Patent ID: 9473661
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G01S,G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a receiving section configured to receive a print job input by a user; a distance acquiring section configured to acquire a distance between a position of the user and a position of the image forming apparatus; an arrival time calculating section configured to calculate a travel speed of the user based on variation per unit time in the distance acquired by the distance acquiring section and to calculate an arrival time indicating an amount of time it will take for the user to arrive at the image forming apparatus based on the calculated travel speed and the acquired distance; a printing section configured to execute the print job received by the receiving section; and an execution order determining section configured to determine an order of execution of a plurality of print jobs received by the receiving section according to arrival times calculated by the arrival time calculating section, wherein in a situation in which the number of print pages indicated in at least one of the print jobs exceeds the number of printable pages that is a maximum number of pages printable by the printing section, the execution order determining section multiplies an arrival time read for the print job by a weighting coefficient and determines the order of execution to start from a print job for which a shortest arrival time after the weighting is read, and the printing section executes the print jobs in the order of execution determined by the execution order determining section.