US 12,250,349 B2
Method for controlling image forming system and wireless operation unit
Daisuke Suga, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/481,767.
Application 18/481,767 is a continuation of application No. 17/571,669, filed on Jan. 10, 2022, granted, now 11,818,308.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-007087 (JP), filed on Jan. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0040047 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00477 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1267 (2013.01); G06F 3/1292 (2013.01); H04N 1/00244 (2013.01); H04N 1/00411 (2013.01); H04N 1/00424 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
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1. A method for controlling an image forming system including
a first image forming apparatus that has a first wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication and that is configured to form an image on a sheet based on image data,
a second image forming apparatus that has a second wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication and that is configured to form an image on a sheet based on image data, and
a wireless operation unit having a third wireless communication unit capable of wirelessly communicating with the first wireless communication unit and the second wireless communication unit, an acquiring unit configured to acquire, via wireless communication, status information, which is information on a status of the first image forming apparatus and a status of the second image forming apparatus, and a display configured to display the status information acquired by the acquiring unit, the method comprising:
a connection process in which the third wireless communication unit connects individually to each of the first wireless communication unit and the second wireless communication unit via wireless communication without a wireless LAN router;
a first acquisition process to acquire first status information regarding statuses of the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus;
a first display process to display the first status information regarding the statuses of the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus acquired in the first acquisition process;
a selecting process of receiving a selection of one image forming apparatus from among the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus;
a second acquisition process to acquire second status information which includes different information from the first status information and which pertains to the one image forming apparatus selected from among the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus; and
a second display process to display the second status information acquired by the second acquisition process.