Image processing system, information processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and computer program

• US 8,334,998 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2008
• Issued: 12/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Poon, King
• Assistant Examiner(s): Menberu, Beniyam
• Application Number:
  US12/024,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20080186536A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,782 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.9, 358/1.15, 358/501, 358/505, 358/523, 358/524, 358/401, 358/403
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1293 Printer information exchange with computer
• 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 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00795 Reading arrangements details of scanning heads H04N1/024; scanning arrangements therefor H04N1/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00811 according to user specified instructions, e.g. user selection of reading mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00822 Selecting or setting a particular reading mode, e.g. from amongst a plurality of modes, simplex or duplex, or high or low resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00824 for displaying or indicating, e.g. a condition or state details of displaying or indicating means H04N1/00405
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0041 Point to point H04N2201/0039 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0043 Point to multipoint H04N2201/0039 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• 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 information processing apparatus acquires communication setting information for communicating with an image processing apparatus by a second communication unit via a first communication unit. In accordance with the acquired communication setting information, communication by the second communication unit is established to execute, via the second communication unit, an image processing service provided by the image processing apparatus. When establishment of communication is detected, an operation window display request for executing the image processing service is transmitted via the second communication unit. The image processing apparatus receives the operation window display request from the information processing apparatus via the second communication unit. In accordance with the received operation window display request, an operation window for executing the image processing service is displayed. Image processing for input image data is executed on the basis of the settings set via the displayed operation window.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus configured to communicate with an image processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a first communication unit configured to start wireless communication by placing the information processing apparatus on a device port of the image processing apparatus;

a second communication unit configured to start wireless communication without placing the information processing apparatus on a device port of the image processing apparatus,

wherein a transmission rate of the second communication unit is higher than a transmission rate of the first communication unit;

an acquisition unit configured to acquire, via wireless communication by the first communication unit, information from the image processing apparatus to determine whether a scan service provided by the image processing apparatus comprising a scanner unit can be communicated; and

a display unit configured to display an icon indicating that the scan service can be accessed when it is determined that the scan service can be communicated, and an icon indicting that the scan service cannot be accessed when it is determined that the scan service cannot be communicated,

wherein the acquisition unit is configured to acquire, after a scan process is executed by the image processing apparatus in response to an operator issuing a scan instruction, scan data of a document scanned by the scan process via wireless communication by the second communication unit, and to issue an instruction for deleting the scan data to the image processing apparatus after acquiring the scan data.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display unit is configured to switch and display from the displayed icon indicating that the scan service can be communicated to the icon indicating that the scan service cannot be communicated according to disconnection of wireless communication by the first communication unit.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus is configured to terminate a process of a scanner driver communicating with the image processing apparatus according to acquisition of scan data of the document by the acquisition unit.

4. A control method for an information processing apparatus configured to communicate with an image processing apparatus, the control method comprising:

a first communication step of starting wireless communication by placing the information processing apparatus on a device port of the image processing apparatus;

a second communication step of starting wireless communication without placing the information processing apparatus on a device port of the image processing apparatus, wherein a transmission rate in the second communication step is higher than a transmission rate in the first communication step;

an acquisition step of acquiring, via wireless communication in the first communication step, information from the image processing apparatus to determine whether a scan service provided by the image processing apparatus comprising a scanner unit can be communicated; and

a display step of displaying an icon indicating that the scan service can be accessed when it is determined that the scan service can be communicated, and an icon indicting that the scan service cannot be accessed when it is determined that the scan service cannot be communicated,

wherein the acquisition step acquires, after a scan process is executed by the image processing apparatus in response to an operator issuing a scan instruction, scan data of a document scanned by the scan process via wireless communication in the second communication step, and issues an instruction for deleting the scan data to the image processing apparatus after acquiring the scan data.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the display step switches and displays from the displayed icon indicating that the scan service can be communicated to the icon indicating that the scan service cannot be communicated according to disconnection of wireless communication in the first communication step.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the information processing apparatus terminates a process of a scanner driver communicating with the image processing apparatus according to acquisition of scan data of the document in the acquisition step.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program configured to cause a computer to execute a control method for an information processing apparatus configured to communicate with an image processing apparatus, the control method comprising:

a first communication step of starting wireless communication by placing the information processing apparatus on a device port of the image processing apparatus;

a second communication step of starting wireless communication without placing the information processing apparatus on a device port of the image processing apparatus, wherein a transmission rate in the second communication step is higher than a transmission rate in the first communication step;

an acquisition step of acquiring, via wireless communication in the first communication step, information from the image processing apparatus to determine whether a scan service provided by the image processing apparatus comprising a scanner unit can be communicated; and

a display step of displaying an icon indicating that the scan service can be accessed when it is determined that the scan service can be communicated, and an icon indicting that the scan service cannot be accessed when it is determined that the scan service cannot be communicated,

wherein the acquisition step acquires, after a scan process is executed by the image processing apparatus in response to an operator issuing a scan instruction, scan data of a document scanned by the scan process via wireless communication in the second communication step, and issues an instruction for deleting the scan data to the image processing apparatus after acquiring the scan data.

8. The medium according to claim 7, wherein the display step switches and displays from the displayed icon indicating that the scan service can be communicated to the icon indicating that the scan service cannot be communicated according to disconnection of wireless communication in the first communication step.

9. The medium according to claim 7, wherein the information processing apparatus terminates a process of a scanner driver communicating with the image processing apparatus according to acquisition of scan data of the document in the acquisition step.