US 11,700,340 B2
Method for registering a terminal in an image forming apparatus
Makoto Okumura, Sakai (JP); and Hiroki Munetomo, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/544,769.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-204362 (JP), filed on Dec. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0182507 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/44 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00973 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00061 (2013.01); H04N 1/00427 (2013.01); H04N 1/00546 (2013.01); H04N 1/4413 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for registration in an image forming apparatus operable by an operation device, the method comprising:
detecting an operation of the image forming apparatus;
displaying items of a plurality of operations on a display of a terminal connectable to the image forming apparatus; and
registering the terminal as the operation device if an item of an operation detected by the detecting conforms with an item of an operation displayed on the display of the terminal,
wherein the detecting includes detecting, as an operation, that a mechanism has been opened and closed by a physical operation.