IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE, JOB CHARGING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: NOGAWA HIROSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 10.08.2021
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; 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; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To solve a problem that there is a case that charging for a job executed by an image formation device is not proper.SOLUTION: An image formation device 1 comprises: an operation display unit 40 for displaying an image; a job execution unit 74 for executing a job; a reproduction control unit 73 which reproduces an advertisement during execution of the job by the job execution unit 74 and performs control to display the advertisement by the operation display unit 40; and a charge management unit 75 which changes charging for the job based on the reproduction time of the advertisement displayed by the operation display unit 40 during the execution of the job and manages the changed charging.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】画像形成装置にて実行されるジョブの課金が適正でないことがあった。【解決手段】画像形成装置１は、画像が表示される操作表示部４０と、ジョブを実行するジョブ実行部７４と、ジョブ実行部７４によるジョブの実行中に広告を再生して、広告を操作表示部４０に表示させる制御を行う再生制御部７３と、ジョブの実行中に操作表示部４０に表示された広告の再生時間に基づいてジョブの課金を変更し、変更した課金を管理する課金管理部７５と、を備える。【選択図】図２