、検出部が前記通常とは異なる状態を検出した場合に、画像形成装置の動作モードに応じて通知を行う制御を行う通知部と、を備える。【選択図】図１