Data processing apparatus for generating reduced images of transmission images or reduced data of transmission data in list form and control method thereof

• US 7,587,460 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2001
• Issued: 09/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Saito, Kazuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Etienne; Ario
• Assistant Examiner(s): Halim; Sahera
• Application Number:
  US09/983,100
• Publication Number:
  US 20020052974A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,877 Days
• Field of Search: 709/205, 709/207, 709/204, 709/176, 709/208, 709/209, 709/119, 358/2.1, 382/176
• US Class Current: 709/207
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC

Abstract

Read images are stored and images to be transmitted are selected. When the selected images are transmitted, list data listing a group of reduced images of the images is generated. The generated list data is printed, displayed, or otherwise output, allowing a user to readily check the transmitted images.

Claims

1. A data processing apparatus, comprising:

a storage unit including a plurality of storage areas, each being assigned identification information identifying the storage area, and each being configured to store one or more images;

a first selection unit configured to select a plurality of images from among images stored in at least one storage area selected from among the plurality of storage areas of said storage unit in response to an operation on an operation unit;

a transmission unit configured to transmit the plurality of images selected by said first selection unit;

a designation unit configured to designate a number of thumbnails to be presented on each page of a thumbnail list to be generated as an image transmission history in response to an operation on the operation unit;

a thumbnail generation unit configured to generate thumbnails of the plurality of images selected by said first selection unit, and also configured to extract thumbnails from the plurality of images selected by said first selection unit when said transmission unit transmits the plurality of images;

a thumbnail list generation unit configured to generate a thumbnail list that consists of thumbnails of the plurality of selected images using the thumbnails generated or extracted by said thumbnail generation unit in accordance with the number of thumbnails designated by said designation unit, sizes of the thumbnails presented on the thumbnail list being automatically adjusted based on the number of thumbnails designated by said designation unit, the thumbnail list being provided for each transmitted image with (a) transmission time information and destination information for the transmitted image and (b) the identification information for the storage area storing the transmitted image; and

a print unit configured to print the thumbnail list generated by said thumbnail list generation unit so as to allow the user to check the plurality of images transmitted by said transmission unit,

wherein said thumbnail list generation unit generates the thumbnail list and said print unit prints the thumbnail list in response to a transmission of the plurality of selected images by said transmission unit.

2. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission time information contains at least one of:

a transmission date and a transmission time.

3. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second selection unit configured to select whether printing by said print unit should be performed.

4. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said generation unit generates a number of pages of an image list according to the number of said thumbnails listed in one page.

5. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit configured to set a quantity of thumbnails to be listed in one page.

6. The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit configured to set a size of the thumbnails.

7. A method of controlling an image processing apparatus having a storage unit including a plurality of storage areas, each being assigned identification information identifying the storage area, and each being configured to store one or more images, the method comprising steps of:

selecting a plurality of images from among images stored in at least one storage area selected from among the plurality of storage areas of the storage unit in response to an operation on an operation unit;

transmitting the plurality of images selected in said selecting step;

designating a number of thumbnails to be presented on each page of a thumbnail list to be generated as an image transmission history in response to an operation on the operation unit;

generating thumbnails of the plurality of images selected in said selecting step or extracting thumbnails from the plurality of images selected in said selecting step when said transmission step transmits the plurality of images;

generating a thumbnail list that consists of thumbnails of the plurality of selected images using the thumbnails generated or extracted in said thumbnail generating step in accordance with the number of thumbnails designated in said designating step, sizes of the thumbnails presented on the thumbnail list being automatically adjusted based on the number of thumbnails designated in said designating step, the thumbnail list being provided for each transmitted image with (a) information indicating a transmission time and a destination for the transmitted image and (b) the identification information for the storage area storing the transmitted image; and

printing the thumbnail list generated in said thumbnail list generating step so as to allow the user to check the plurality of images transmitted in said transmitting step,

wherein said step of generating the thumbnail list and said step of printing the thumbnail list are performed in response to a transmission of the plurality of images.