- Patent Title: Notification device, notification method, and printing apparatus
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Application No.: US15485658Application Date: 2017-04-12
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Publication No.: US10223624B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Tomoki Yamamuro , Atsushi Arai , Tatsuaki Orihara , Ryo Shimamura , Akira Shiba , Kazuya Yoshii , Norihiro Ikebe , Takeho Miyashita , Masatoshi Ohira , Hirofumi Okuhara , Kazumasa Matsushita , Misato Furuya
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2016-093327 20160506
- Main IPC: G06K15/00
- IPC: G06K15/00 ; B41J2/175 ; B41J29/38 ; G06K15/10 ; G06F3/12 ; B41J2/165

Abstract:
A notification device can suppress the occurrence of a user's mistake in supplementing a printing liquid. An acquisition unit that acquires information relating to a residual amount of each of a plurality of printing liquids supplied to a printing apparatus and a determination unit that determines whether or not each of the plurality of printing liquids is a printing liquid of a notification target of which a residual amount is a predetermined amount or less based on the acquired information are included. In addition, a notification unit that, in a case where a plurality of printing liquids of the notification target determined by the determination unit are present, notifies of information relating to the residual amount of a predetermined printing liquid is included. This notification unit performs a notification with priority for a predetermined printing liquid satisfying a predetermined condition among the plurality of printing liquids of the notification target.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170320343A1 NOTIFICATION DEVICE, NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-11-09
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