Patent ID: 11902484
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. An image processing apparatus comprising:
an image processor;
a user interface;
a memory; and
a computer,
wherein the image processing apparatus has a special function, the memory storing setting indicating that the special function is to be activated or inactivated, the special function being inactivated when the image processing apparatus is shipped from a factory,
wherein the computer is configured to, when receiving an input of a start command indicating start of a trial mode, execute a start process of starting the trial mode, the trial mode being a mode in which the special function is activated to be tried, an effective period being set to the trial mode, the special function becoming activated during the effective period of the trial mode,
wherein the computer is configured to perform
a determining process of determining, at a first timing after receipt of the start command, whether a current time is within the effective period of the trial mode, and
a termination process of terminating the trial mode at a second timing after determining that the current time is not within the effective period of the trial mode,

wherein the image processing apparatus has a plurality of the special functions including a first sharing special function and a second sharing special function which share the setting information used for the first sharing special function and the second sharing special function,
wherein the memory stores function information indicating whether each of the first sharing special function and the second sharing special function is activated, and
wherein, when the memory stores the function information indicating that one of the first sharing special function and the second sharing special function is inactivated, the computer is configured to
in a case where the memory stores the function information indicating that an other of the first sharing special function and the second sharing special function is disabled, perform initialization process of initializing the setting information stored in the memory, and
in a case where the memory stores the function information indicating that an other of the first sharing special function and the second sharing special function is activated, not execute the initialization process and hold the setting information when the trial mode is terminated.