Patent ID: 7016083
Filing Date: 2006-03-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A copying machine comprising: a reading unit which reads an image on an original document and outputs image data representing the image; a printing unit which receives printing data and prints according to the printing data; a data storing unit which stores the image data output from the reading unit; a start-command accepting unit which accepts a start command for starting a copy job when the reading unit is not in a reading operation; a reading-operation control unit which executes such controls that when the start-command accepting unit accepts the start-command of the copy job, the reading-operation control unit causes the reading unit to start the reading operation of reading the image on the original document set to the reading unit and the reading-operation control unit stores the image data output from the reading unit into the data storing unit whether the printing unit is operating or not; a printing-operation control unit which supplies the printing data based on the image data stored in the data storing unit to the printing unit; a display; and a display control unit which executes such controls that the display control unit causes the display, for informing a user, to display a state of the process executed by the reading unit and a state of the process executed by the printing unit during the operation of the reading-operation control unit and the printing-operation control unit, and the display control unit causes the display, for informing a user, to display a state that the start-command accepting unit can accept the start command of the copy job and the state of the process executed by the printing unit when the reading-operation control unit is not in operation and the printing-operation control unit is in operation.