System, and method for controlling the system

摘要

An image forming apparatus, which forms an image on paper and is connected to be communicable with an image capturing apparatus that captures a person existing around the image forming apparatus, includes a receiving unit configured to receive a job, a generation unit configured to generate information representing a user who has input the job received by the receiving unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the information representing the user, which has been generated by the generation unit, to the image capturing apparatus.

主权项

1. A system including an image forming apparatus that forms an image on paper and an image capturing apparatus that captures a person existing around the image forming apparatus, wherein
the image forming apparatus comprises: a receiving unit configured to receive a job; a generation unit configured to generate a list of a plurality of users who have input a job received by the receiving unit; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the list, which has been generated by the generation unit, to the image capturing apparatus, and the image capturing apparatus comprises: an image capturing unit configured to capture a person existing around the image forming apparatus; a determination unit configured to determine, from among feature information about a plurality of users stored in a database, feature information to be compared with feature information about the person captured by the image capturing unit based on the list that has been transmitted by the transmission unit; a comparison unit configured to compare the feature information, determined by the determination unit, with the feature information about the person captured by the image capturing unit; and a notification unit configured to notify the image forming apparatus of a comparison result by the comparison unit; and the transmission unit transmits status information about the job received by the receiving unit to the image capturing apparatus, and the image capturing apparatus changes an image capturing mode of the image capturing unit based on the status information transmitted by the transmission unit.