Data processing method in network system connected with image processing apparatus

• US 7,154,618 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2003
• Issued: 12/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kadowaki, Toshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, TOMMY D
• Application Number:
  US10/669,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20040057068A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,188 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.12, 358/1.13, 358/1.14, 358/1.15, 358/1.18, 358/1.5, 399/1, 345/173
• US Class Current: 358/1.13
• 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. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an input unit, adapted to input image data;

a processor, adapted to perform a job based on the image data input by said input unit;

an operation unit, adapted to display an operation screen for the job to be performed by said processor and accept a user operation based on the operation screen;

an entering unit, adapted to enter identification information corresponding to a user;

a sender, adapted to send the identification information entered by said entering unit to an external server;

a receiver, adapted to receive language information identifying a language used for a term to be displayed in the operation screen of said operation unit from the external server; and

a controller, adapted to select, from among a plurality of languages, a language identified by the language information received by said receiver.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of languages includes Japanese and English.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said operation unit displays an setting screen in which the user sets a language used for the term to be displayed in the operation screen of said operation unit.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the term indicates one of a plurality of items selectable as a parameter for processing the image data inputted by said input unit.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said processor performs the job for sending the image data input by said input unit to a designated destination.

6. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

inputting image data;

performing a job based on the image data input in said inputting step;

displaying an operation screen for the job to be performed in said performing step;

accepting a user operation based on the operation screen;

entering identification information corresponding to a user;

sending the identification information entered in said entering step to an external server;

receiving language information identifying a language used for a term to be displayed in the operation screen from the external server; and

selecting, from among a plurality of languages, a language identified by the language information received in said receiving step.