Image processing device, image processing method and remote-scan image processing system using the same

• US 8,830,536 B2
• Filed: 10/18/2013
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Minato, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Grant, II, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US14/057,869
• Publication Number:
  US 20140043657A1
• Time in Patent Office: 326 Days
• Field of Search: 358/407, 358/452, 358/401, 358/505, 358/403, 358/426.05, 358/400, 358/404, 358/444, 358/475, 358/443, 358/448, 358/1.6, 358/1.15, 358/1.16, 358/3.07, 358/468, 358/3.2, 358/405, 358/451, 358/440, 382/312
• US Class Current: 358/468
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00095 Systems or arrangements for the transmission of the picture signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00114 with transmission of additional information signals for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver H04N1/32101
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00214 details of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00217 only involving computer data transmission protocols, e.g. SMTP, WAP or HTTP communication protocol aspects and techniques in packet data networks H04L69/00; network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications H04L67/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00384 Key input means, e.g. buttons or keypads electromechanical details of key input means in general H01H13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2175 with local image input
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0093 Facsimile machine H04N2201/0094 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence

Abstract

In the image processing device, method and system of the present invention, a destination identifier of an image file is stored, the destination identifier indicating one of a plurality of external stations as a destination station which receives the image file from the image processing device through a network. At least one of a sender identifier of the image file, a subject identifier of the image file and a scan condition of the image file is stored. The image file is transmitted, together with at least one of the sender identifier, the subject identifier and the scan condition, through the network to one of the external stations indicated by the stored destination identifier.

Claims

1. An image processing device, comprising:

a scanner to scan a document;

a network interface;

a display device; and

a processing circuit configured to

set, in response to a user operation via one or more display screens displayed on the display device, a destination to which an image file generated by the scanned document is to be transmitted and set one or more scan condition settings including at least a resolution setting for scanning, and

transmit, to the destination through the network interface, the image file and the one or more scan condition settings that have been set.

2. The image processing device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a memory to store a plurality of destinations, and

wherein the processing circuit sets the destination among the plurality of destinations by reading from the memory.

3. The image processing device as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

the memory further stores a scan condition list, the scan condition list includes sets of the one or more scan condition settings, and

the processing circuit sets the one or more scan condition settings among the sets of the one or more scan condition settings by reading from the memory.

4. The image processing device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the processing circuit is further configured to:

receive, via the network interface, the plurality of destinations and the scan condition list, and

store, in the memory, the received plurality of destinations and the received scan condition list.

5. The image processing device as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the processing circuit sets the destination and the one or more scan condition settings individually.

6. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 5,

wherein the processing circuit sets the destination in response to a first user operation via a first screen, and one or more scan condition settings in response to a second user operation via a second screen.

7. The image processing device as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the one or more scan condition settings further include a document feed setting.

8. An image processing method for transmitting an image file in an image processing device including a scanner to scan a document, a network interface, and a display device, the method comprising:

setting, in response to a user operation via one or more display screens displayed on the display device, a destination to which an image file generated by a scanned document is to be transmitted and setting one or more scan condition settings including at least a resolution setting for scanning, and

transmitting, to the destination through the network interface, the image file and the one or more scan condition settings that have been set.

9. The image processing method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

storing a plurality of destinations in a memory, and

wherein the setting sets the destination among the plurality of destinations by reading from the memory.

10. The image processing device as claimed in claim 9, wherein:

the memory further stores a scan condition list, the scan condition list includes sets of the one or more scan condition settings, and

the setting sets the one or more scan condition settings among the sets of the one or more scan condition settings by reading from the memory.

11. The image processing device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the setting further:

receives, via the network interface, the plurality of destinations and the scan condition list, and

stores, in the memory, the received plurality of destinations and the received scan condition list.

12. The image processing device as claimed in claim 8,

wherein the setting sets the destination and the one or more scan condition settings individually.

13. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 12,

wherein the setting sets the destination in response to a first user operation via a first screen, and one or more scan condition settings in response to a second user operation via a second screen.

14. The image processing device as claimed in claim 8,

wherein the one or more scan condition settings further include a document feed setting.