US 12,086,490 B2
Image forming apparatus generates folder to store data, appropriately controlling display a folder that satisfy a display condition, and folder display control method
Mikiya Okada, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Osaka (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/371,421.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-166346 (JP), filed on Oct. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0126493 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/127 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1205 (2013.01); G06F 3/1222 (2013.01); G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); H04N 1/00424 (2013.01); H04N 1/00946 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a controller;
a storage that is capable of storing data; and
an image former that forms an image based on the data, wherein
the storage has an individual folder, and
the controller
stores, if the data has been received from an external apparatus, the data in the individual folder to which a name based on information on the external apparatus is assigned,
enables settings for the individual folder,
displays, on a screen that displays the individual folder, the individual folder that is set to satisfy a display condition, regardless of whether the data is stored in the individual folder, and
hides the individual folder from the screen in a case that the individual folder is an individual folder that does not satisfy a display condition and does not store the data.