Printing apparatus and image processing apparatus that restricts user input under certain conditions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9106870-B2
Application number	US-201313950346-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 25, 2013
Priority date	Jul 27, 2012
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive an user's input, a display configured to display a status of the image processing apparatus, and a controller configured to limit an operation of the input unit. The controller is configured, if the image processing apparatus is not in progress of any image processing when a certain condition is satisfied, to display information of the limitation of the operation of the input unit at the display. The controller is configured, if the image processing apparatus is in process of an image processing when the certain condition is satisfied, to display a status of the image process at the display, and then to display the information of the limitation at the display after the image process is completed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing apparatus configured to perform input restriction or cancel the input restriction according to a notification received from an authentication device, the printing apparatus comprising:
a job manager configured to manage a job to be executed and provide notice of a start of a process necessary to execute the job;
an input-unit controller configured to control which screen to display on a display part of a display input unit and to control an inpu…

Assignees

• Oki Data Kk

Inventors

• Okubo Tsuyoshi

Classifications

• H04N1/00408

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06K15/005

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N1/4433 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/00856

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/4426

  Electricity · mapped topic