US 11,671,568 B2
Method for controlling projector, and projector
Tetsuro Tokuyama, Yufu (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corportation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/32,101.
Claims priority of application No. JP2019-175241 (JP), filed on Sep. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0099680 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. G03B 21/14 (2006.01); H04N 9/31 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 9/31 (2013.01) [G03B 21/14 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
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1. A method for controlling, via a control circuit processor, a projector having an input device accepting a startup operation giving an instruction to start up and a stop operation giving an instruction to stop, the method comprising:
starting startup processing in response to the startup operation and subsequently shilling to a preparation state to prepare for a normal state;
setting a task of stop processing in response to the stop operation in the preparation state;
executing the task in response to finishing of the preparation state; and
notifying a user that the task is set, during the setting of the task,
wherein a notification image showing that the task is set is projected to notify the user that the task is set.