Image reader

• US 20060265743A1
• Filed: 05/12/2004
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Nakajima, Toshiki, Kitagawa, Koichi, Kusunoki, Tadakazu, Kutsuwada, Daisuke, Kanemitsu, Norio
• Application Number:
  US10/555,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20060265743A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/21
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0084 Determining the necessity for prevention
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00854 Recognising an unauthorised user or user-associated action
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00867 with additional data, e.g. by adding a warning message details of embedding additional information in an image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4413 involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4426 involving separate means, e.g. a server, a magnetic card

Abstract

An image reader (100) has a removable memory device (2) which stores authentication information for performing identity authentication of a user. An image reader body (1) has an authentication processing unit (6) performing the identity authentication to identify whether a user is the authorized person by checking authentication information (8) stored in the removable memory device (2) and registered authentication information (9) in advance in the image reader (100) with each other. Only when the authentication by the authentication processing unit (6) is successful, a document (3) is read by using the image reader (100), and a digital signature or approval information is added to image data (15) which has been read.

Claims

1. An image reader for optically reading a document as an image in a electronic form, the image reader comprising:

a removable memory device provided on the image reader removably and storing authentication information for performing identity authentication;

an authentication processing unit performing identity authentication by using the authentication information stored in the removable memory device; and

an approval image addition unit adding an image showing completion of approval such as an image of a seal impression, signature or logotype to an image of the document which is read by the image reader

wherein, when a predetermined mark written on the document is detected from the image of the document which is read by the image reader, the approval image addition unit adding the image showing completion of approval adds the image showing completion of approval whose color, size or the like is changed according to a content of the mark.

9. The image reader according to claim 1, wherein, when a predetermined mark written on the document is detected from the image of the document which is read by the image reader, the approval image addition unit adding the image showing completion of approval adds one of a plurality of types of images showing completion of approval according to a content of the mark.

12. The image reader according to claim 1, further comprising:

a format determination unit recognizing a format of an image of the document which is read by the image reader; and

an image data storage processing unit storing the image of the document which is read by the image reader,

wherein the removable memory device stores information specifying a storage destination of the image of the document which is read by the image reader according to a format of the document, and

wherein the image data storage processing unit stores the image of the document which is read by the image reader in the specified storage destination according to the format recognized by the format determination unit and the information specifying the storage destination.

13. The image reader according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image data storage processing unit storing an image of the document which is read by the image reader,

wherein the removable memory device stores information specifying a storage destination of the image of the document which is read by the image reader according to a predetermined content of a mark, and

wherein, when the mark written on the document is detected, the image data storage processing unit stores the image of the document which is read by the image reader in the specified storage destination according to the predetermined content of the mark and the information specifying the storage destination.

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11. (canceled)