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

• US 20160301824A1
• Filed: 03/04/2016
• Published: 10/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shibao, Mayumi
• Granted Patent: US 10,079,955 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00106 using land mobile radio networks, e.g. mobile telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00212 Attaching image data to computer messages, e.g. to e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00236 using an image reading or reproducing device, e.g. a facsimile reader or printer, as a local input to or local output from a computer image input to or image output from a computer via a network H04N1/00209
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32112 in a separate computer file, document page or paper sheet, e.g. a fax cover sheet H04N1/32122 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An image processing apparatus of the present invention displays a transmission setting screen for a user to set a transmission destination of image data, and when a transmission instruction is received from a user, transmits the image data to a destination set via the transmission setting screen. Meanwhile, if destination information is received from an external apparatus, a screen displayed on a display unit is changed to a transmission setting screen, and a destination designated by the received the destination information is set as a transmission destination of the image data.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus for transmitting image data to a set destination, the apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display a transmission setting screen for a user to set a transmission destination of the image data;

a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to a destination set via the transmission setting screen when a transmission instruction is received from a user;

a reception unit configured to receive destination information from an external apparatus; and

a control unit configured to, in a case where the reception unit receives the destination information, change a screen that the display unit displays to the transmission setting screen and set as the transmission destination of the image data a destination designated by the destination information.

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

a determination unit configured to, in a case where the reception unit receives the destination information, determine whether or not the display unit is displaying the transmission setting screen,

wherein, if it is determined by the determination unit that the display unit is not displaying the transmission setting screen, the control unit changes a screen that the display unit displays to the transmission setting screen, and sets as the destination of the image data a destination designated by the destination information, and

if it is determined by the determination unit that the display unit is displaying the transmission setting screen, the control unit, without changing a screen that the display unit displays, sets as the destination of the image data a destination designated by the destination information.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reception unit further receives subject information and body information in addition to the destination information, and

the setting unit further sets a subject designated by the subject information and a body designated by the body information.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a reading unit configured to read an original to generate image data,

wherein the transmission unit transmits an electronic mail to which the image data generated by the reading unit has been attached to a destination set via the transmission setting screen.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the reception unit further receives attachment file name information in addition to the destination information, and

a name of the image data attached to the electronic mail is set to a name designated by the attachment file name information.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reception unit receives the destination information from the external apparatus via a wireless LAN communication.

7. A method of controlling an image processing apparatus for transmitting image data to a set destination, the method comprising:

displaying a transmission setting screen on a display unit for a user to set a transmission destination of the image data;

transmitting the image data to a destination set via the transmission setting screen when a transmission instruction is received from a user;

receiving destination information from an external apparatus; and

in a case where the destination information is received in the receiving, changing a screen that the display unit displays to the transmission setting screen and setting as the transmission destination of the image data a destination designated by the destination information.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a processor to execute a method of controlling an image processing apparatus for transmitting image data to a set destination, the method comprising:

displaying a transmission setting screen on a display unit for a user to set a transmission destination of the image data;

transmitting the image data to a destination set via the transmission setting screen when a transmission instruction is received from a user;

receiving destination information from an external apparatus; and

in a case where the destination information is received in the receiving, changing a screen that the display unit displays to the transmission setting screen and setting as the transmission destination of the image data a destination designated by the destination information.