Patent ID: 8867936
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus which operates in a first power state in which power is supplied to a part of the image forming apparatus and a second power state in which power is not supplied to the part of the image forming apparatus, comprising: a reception unit that receives image data transmitted from an external device; an acquisition unit that acquires image data by reading a document; an image forming unit that executes a printing function of forming an image based on image data received by the reception unit or a copying function of forming an image based on image data acquired from the acquisition unit; and a control unit configured to shift a power state of the image forming apparatus (i) to the second power state upon an elapse of a first time after forming the image by the copying function based on the acquired image data, and (ii) to the second power state upon an elapse of a second time, different from the first time, after forming the image by the printing function based on the received image data.