Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium having computer executable program stored therein

• US 20070297002A1
• Filed: 11/27/2006
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Hase, Junichi, Ando, Kimie, Shozaki, Toshiya, Ozawa, Kaitaku
• Granted Patent: US 8,045,192 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/608 Secure printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/164 at the network layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/166 at the transport layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• 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 1/444 to a particular document or image or part thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4486 using digital data encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3204 of data relating to a user, sender, addressee, machine or electronic recording medium H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3276 of a customised additional information profile, e.g. a profile specific to a user ID

Abstract

An image processing apparatus disclosed in the present application includes a destination designation receiving unit that receives a designation of a destination to which image data is transmitted; a security information acquiring unit that acquires security information of the destination; and an image data transmitting unit that transmits the image data to the destination, using the security information acquired by the security information acquiring unit.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a destination designation receiving unit that receives a designation of a destination to which image data is transmitted;

a security information acquiring unit that acquires security information of the destination; and

an image data transmitting unit that transmits the image data to the destination, using the security information acquired by the security information acquiring unit.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the security information acquiring unit acquires the security information from information that has been shared with other image processing apparatuses in advance.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image data encrypting unit that encrypts, referring to the security information, the image data to be transmitted by the image data transmitting unit.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the security information includes a password of the destination.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the destination designation receiving unit receives a designation of a destination user as the destination, and

the security information acquiring unit acquires a security setting that has been set for the destination user, and acquires the security information in accordance with the acquired security setting.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the security setting includes information relating to a password setting method applied in the transmission of the image data.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the security setting includes information relating to an encryption method of the image data.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

a transmission of the image data is not performed when the security setting is unable to be acquired.

9. A recording medium having a computer executable program stored therein, the program having a computer execute the processes including:

a destination designation receiving process in which a designation of a destination to which image data is transmitted is received;

a security information acquiring process in which security information of the destination is acquired; and

an image data transmitting process in which the image data is transmitted to the destination, using the security information acquired in the security information acquiring process.

10. The recording medium according to claim 9, wherein

in the security information acquiring process, the security information is acquired from information that has been shared with other image processing apparatuses in advance.

11. The recording medium according to claim 9, the program having the computer further execute:

an image data encrypting process in which the image data to be transmitted in the image data transmitting process is encrypted referring to the security information.

12. The recording medium according to claim 9, wherein

the security information includes a password of the destination.

13. The recording medium according to claim 9, wherein

in the destination designation receiving process, a designation of a destination user is received as the destination, and

in the security information acquiring process, a security setting is acquired that has been set for the destination user, and the security information is acquired in accordance with the acquired security setting.

14. The recording medium according to claim 13, wherein

the security setting includes information relating to a password setting method applied in the transmission of the image data.

15. The recording medium according to claim 13, wherein

the security setting includes information relating to an encryption method of the image data.

16. The recording medium according to claim 13, wherein

in the image data transmitting process, the image data is not transmitted when the security setting is unable to be acquired.

17. An image data transmitting method comprising the steps of

receiving a designation of a destination to which image data is transmitted;

acquiring security information of the destination; and

transmitting the image data to the destination using the acquired security information.