Image-reading system

• US 8,767,273 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2012
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Kanaya, Shingo
• Primary Examiner(s): Worku, Negussie
• Application Number:
  US13/434,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20120320431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 824 Days
• Field of Search: 358/474, 358/1.15, 358/442, 358/403, 358/501
• US Class Current: 358/475
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00432 using tabs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• 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 1/32507 a plurality of input devices

Abstract

An image-reading system that includes a plurality of image-reading apparatuses each including a document reading start instructing unit, and an information processing terminal connected to the image-reading apparatuses, wherein each of the image-reading apparatuses includes a detecting unit that detects that a user operates the document reading start instructing unit, a reading unit that reads a document when the detecting unit detects the operation of the user, and an image file transmitting unit that transmits an image file of the document read by the reading unit to the information processing terminal.

Claims

1. An image-reading system, comprising:

a plurality of image-reading apparatuses each including a document reading start instructing unit; and

an information processing terminal connected to the image-reading apparatuses, wherein each of the image-reading apparatuses includes;

a detecting unit that detects that a user operates the document reading start instructing unit;

a reading unit that reads a document when the detecting unit detects the operation of the user; and

an image file transmitting unit that transmits an image file of the document read by the reading unit to the information processing terminal, and

each document reading start unit is associated one-to-one with a reading unit of corresponding one of the plurality of image-reading apparatuses.

2. The image-reading system according to claim 1, wherein the information processing terminal further includes an integrating unit that integrates the image files received from the image-reading apparatuses.

3. The image-reading system according to claim 1, wherein the information processing terminal further includes a reading mode setting unit that sets a reading mode of the image-reading apparatus.

4. The image-reading system according to claim 1, wherein the image-reading apparatuses are used for different applications from each other.

5. The image-reading system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the image-reading apparatuses is an overhead scanner.

6. The image-reading system according to claim 1, wherein each document reading start unit is associated only with a reading unit of corresponding one of the plurality of image-reading apparatuses.