Control method for image processing apparatus connectable to computer network

• US 8,661,333 B2
• Filed: 08/09/2006
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Matsuda, Hiroshi, Hikichi, Yukiyoshi, Sato, Tomoya
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, THU V
• Application Number:
  US11/501,004
• Publication Number:
  US 20060271936A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,757 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234, 715/255, 715/237, 715/205, 715/274, 715200-203
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1207 resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job submission
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00225 details of image data generation, e.g. scan-to-email or network scanners using an image reading device as a local input to a computer H04N1/00241
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00233 details of image data reproduction, e.g. network printing or remote image display using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer H04N1/00238; digital output from computer to printer unit G06F3/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32106 separate from the image data, e.g. in a different computer file
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0018 via a non-image communication channel, e.g. via a computer network
• 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 2201/0098 User intervention not otherwise provided for, e.g. placing documents, responding to an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3212 of data relating to a job, e.g. communication, capture or filing of an image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3225 of data relating to an image, a page or a document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

A Web server function is provided for an image processing apparatus including a scanner for reading an image on a document, a printer for printing an image, an E-mail transmission/reception function, a FAX transmission/reception function, and the like to make the image processing apparatus generate a list of information about the status of various jobs and image data stored in a storage unit as a Web page. A user can browse and operate this Web page by using the Web browser of a computer connected to the apparatus through a LAN. The user of the computer can therefore grasp and manipulate information about a plurality of jobs executed by the image processing apparatus and information about image data at a remote place from the image processing apparatus.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus that communicates with an external apparatus, the image processing apparatus comprising:

a storage unit constructed to store image data consisting of pages in a box;

a generating unit constructed to generate a first web page for displaying a list of a plurality of boxes on a web browser of the external apparatus, a second web page for displaying a list of the image data stored in one of the plurality of boxes on the web browser of the external apparatus, and a third web page for displaying a list of pages contained in the image data on the web browser of the external apparatus; and

a transmitting unit constructed to transmit the first web page, the second web page, and the third web page to the external apparatus,

wherein the second web page is a web page for displaying on the web browser of the external apparatus, link information that is associated with the image data and for displaying the third web page for the associated image data, an input part for allowing a user to select one or more image data from among the list of the image data, and an instruction part for allowing a user to make a print instruction for printing the image data selected using the input part.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one of page count of the image data, document name of the image data, page size of the image data, and last update time of the image data is displayed in the second web page as information regarding each image data.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one of page number, data size, and picture size is displayed in the third web page as information regarding each page.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one of page count of the image data, document name of the image data, page size of the image data, and last update time of the image data is displayed in the third web page as information regarding the image data selected in the second web page.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a page is selected by a user from the list of pages contained in the image data on the third web page, image data corresponding to the selected page is displayed on the web browser of the external apparatus.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a box is selected by a user from the list of the plurality of boxes on the first web page, the second web page corresponding to the selected box is displayed on the web browser of the external apparatus.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a reading unit constructed to read document and generate image data,

wherein image data stored by the storage unit is image data generated by the reading unit.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a receiving unit constructed to receive print data,

wherein image data stored by the storage unit is image data which is generated based on the print data received by the receiving unit.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a reading unit constructed to read document and generate image data,

wherein the storing unit stores image data generated by the reading unit, and

wherein image data is displayed by the second web page such that the image data is identified as whether image data generated based on the print data received by the receiving unit or image data generated by the reading unit.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a printing unit constructed to perform printing processing based on the image data.

11. An image processing method that is performed by an image processing apparatus communicating with an external apparatus, the image processing method comprising the steps of:

storing image data consisting of pages in a box;

generating a first web page for displaying a list of a plurality of boxes on a web browser of the external apparatus, a second web page for displaying a list of the image data stored in one of the plurality of boxes on the web browser of the external apparatus, and a third web page for displaying a list of pages contained in the image data on the web browser of the external apparatus; and

transmitting the first web page, the second web page, and the third web page to the external apparatus,

wherein the second web page is a web page for displaying on the web browser of the external apparatus, link information that is associated with the image data and for displaying the third web page for the associated image data, an input part for allowing a user to select one or more image data from among the list of the image data, and an instruction part for allowing a user to make a print instruction for printing the image data selected using the input part.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a program thereon, the program causing a computer communicating with an external apparatus to execute an image processing method, the image processing method

storing image data consisting of pages in a box;

generating a first web page for displaying a list of a plurality of boxes on a web browser of the external apparatus, a second web page for displaying a list of the image data stored in one of the plurality of boxes on the web browser of the external apparatus, and a third web page for displaying a list of pages contained in the image data on the web browser of the external apparatus; and

transmitting the first web page, the second web page, and the third web page to the external apparatus,

wherein the second web page is a web page for displaying on the web browser of the external apparatus, link information that is associated with the image data and for displaying the third web page for the associated image data, an input part for allowing a user to select one or more image data from among the list of the image data, and an instruction part for allowing a user to make a print instruction for printing the image data selected using the input part.