US 12,170,748 B2
Image forming apparatus
Takuya Uemura, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/510,304.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-184527 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0171693 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00896 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00411 (2013.01); H04N 1/00891 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04101 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising:
a display unit configured to perform display relating to a setting of image processing performed by the image forming apparatus;
a detection unit configured to detect a user's finger at a position separate from a surface of the display unit by a first distance in a vertical direction perpendicular to the surface of the display unit, and detect the user's finger at a position separate from the surface by a second distance longer than the first distance; and
a control unit configured to control the display unit to turn on and off,
wherein in a case where the display unit is in an off state, the detection unit detects the user's finger at the position separate from the surface of the display unit by the second distance in the vertical direction, and
wherein in a case where the detection unit detects the user's finger at the position separate from the surface of the display unit by the second distance in the vertical direction, the control unit controls the display unit in the off state to turn on.