US 11,928,375 B2
Image processing apparatus and operation status notification method for image processing apparatus
Hiroaki Nakamura, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed on May 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/745,625.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-089325 (JP), filed on May 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0382491 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/126 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1207 (2013.01); G06F 3/1259 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
a job acquirer that acquires a job transmitted from an information processing apparatus;
a function executor that executes a function requested for the acquired job; and
a completion notification selector that selects a time for transmitting, to the information processing apparatus, a process completion notification indicating normal termination of execution of the function after the function is executed, wherein
the completion notification selector selects, depending on whether the job acquirer acquires a new job, either a job execution completion time that is a time when the execution of the function normally terminates or a job acquisition completion time that is a time before the execution of the function starts, as the time for transmitting the process completion notification to the information processing apparatus, and
in a status where a function is currently being executed and no new job is acquirable, the completion notification selector selects the job acquisition completion time as the time for transmitting the process completion notification to the information processing apparatus.