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

Claim 15:
16. 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 a number of the special function of the image processing apparatus is a plural number, the plural number of the special functions including a first exclusive special function and a second exclusive special function each of which becomes activated exclusively for each other, and
wherein the computer is further configured to
receive a selection to activate one of the first exclusive special function and the second exclusive special function through the user interface during the effective period of the trial mode,
when receiving the selection to activate the first exclusive special function, activate the first exclusive special function and inactivate the second exclusive special function,
when receiving the selection to activate the second exclusive special function, activate the second exclusive special function and inactivate the first exclusive special function, and
not initialize setting information of the inactivated one of the first exclusive special function and the second exclusive special function.