MEETING SYSTEM INCLUDING DISPLAY DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS CONNECTED THERETO, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS CONNECTED TO DISPLAY DEVICE, DATA OUTPUT METHOD, AND DATA OUTPUT PROGRAM

• US 20090044251A1
• Filed: 08/04/2008
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakata, Hironobu, Sawayanagi, Kazumi, Tokimoto, Yoshiki, Otake, Toshihiko, Kawabata, Hiroyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,368,740 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

In order to prevent leakage of confidential data, a meeting system includes a MFP and a projector. The MFP includes a data obtaining portion to obtain data, a participant information obtaining portion to obtain user identification information as participant information, an access permission determination portion and an output permission determination portion to determine whether or not a user identified by the participant information can access the obtained data, to determine that the obtained data can be output if the determination result shows that all the meeting participants can access the obtained data, and to determine that the obtained data cannot be output if any one of the meeting participants cannot access the obtained data, and an output portion to output data on condition that it is determined by the output permission determination portion that data can be output. The display device displays an image based on the data output from the data processing apparatus.

Claims

1. A meeting system including a data processing apparatus and a display device,

said data processing apparatus comprising:

a data obtaining portion to obtain data;

a participant information obtaining portion to obtain user identification information for identifying a user as participant information indicating a meeting participant;

an access permission determination portion to determine whether or not a user identified by said participant information can access said obtained data, based on said participant information;

an output permission determination portion to determine that said obtained data can be output, if all of said meeting participants can access said obtained data, as a result of determination by said access permission determination portion, and to determine that said obtained data cannot be output, if any one of said meeting participants cannot access said obtained data; and

an output portion to output said data to said display device on condition that it is determined by said output permission determination portion that said data can be output, wherein

said display device displays an image based on the data output from said data processing apparatus.

2. A data processing apparatus connected to a display device to display an image, comprising:

a data obtaining portion to obtain data;

a participant information obtaining portion to obtain user identification information for identifying a user as participant information indicating a meeting participant;

an access permission determination portion to determine whether or not a user identified by said participant information can access said obtained data, based on said participant information;

an output permission determination portion to determine that said obtained data can be output, if all of said meeting participants can access said obtained data, as a result of determination by said access permission determination portion, and to determine that said obtained data cannot be output, if any one of said meeting participants cannot access said obtained data; and

an output portion to output said data to said display device on condition that it is determined by said output permission determination portion that said data can be output.

3. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an image reading portion to read an image; and

a combination portion to generate combination data by combining an image read by said image reading portion with an image of data obtained by said data obtaining portion, wherein

said output portion outputs said combination data.

4. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a document reading portion to read a document image formed on a recording medium, wherein

said data obtaining portion obtains data obtained by said document reading portion reading a document image.

5. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein if it is determined by said access permission determination portion that any one of said meeting participants cannot access said obtained data, said output permission determination portion determines that said data can be output on condition that an instruction to permit an output is accepted from a user that can access said obtained data, among said meeting participants.

6. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an authentication portion to authenticate a user; and

a proxy authentication information storage portion to store proxy authentication information which relates user identification information with proxy information, wherein

if said proxy information is accepted and authentication with the proxy information is successful, said authentication portion authenticates as a user having said user identification information related to the proxy information by said proxy authentication information, and

if authentication with said proxy information by said authentication portion is successful, said data obtaining portion obtains data that can be accessed by the user having said user identification information related to said proxy information by said proxy authentication information.

7. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said participant information obtaining portion obtains said user identification information obtained together with data obtained by said data obtaining portion.

8. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a data storage portion having a plurality of storage regions to store data in said plurality of storage regions, wherein

said data obtaining portion obtains said data from any one of said plurality of storage regions of said data storage portion, and

said access permission determination portion determines whether or not a user identified by said participant information can access said storage region in which data obtained by said data obtaining portion is stored.

9. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said participant information obtaining portion obtains user identification information included in a participant list stored beforehand.

10. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said participant information obtaining portion is connected to a user recognition apparatus accepting user identification information of a user to obtain said user identification information accepted by said user recognition apparatus.

11. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a biometric information obtaining portion to obtain biometric information of a user; and

a user information storage portion to store a pair of user identification information and biometric information, wherein

said participant information obtaining portion obtains user identification information of the same pair as biometric information obtained by said biometric information obtaining portion.

12. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said participant information obtaining portion obtains said participant information for each of a plurality of destinations of said obtained data,

said output permission determination portion determines whether said data can be output or not, for each of said plurality of destinations, and

said output portion outputs said data to a destination determined by said output permission determination portion that said data can be output, among said plurality of destinations.

13. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when new participant information is obtained by said participant information obtaining portion after said output portion outputs said obtained data, it is determined by said access permission determination portion that a user identified by said new participant information cannot access said obtained data, and it is determined by said output permission determination portion that said obtained data cannot be output based on that any one of said meeting participants including said new participant information cannot access said obtained data, said output portion outputs again predetermined data in place of said obtained data.

14. A data output method performed in a data processing apparatus connected to a display device to display an image, comprising the steps of

obtaining data for display;

obtaining user identification information for identifying a user as participant information indicating a meeting participant;

determining whether or not a user identified by said participant information can access said obtained data, based on said participant information;

if all of said meeting participants can access said obtained data, as a result of determination in said step of determining whether to access, determining that said obtained data can be output, and if any one of said meeting participants cannot access said obtained data, determining that said obtained data cannot be output; and

outputting said data to said display device on condition that it is determined, in said step of determining whether to output, that said data can be output.

15. A data output program embodied on a computer readable medium for causing a computer, which controls a data processing apparatus connected to a display device to display an image, to execute processing including the steps of:

obtaining data for display;

obtaining user identification information for identifying a user as participant information indicating a meeting participant;

determining whether or not a user identified by said participant information can access said obtained data, based on said participant information;

if all of said meeting participants can access said obtained data, as a result of determination in said step of determining whether to access, determining that said obtained data can be output, and if any one of said meeting participants cannot access said obtained data, determining that said obtained data cannot be output; and

outputting said data to said display device on condition that it is determined, in said step of determining whether to output, that said data can be output.