Patent ID: 9740270
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: B41J,G01J,G03G,G06F,H04N,Y02D

Claim:
1. An electronic device comprising: an operation section being operated by an operator; a reception section receiving an operation made by use of the operation section by the operator; a human body detection sensor outputting a detection signal upon detection that the operator has approached the electronic device; and a mode switching section, based on presence or absence of the detection signal from the human body detection sensor, switching the electronic device between a normal operation mode permitting a normal operation and a sleep mode in a power-saving state, wherein the mode switching section: in a case where an operation of restarting the switching is performed a predefined number of times, the mode switching section does not restart the switching when the switching is subsequently stopped excluding a case where an operation instruction for restarting the switching is received.