DATA PROCESSING METHOD IN NETWORK SYSTEM CONNECTED WITH IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20090310148A1
• Filed: 06/12/2009
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kadowaki, Toshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,014,019 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.600
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0035 User-machine interface; Control console input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00352 Input means H04N1/00411 takes precedence; input arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00395 Arrangements for reducing operator input input arrangements for job or mode instructions or parameters H04N1/00962; intelligent menu interfaces H04N1/00437
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00498 Multi-lingual facilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00503 Customising to a particular machine or model, machine function or application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00514 for individual users
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00517 involving favourite or frequently used settings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00962 Input arrangements for operating instructions or parameters, e.g. updating internal software program loading in general G06F9/445; network-specific protocols involving the movement of software or configuration parameters H04L67/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00973 from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32561 using a programmed control device, e.g. a microprocessor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence

Abstract

When an ID card (41, 81) including user ID stored therein is set in an image processing apparatus (1, 71), the user ID is read out of the IC card. Upon depression of a key instructing individual setting, ID information including the user ID and apparatus ID is transmitted to a computer terminal (3; 3-1, 3-2) which stores a plurality of user ID'"'"'s and setting information corresponding to the apparatus. Responding to the ID information transmitted, the computer terminal transmits individual setting information stored therein for each user back to the image processing apparatus, whereupon the apparatus stores the individual setting information in a memory and realizes the individual setting for each user, which corresponds to the set user ID, in a control panel (8) of the apparatus.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. An image processing apparatus connected to a server via a network, comprising:

a image data transmission unit configured to transmit image data;

a recognition unit configured to recognize a user ID;

a user ID transmission unit configured to transmit the recognized user ID to the server in order to acquire information corresponding to the recognized user ID;

a receiving unit configured to receive the information corresponding to the recognized user ID from the server; and

a setting unit configured to set the received information as transmission source information of the image data to be transmitted by said image data transmission unit.

12. An image processing apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a storing unit configured to store common information, wherein, when the information corresponding to the recognized user ID is not used, said setting unit sets the common information stored in said storing unit as the transmission source information of the image data transmitted by said image data transmission unit.

13. An image processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said image data transmission unit transmits the image data together with the information set by said setting unit.

14. An image processing apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a creating unit configured to create a cover page on which the information set by said setting unit is described as the transmission source information.

15. An image processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said image data transmission unit transmits the image data via facsimile communication.

16. An image processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said image data transmission unit transmits the image data via the network.

17. An image processing apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a display unit configured to display the received information.

18. A control method for an image processing apparatus connected to a server via a network, comprising:

recognizing a user ID;

transmitting the recognized user ID to the server in order to acquire information corresponding to the recognized user ID;

receiving the information corresponding to the recognized user ID from the server; and

setting the received information as transmission source information of image data which is to be transmitted.

19. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program codes stored thereon that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a control method comprising:

recognizing a user ID;

transmitting the recognized user ID to the server in order to acquire information corresponding to the recognized user ID;

receiving the information corresponding to the recognized user ID from the server; and

setting the received information as transmission source information of image data which is to be transmitted.