Patent ID: 11960778
Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A smartphone configured to operate in cooperation with an image forming apparatus, comprising:
a processor configured to:
communicate with the image forming apparatus; and
transmit first information relating to a job to the image forming apparatus, receive, as received certification information, certification information corresponding to the first information from the image forming apparatus, output the received certification information to the image forming apparatus, and cause the image forming apparatus to execute the job in response to receiving, from the smartphone, transmission start information associated with the job, wherein the transmission start information represents encoded image data representative of a signal sequence unobservable by a user identity, and wherein the signal sequence is conveyed via proximity wireless communication between the smartphone and the image forming apparatus.