Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and sheet management system
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Application No.: US16794727Application Date: 2020-02-19
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Publication No.: US11167949B2Publication Date: 2021-11-09
- Inventor: Hidetaka Iwai
- Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JPJP2019-031775 20190225
- Main IPC: B65H33/04
- IPC: B65H33/04 ; B65H37/02 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that assists classification of printed sheets of documents of print jobs includes: a correspondence table showing correspondence between sticky note attributes and keywords; and a hardware processor. The attributes represent appearance features of sticky notes to be attached to edges of the sheets so as to protrude from the edges. The keywords are extracted from the documents and denote topics of the documents. In response to execution request of a new print job, the hardware processor extracts a keyword from a document of the new job, judges whether the extracted keyword partially matches any keyword in the correspondence table, and when judging positively, creates a new sticky note attribute partially having an appearance feature represented by the sticky note attribute corresponding to the partially matching keyword in the correspondence table, and adds the new sticky note attribute to the correspondence table together with the extracted keyword.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200270092A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2020-08-27
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