US 12,147,721 B2
Image forming apparatus, method for controlling same, and storage medium
Yoko Takenaka, Chiba (JP); Akinori Takeo, Kanagawa (JP); and Nobuaki Fukasawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/052,370.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-182644 (JP), filed on Nov. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146069 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/44 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1238 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1205 (2013.01); G06F 3/1248 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an acquisition unit configured to, if a predetermined event related to a user operation is received, acquire first content that has been set;
a display control unit configured to control display of the acquired first content on a display unit, the display control unit displaying a setting screen on which information for displaying the first content and any timing as a timing for displaying the first content are settable, the any timing including at least a timing after authentication processing to the image forming apparatus and a timing after auto clear processing, the auto clear processing being processing of clearing a setting state on a screen displayed on the display unit of the image forming apparatus and returning to an initial value; and
a control unit configured to perform control so as to execute print processing of second content based on information related to the second content related to the first content being selected in the displayed first content and the image forming apparatus being authenticated, and so as not to execute the print processing of the second content based on the information related to the second content being selected in the displayed first content and the image forming apparatus not being authenticated, in a case where, as the timing for displaying the first content, the timing after authentication processing to the image forming apparatus is set on the setting screen.