Data processing method in network system connected with image processing apparatus

• US 8,194,260 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2011
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• 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, Thomas D
• Application Number:
  US13/197,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20110286029A1
• Time in Patent Office: 307 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.12, 358/1.13, 358/1.14, 358/1.15, 358/1.18, 358/1.5, 358/1.16, 358/442, 358/440, 358/468, 358/448, 358/434, 358/435, 358/436, 358/404, 358/407, 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 configured to input image data;

a processing unit configured to perform a job based on the image data input by said input unit;

an operation unit configured to display an operation screen and accept a user operation based on the operation screen;

an entering unit configured to enter a user ID; and

a control unit configured to control the operation screen for the job to be performed by said processing unit based on individual setting information corresponding to the user ID entered by said entering unit;

wherein the individual setting information includes preceding setting information which is previously used by a user of the user ID, and default setting information for the user of the user ID.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said input unit inputs the image data obtained by reading an image on a document.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said control unit controls the operation screen of a reading parameter for reading the image based on the individual setting information.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said processing unit performs a sending job for sending the image data input by said input unit to a designated destination.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said control unit controls a displayed destination list based on the individual setting information.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control unit controls a displayed language of the operation screen.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control unit controls the number of a user selectable items to be displayed on said operation unit.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control unit controls said operation unit for displaying a common operation screen without entering the user ID by said entering unit.

9. A method for controlling an image processing apparatus, comprising steps of:

inputting image data;

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

displaying an operation screen and accepting a user operation based on the operation screen;

entering a user ID; and

controlling the operation screen for the job to be performed in said performing step based on individual setting information corresponding to the user ID entered in said entering step;

wherein the individual setting information includes preceding setting information previously used by a user of the user ID, and default setting information for the user of the user ID.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program that, when executed by computer, causes the computer to perform the method according to claim 9.