Data processing method in network system connected with image processing apparatus

• US 7,612,904 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2006
• Issued: 11/03/2009
• 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:
  US11/555,499
• Publication Number:
  US 20070053008A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,098 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.16, 358/442, 358/440, 358/468, 358/448, 358/434, 358/435, 358/436, 358/404, 358/407, 358/1.18
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• 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 connected to a server via a network comprising:

a reading unit configured to read an image on an original document;

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the image read by said reading unit;

a setting unit configured to set a parameter relating to the reading of the image by said reading unit or the transmission of the image by said transmitting unit;

an input unit configured to input user information;

a sending unit configured to send the user information input by said input unit to the server;

a receiving unit configured to receive setting information from the server, the setting information being stored in the server and corresponding to the user information sent by said sending unit; and

a control unit configured to control said setting unit to set the parameter based on the setting information received by said receiving unit and control said reading unit or said transmitting unit in accordance with the parameter set by said setting unit.

2. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said setting unit sets resolution relating to the reading of the image by said reading unit as the parameter.

3. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said setting unit sets destination information relating to the transmission of the image by said transmitting unit as the parameter.

4. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said setting unit sets information indicating a transmitter whose user information is input as the parameter.

5. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a first memory configured to store default setting information not identified by the user information,

wherein said setting unit sets the parameter based on the received setting information instead of the parameter set based on the default setting information when said receiving unit receives the setting information.

6. An image processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a second memory configured to store the setting information received by said receiving unit temporarily, said second memory being a volatile memory.

7. An image processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a display unit configured to display the information indicating the parameter set by said setting unit,

wherein said display unit displays information indicating the parameter based on the default setting information and information indicating the parameter based on the received setting information selectively.

8. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a request unit configured to request the server to update the setting information.

9. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

reading an image on an original document;

transmitting the read image;

setting a parameter relating to the reading or the transmission of the image;

inputting user information;

sending the input user information to a server via a network;

receiving setting information from the server, the setting information being stored in the server and corresponding to the sent user information; and

controlling to set the parameter based on the setting information received by said receiving unit and the reading or the transmission in accordance with the set parameter.

10. A computer-readable storage medium having a program stored thereon for causing a computer to perform the method according to claim 9.