Patent ID: 11870965
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 1:
2. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a communication device capable of communicating with a mobile terminal apparatus of a user;
an internal device; and
a remote operation processing portion, wherein
the remote operation processing portion (a) receives captured image data and operation position data from the mobile terminal apparatus by means of the communication device, (b) detects an operation panel image in a captured image indicated by the captured image data and identifies an operation position indicated by the operation position data, (c) identifies a relative position of the operation position with respect to the operation panel image, (d) identifies, based on the relative position, a part of the operation panel indirectly operated by the user, and (e) executes an action corresponding to the identified part by means of the internal device,
the captured image data is image data indicating a captured image generated by the mobile terminal apparatus capturing an image of the operation panel of the image forming apparatus, and
the operation position data is data indicating a position where a user operation on the captured image displayed on the mobile terminal apparatus was detected.