Network Scanner And Network Scanning System

• US 20070156705A1
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Tsuya, Seiji
• Application Number:
  US11/614,876
• Publication Number:
  US 20070156705A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00222 details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00225 details of image data generation, e.g. scan-to-email or network scanners using an image reading device as a local input to a computer H04N1/00241
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00973 from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal

Abstract

A network scanner is connected to a personal computer via a network. The network scanner includes a specification folder into which the personal computer stores a specification data, a reading unit that scans an original in accordance with the specification data read from the specification folder so as to obtain a scanned data, and an image folder that stores the scanned data. The personal computer accesses the network scanner to obtain the scanned data from the image folder.

Claims

1. A network scanner comprising:

a first network folder that stores a specification data;

a reading unit that reads the specification data from the first network folder;

a scanning unit that scans an original in accordance with the specification data read from the first network folder, thereby obtaining a scanned data;

a second network folder; and

a storage controlling unit that stores the scanned data into the second network folder.

2. The network scanner according to claim 1, wherein the specification data specifies scanning conditions, and the scanning unit scans the original according to the scanning conditions specified in the specification data.

3. The network scanner according to claim 1, wherein the specification data includes an identifier, and the storage controlling unit attaches the identifier to the scanned data and stores the scanned data attached with the identifier into the second network folder.

4. The network scanner according to claim 1, wherein the specification data includes an identifier, and the storage controlling unit stores the scanned data into the second network folder that is identified by the identifier.

5. The network scanner according to claim 1, further comprising a start command receiving unit that receives a start command, wherein the scanning unit starts scanning the original when the specification data is stored in the first network folder and the start command receiving unit has received the start command.

6. The network scanner according to claim 1, further comprising an access controlling unit that prohibits access to the first network folder when any specification data is stored in the first network folder.

7. The network scanner according to claim 1, further comprising a notifying unit that issues a notification that a scan job is queued when the specification data is stored in the first network folder.

8. The network scanner according to claim 1, further comprising an interface that is connected to an external device via a network and a notifying unit that notifies the external device that scanning is complete when the scanning unit has completed scanning the original, wherein the specification data is stored into the first network folder by the external device via the network.

9. The network scanner according to claim 1, further comprising a deleting unit that deletes the specification data from the first network folder after scanning according to the specification data has completed.

10. A network scanning system comprising:

a scanner that scans an original;

a storage device connected to the scanner, the storage device including;

a first network folder that stores a specification data;

a reading unit that reads the specification data from the first network folder;

a scan controlling unit that controls the scanner to scan the original in accordance with the specification data read from the first network folder, thereby obtaining a scanned data;

a second network folder; and

a storage controlling unit that stores the scanned data into the second network folder; and

a terminal device that is connected to the storage device via a network, the terminal device including a specification data inputting unit that stores the specification data into the first network folder via the network.

11. The network scanning system according to claim 10, wherein the specification data specifies scanning conditions, and the scanning unit scans the original according to the scanning conditions specified in the specification data.

12. The network scanning system according to claim 10, wherein the specification data includes an identifier, and the storage controlling unit attaches the identifier to the scanned data and stores the scanned data attached with the identifier into the second network folder.

13. The network scanning system according to claim 10, wherein the specification data includes an identifier, and the storage controlling unit stores the scanned data into the second network folder that is identified by the identifier.

14. The network scanning system according to claim 10, wherein the storage device further includes a start command receiving unit that receives a start command, wherein the scan controlling unit controls the scanning unit to scan the original when the specification data is stored in the first network folder and the start command receiving unit has received the start command.

15. The network scanning system according to claim 10, wherein the storage device includes an access controlling unit that prohibits other terminal devices from accessing the first network folder when the terminal device has placed the specification data in the first network folder.

16. The network scanning system according to claim 10, wherein the storage device further includes a notifying unit that issues a notification that a scan job is queued when the specification data is stored in the first network folder.

17. The network scanning system according to claim 10, wherein the storage device further includes a notifying unit that notifies the terminal device that scanning is complete when the scanning unit has completed scanning the original.