IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20120081734A1
• Filed: 09/15/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ikeda, Toru
• Granted Patent: US 9,060,080 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0015 Control of image communication with the connected apparatus, e.g. signalling capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

Provided is an apparatus that includes a generation unit configured to generate image data based on a document read via a scanner unit and a first transmission unit configured to transmit the generated image data to a designated destination. The apparatus includes a transmission server, an instruction unit configured to instruct, according to reception of an uploading request to upload the generated image data to an external server communicable with the apparatus, the first transmission unit to transmit the image data to the transmission server and a second transmission unit configured to acquire the image data transmitted by the first transmission unit according to the instruction from the instruction unit from the transmission server, and transmit the acquired image data to the external server.

Claims

1. An apparatus including a generation unit configured to generate image data based on a document read via a scanner unit and a first transmission unit configured to transmit the generated image data to a designated destination, the apparatus comprising:

a transmission server;

an instruction unit configured to instruct, according to reception of an uploading request to upload the generated image data to an external server communicable with the apparatus, the first transmission unit to transmit the image data to the transmission server; and

a second transmission unit configured to acquire the generated image data, according to an instruction from the instruction unit, from the transmission server, and transmit the acquired image data to the external server.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a management unit configured to store transmission history of the image data by the second transmission unit as history of an uploading request.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a display unit configured to display, when an instruction to read transmission history of the image data by the first transmission unit is received, the transmission history of the image data by the second transmission unit stored by the management unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the management unit stores transmission history when the first transmission unit transmits the image data to the transmission server as a first history, and when the second transmission unit transmits the image data to the external server, replaces the first history with a second history that is the transmission history of the image data by the second transmission unit to store the second history.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the management unit stores a reception number issued when the first transmission unit transmits the image data to the transmission server in association with the first history, and replaces, when the second history and the reception number are acquired, the first history corresponding to the acquired reception number with the acquired second history to store the second history.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the first history contains at least a URL of the transmission server, and the second history contains a URL of the external server.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

the management unit stores purport indicating incompletion of processing according to the uploading request when the first history is stored, and purport indicating completion of the processing corresponding to the uploading request when the second history is stored; and

the display unit displays, when history is read at a time of incompletion of the processing corresponding to the uploading request, both of the first history and the purport indicating incompletion of the processing corresponding to the uploading request, and displays, when the history is read after completion of the processing corresponding to the uploading request, both of the second history and the purport indicating completion of the processing corresponding to the uploading request.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein:

when the second transmission unit fails to transmit the image data, the management unit stores the second history and purport indicating a failure of the processing corresponding to the uploading request; and

the display unit displays both of the second history and purport indicating the failure of the processing corresponding to the uploading request.

9. A method for controlling an apparatus, comprising:

generating image data based on a document read via a scanner unit by a generation unit;

transmitting the generated image data to a designated destination by a first transmission unit;

instructing, according to reception of an uploading request to upload the generated image data in an external server communicable with the apparatus, the first transmission unit to transmit the image data to a transmission server included in the apparatus by an instruction unit; and

acquiring the generated image data, according to the instruction from the instruction unit, from the transmission server, and transmitting the acquired image data to the external server by a second transmission unit that performs data communication with the external server.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising storing transmission history of the image data by the second transmission unit as history of an uploading request.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising displaying, when an instruction to read transmission history of the image data by the first transmission unit is received, the transmission history of the image data by the second transmission unit.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

storing transmission history when the first transmission unit transmits the image data to the transmission server as a first history; and

replacing the first history with a second history that is the transmission history of the image data by the second transmission unit to store the second history when the second transmission unit transmits the image data to the external server.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising:

storing a reception number issued when the first transmission unit transmits the image data to the transmission server in association with the first history; and

replacing, when the second history and the reception number are acquired, the first history corresponding to the acquired reception number with the acquired second history to store the second history.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the first history contains at least a URL of the transmission server, and the second history contains a URL of the external server.

15. A storage medium for storing a program to cause an apparatus to implement the control method according to claim 9.

16. The storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the method further comprises storing transmission history of the image data by the second transmission unit as history of an uploading request.

17. The storage medium according to claim 16, wherein the method further comprises displaying, when an instruction to read transmission history of the image data by the first transmission unit is received, the transmission history of the image data by the second transmission unit.

18. The storage medium according to claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:

storing transmission history when the first transmission unit transmits the image data to the transmission server as a first history; and

replacing the first history with a second history that is the transmission history of the image data by the second transmission unit to store the second history when the second transmission unit transmits the image data to the external server.

19. The storage medium according to claim 18, wherein the method further comprises:

storing a reception number issued when the first transmission unit transmits the image data to the transmission server in association with the first history; and

replacing, when the second history and the reception number are acquired, the first history corresponding to the acquired reception number with the acquired second history to store the second history.

20. The storage medium according to claim 19, wherein the first history contains at least a URL of the transmission server, and the second history contains a URL of the external server.