Image input/output control apparatus and image input/output system

• US 20010052037A1
• Filed: 06/13/2001
• Published: 12/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Kobuchi, Yasuhiro, Terasaki, Yoshitaka
• Granted Patent: US 6,976,101 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/65
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00236 using an image reading or reproducing device, e.g. a facsimile reader or printer, as a local input to or local output from a computer image input to or image output from a computer via a network H04N1/00209
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00238 using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer output via network, e.g. network printing H04N1/00233
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00241 using an image reading device as a local input to a computer input via network, e.g. network scanners H04N1/00225
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00416 Multi-level menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00427 using a menu list H04N1/00421, H04N1/00424, H04N1/00429 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00472 using a pop-up window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/34 for coin-freed systems ; Pay systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0075 by a user operated remote control device, e.g. receiving instructions from a user via a computer terminal or mobile telephone handset

Abstract

In an image input/output system, an image input/output control apparatus is interposed between an image input/output apparatus and an information terminal apparatus. Data exchange is performed between a first transmitting/receiving section of the image input/output control apparatus and a transmitting/receiving section of the image input/output apparatus as well as between the second transmitting/receiving section of the image input/output control apparatus and a transmitting/receiving section of the information terminal apparatus. The first transmitting/receiving section and the second transmitting/receiving section are isolated from each other physically. Under the control of the control section of the image input/output control apparatus, data received by one of the first transmitting/receiving section and the second transmitting/receiving section is transmitted by the other. User interfaces relating to image input/output of the image input/output apparatus are provided by a user interface providing section of the image input/output control apparatus.

Claims

1. An image input and output control apparatus comprising:

a first transmitting and receiving section that transmits and receives data to and from an image input and output apparatus that performs image input and output;

a second transmitting and receiving section that transmits and receives data to and from an information terminal apparatus that stores data to be handled by the image input and output apparatus in performing image input or output; and

a control section that causes data received by one of the first transmitting and receiving section and the second transmitting and receiving section to be transmitted from the other.

2. The image input and output control apparatus according to

claim 1

, further comprising a user interface providing section that provides a user interface relating to the image input and output of the image input and output apparatus.

3. An image input and output system comprising:

an image input and output apparatus that performs image input and output;

an information terminal apparatus that stores data to be handled by the image input and output apparatus in performing image input or output; and

the image input and output control apparatus according to

claim 1

that transmits and receives data to and from each of the image input and output apparatus and the information terminal apparatus.

4. The image input and output system according to

claim 3

, further comprising a billing apparatus that charges, in accordance with image input or output processing of the image input and output apparatus, a user who has performed image input or output using the information terminal apparatus.

5. The image input/output control apparatus according to

claim 1

, wherein the control section causes, in causing the data received by one of the first transmitting and receiving section and the second transmitting and receiving section to be transmitted from the other, the data to be converted into a data format suitable for a transmission destination apparatus.