US 11,991,320 B2
Image forming device, information processing device, display system, and display method
Shohei Kimura, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/165,364.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-018522 (JP), filed on Feb. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0254416 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00068 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00074 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming device comprising:
a reader that reads an image of a first original;
an image forming unit that forms an image read by the reader on a recording medium;
a display unit; and
a controller that
calculates, based on the image read by the reader and a set image formation condition, a first required time period required to form the image of the first original,
displays on the display unit a provisional required time period based on the first required time period between reading of the image of the first original by the reader and reading of an image of a second original by the reader,
calculates, based on the first required time period, a second required time period required to form the image of the second original read by the reader and added to the first original,
calculates, based on the first required time period and the second required time period, a completion period for completing an image formation by the image forming unit, and
displays on the display unit the completion period calculated.