Patent ID: 11972313
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. An image forming apparatus for estimating work related to a job that comprises a plurality of page data for printing, comprising:
a data acquiring unit configured to acquire, for estimation, the job that comprises the plurality of page data;
a unit estimating unit configured to calculate an estimation of the work for each specific unit of a plurality of specific units of the job acquired by the data acquiring unit, wherein each specific unit, of the plurality of specific units, is a respective page data of the plurality of page data comprised by the job;
an entire estimating unit configured to estimate and update the estimation of the work for the entire job in real time by accumulating, with prior calculated estimations of specific units of the plurality of specific units, the estimation of the work for a specific unit, of the plurality of specific units, at the time the estimation of the work for the specific unit is calculated by the unit estimating unit; and
an estimation presenting unit configured to present the estimation of the work calculated by the entire estimating unit in real time.