US 12,291,037 B2
Control method executed in information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
Taketomo Naruse, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/978,276.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-183632 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0147163 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17566 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17546 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17573 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing system including an information processing apparatus, a server system, and a printer,
wherein the information processing apparatus and the server system are connected via a network,
wherein the information processing apparatus comprises at least one memory and at least one processor which function as a plurality of units comprising:
(1) an image obtainment unit configured to obtain a captured image of an ink container containing ink to be used in printing, the captured image having been acquired by capturing an image using an image-capturing unit;
(2) a first identifier obtainment unit configured to obtain a first identifier for uniquely identifying the ink container from the captured image;
(3) a detection unit configured to detect a remaining amount of ink in the ink container by analyzing the captured image; and
(4) a transmission unit configured to transmit the first identifier and the remaining amount of ink to the server system via the network,
wherein the server system stores the first identifier so as to be associated with the remaining amount of ink,
wherein the server system manages the remaining amount of ink in the ink container and provides a service in which a new ink container is automatically delivered to a user in a case where the remaining amount is a predetermined value or less, and
wherein the printer comprises:
(a) a printing unit configured to discharge ink for the printing;
(b) an ink tank to store ink to be supplied to the printing unit;
(c) at least one memory and at least one processor which function as a display control unit configured to, after the remaining amount of ink in the ink tank is equal to or less than a predetermined value, in response to fulfillment of a predetermined condition corresponding to injection of ink from the ink container into the ink tank, display a specific indication that prompts the user to capture the ink container with the image-capturing unit.