US 11,720,299 B2
Printing apparatus, control method for the printing apparatus, and storage medium for controlling a copy process
Hiroshi Yoneyama, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/102,187.
Application 17/102,187 is a continuation of application No. 16/423,807, filed on May 28, 2019, granted, now 10,877,704.
Application 16/423,807 is a continuation of application No. 15/061,763, filed on Mar. 4, 2016, granted, now 10,331,387, issued on Jun. 25, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2015-049973 (JP), filed on Mar. 12, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0072934 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1215 (2013.01) [G03G 15/50 (2013.01); G03G 15/6555 (2013.01); G03G 15/6564 (2013.01); H04N 1/00708 (2013.01); H04N 1/00734 (2013.01); G06F 3/1213 (2013.01); G06F 3/1244 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
a reader that reads document sheets to generate image data;
a sheet holding unit
a feeder that feeds a sheet from the sheet holding unit;
a printer that prints an image based on the generated image data on the fed sheet; and
a controller,
wherein the controller causes, after receiving an execution instruction of a copy process, the feeder to start to feed the sheet from the sheet holding unit, and then determines, based on a number of the sheets on which the image has been printed, whether to execute the copy process, and
wherein the controller executes, based on the received execution instruction and the determination that the controller executes the copy process, the copy process in which the reader reads a document sheet to generate image data and the printer prints an image based on the generated image data on the sheet fed by the feeder from the sheet holding unit.