US 11,789,679 B2
Information processing method, information processing program, information processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus
Taro Ishifune, Shizuoka (JP); Yuki Sugiyama, Shizuoka (JP); Shingo Harada, Shizuoka (JP); Yuya Konno, Shizuoka (JP); Lisa Kitadai, Tokyo (JP); Kazumasa Nohsho, Kanagawa (JP); Ryo Takaba, Kanagawa (JP); and Hayato Watanabe, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/883,433.
Application 17/883,433 is a continuation of application No. 17/200,662, filed on Mar. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,435,964.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-045742 (JP), filed on Mar. 16, 2020; application No. 2020-056557 (JP), filed on Mar. 26, 2020; application No. 2020-087708 (JP), filed on May 19, 2020; application No. 2020-101025 (JP), filed on Jun. 10, 2020; and application No. 2020-123116 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0371848 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 31/24 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); B65H 31/04 (2006.01); B65H 43/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1242 (2013.01) [B65H 31/04 (2013.01); B65H 31/24 (2013.01); B65H 43/02 (2013.01); G06F 3/126 (2013.01); G06F 3/1208 (2013.01); G06F 3/1232 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing method for an information processing apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus is configured to communicate with an image forming apparatus having an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, and having first and second sheet output sections, each configured to receive output of the sheet having the image formed on the sheet, and wherein, when conveyed along a first sheet output conveying path, the sheet is output to the first sheet output section so that the image faces downward and, when conveyed along a second sheet output conveying path, the sheet is output to the second sheet output section so that the image faces upward, the information processing method comprising:
inputting a type of sheet as an inputting process;
transmitting image information to the image forming apparatus; and
outputting, as a first output, a first message when the input type of sheet is a sheet recommended to be output to the second sheet output section,
wherein the first message is to give a notification that the input type of sheet is a sheet recommended to be output to the second sheet output section and to inquire about whether the input type of sheet is to be output to the first sheet output section or the second sheet output section before the image information is transmitted to the image forming apparatus.