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

Claim 0:
1. 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, when receiving a first job including image data, the image processing apparatus is configured to store the image data included in the first job until an execution condition of the first job is satisfied based on an input operation to the user interface,
wherein the image processing apparatus has an accumulated job function of executing a process of the image processor based on the image data of the first job after the execution condition of the first job is satisfied,
wherein a number of the special function of the image processing apparatus is a plural number,
wherein an execution method of the accumulated job function includes a first method of the accumulated job,
wherein in a case where the first method of the accumulated job is activated, the image processing apparatus is configured to receive an input of first input information through the user interface, the execution condition of the first method of the accumulated job being satisfied when the first input information is appropriate,
wherein the first method of the accumulated job is included in the plural number of special functions,
wherein the execution method of the accumulated job function further includes a second method of the accumulated job, execution conditions of the first method of the accumulated job and the second method of the accumulated job being different from each other,
wherein, when the first method of the accumulated job is activated, the second method of the accumulated job becomes inactivated, and
wherein, when the first method of the accumulated job is inactivated, the second method of the accumulated job becomes activated.