An image reading apparatus which is capable of preventing occurrence of a paper jam and poor stacking during conveyance of originals. The image reading apparatus sets a type of an original, conveys the original based on the set type of the original, and reads an image on the conveyed original. An original detecting sensor detects placement of the original on an original tray. An LCD touch panel displays an object for setting a type of the original in response to the detection by the original detecting sensor.

An image forming apparatus includes a CPU. When an error occurs, the CPU notifies a user or the like of the error and adds information about the error to an error table. When the error is resolved, the CPU deletes the information about the resolved error from the error table. The CPU refers to the error table and displays, on a display, a home screen in which a badge indicating the number of unresolved errors in each operation mode is displayed. When a mode selection button on which the badge is displayed is touched, the CPU re-notifies the user of the unresolved errors.

An image forming apparatus includes a paper transport unit, an image forming unit, a reading unit, a foreign matter detection signal generation circuit, and a foreign matter detection control circuit. The foreign matter detection signal generation circuit generates a first foreign matter detection signal, based on an analog image signal to be output from a line sensor. In foreign matter detection processing, when a pixel that reads foreign matter continues by a specific first consecutive number or more in a signal based on the analog image signal of each pixel to be output from the line sensor, the foreign matter detection signal generation circuit sets a level of the first foreign matter detection signal to a level indicating the presence of foreign matter.

An image reading apparatus which is capable of preventing occurrence of a paper jam and poor stacking during conveyance of originals. The image reading apparatus sets a type of an original, conveys the original based on the set type of the original, and reads an image on the conveyed original. An original detecting sensor detects placement of the original on an original tray. An LCD touch panel displays an object for setting a type of the original in response to the detection by the original detecting sensor.

A diagnostic apparatus includes a first acquiring unit that acquires sound information, a second acquiring unit that acquires operation information indicating a component in operation among a plurality of components of an analysis target apparatus, and a display unit that, when the acquired sound information is reproduced, displays operating states of the plurality of components at the time point when the reproduced sound is acquired, using the operation information.

The present invention offers a server system including a transmission unit configured to, based on error information acquired, transmitting audio notification information for causing an audio control device to audibly notify a user of information about an error occurring in a communication apparatus. Control is performed such that, in a case where a plurality of errors is occurring in the communication apparatus, based on the audio notification information transmitted, information about a first error from among the plurality of errors is audibly notified to the user by the audio control device, and information about a second error different from the first error from among the plurality of errors is not audibly notified to the user by the audio control device.

An image forming apparatus includes a CPU. When an error occurs, the CPU notifies a user or the like of the error and adds information about the error to an error table. When the error is resolved, the CPU deletes the information about the resolved error from the error table. The CPU refers to the error table and displays, on a display, a home screen in which a badge indicating the number of unresolved errors in each operation mode is displayed. When a mode selection button on which the badge is displayed is touched, the CPU re-notifies the user of the unresolved errors.

A mobile terminal apparatus receives a setting reference value set of plural setting items for an image forming apparatus from a management server, and transmits it to the image forming apparatus using near field wireless communication. The image forming apparatus determines a setting item of which a current setting value is different from the setting reference value, and transmits through the near field wireless communication to the mobile terminal apparatus adjustment item data that indicates the determined setting item, the setting reference value and the current setting value. The mobile terminal apparatus displays the received adjustment item data, and transmits through the near field wireless communication to the image forming apparatus an adjustment instruction that indicates a setting value of a setting item specified by a user in the adjustment item data. The image forming apparatus changes a setting value in accordance with the received adjustment instruction.

An image reading apparatus which is capable of preventing occurrence of a paper jam and poor stacking during conveyance of originals. The image reading apparatus sets a type of an original, conveys the original based on the set type of the original, and reads an image on the conveyed original. An original detecting sensor detects placement of the original on an original tray. An LCD touch panel displays an object for setting a type of the original in response to the detection by the original detecting sensor.

An image forming apparatus 102 that can flexibly cope with control command incompatibility caused by peripheral parts of the microcomputer device 103 to expand the function of the image forming apparatus 102. A status management unit 162 manages the state of the image forming apparatus 102, and a microcomputer command processing unit 181 communicates with the microcomputer device 103 attached to the image forming apparatus 102. The microcomputer command processing unit 181 receives request data from the microcomputer device 103 and transmits response data to the microcomputer device 103. Then, the microcomputer command processing unit 181 acquires the state of the image forming apparatus 102 from the status management unit 162 based on the received request data, and determines response data according to the acquired state of the image forming apparatus 102.