Patent ID: 9609151
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image reading section operable to read an original document and generate image data from the read original document; a storage section operable to store the image data generated by the image reading section; a communication section operable to communicate data with one or more external digital signage devices; an acceptance section configured to accept a delivery instruction to deliver the image data with the one or more digital signage devices designated as destinations; and an operation control section configured to control the operation of reading the original document and generating the image data performed by the image reading section, the operation of communicating data performed by the communication section, and the operation of storing the image data performed by the storage section, wherein the storage section has a plurality of storage regions at least one or more of which are signage-specific storage regions associated one-to-one with the one or more digital signage devices, each of the signage-specific storage regions stores the image data generated by the image reading section having read the original document, the operation control section is further configured to: when the acceptance section accepts the delivery instruction, allow the communication section to send the image data stored in the signage-specific storage region associated with the individual digital signage device designated in the delivery instruction to the digital signage device designated in the delivery instruction and allow the storage section to store the delivery instruction as history information in the associated signage-specific storage region and after the relevant digital signage device has finished displaying the image data, allow the storage section to store the image data as the history information in the associated signage-specific storage region, and wherein if a display time of the image data displayed on a relevant digital signage device is equal to or shorter than a predetermined amount of time, the operation control section reduces a resolution of the image data and allows the storage section to store the resolution-reduced image data as the history information in the associated signage-specific storage region.