US 12,294,682 B2
Image processing apparatus and method of controlling image processing apparatus for restricting operation to notification information
Chikara Matsuda, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed on May 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/200,600.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-087956 (JP), filed on May 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0388431 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00925 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00824 (2013.01); H04N 1/00854 (2013.01); H04N 1/0088 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
a display which displays notification information regarding an occurred event;
a memory which stores one or more computer-readable instructions; and
one or more controllers, wherein
the one or more controllers, by executing the one or more computer-readable instructions,
detect the occurrence of the event,
determine whether the notification information regarding the detected event corresponds to notification information that requires a notification to a specific user,
display, on the display, notification information that includes a prompt to contact the specific user when the notification information regarding the detected event corresponds to the notification information that requires the notification to the specific user,
display, on the display, notification information that includes no prompt to contact the specific user when the notification information regarding the detected event does not correspond to the notification information that requires the notification to the specific user,
restrict, when the event corresponds to a virus infection of device information that is operable only by the specific user, an operation authority over the notification information that includes the prompt to contact the specific user to the specific user, and
make, when the event corresponds to a virus infection of input/output information for the image processing apparatus, the operation authority over the notification information that includes no prompt to contact the specific user unrestricted.