US 12,357,715 B2
Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus
Tsunahito Nakashita, Chiba (JP); Tsutomu Kubota, Chiba (JP); Motoki Koshigaya, Saitama (JP); Tatsuya Ogawa, Ibaraki (JP); and Hidetaka Tabuchi, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/455,174.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-192830 (JP), filed on Nov. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0152238 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. A61L 2/10 (2006.01); A61L 2/24 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/10 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00503 (2013.01); H04N 1/00824 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus including at least one unit that receives a user operation, the image forming apparatus comprising:
an ultraviolet irradiation device configured to perform disinfection processing for disinfecting at least a part of the at least one unit;
an operation unit configured to notify a user of information;
a sensor configured to detect a presence of an object in a predetermined range from the image forming apparatus; and
a controller configured to,
control the ultraviolet irradiation device to stop the disinfection processing based on detection of the presence of the object in the predetermined range from the image forming apparatus by the sensor;
control the ultraviolet irradiation device to restart the disinfection processing based on the controller detecting that the object detected by the sensor has left the predetermined range from the image forming apparatus.