Patent ID: 7912395
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A monitoring apparatus connected to a monitoring camera capable of monitoring a user of an image forming apparatus through a communication medium, the monitoring apparatus comprising: a job-start-notification reception unit configured to receive a job-start notification from the image forming apparatus; a sheet-removal-notification reception unit configured to receive a sheet-removal notification indicating that the user obtains a printed sheet output to a sheet output portion of the image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus; an acquiring unit configured to acquire, based on owner information contained in a job to be processed by the image forming apparatus, information on an owner who requests for processing the job from a storage unit; a monitor-video-image recording unit configured to acquire a video image captured by the monitoring camera and to record the acquired video image as a monitor video image; an instruction unit configured to instruct the monitor-video-image recording unit to start recording a video image in a case where the job-start-notification unit receives the job-start notification, and to instruct the monitor-video-image recording unit to stop recording the video image in a case where the sheet-removal-notification reception unit receives the sheet-removal notification; and a managing unit configured to manage the video image recorded according to an instruction from the instruction unit, the information on the job processed by the image forming apparatus and the information on the owner acquired by the acquiring unit in association with each other.