Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same

• US 8,922,841 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2012
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Isoda, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Kimberly A
• Application Number:
  US13/490,528
• Publication Number:
  US 20120314262A1
• Time in Patent Office: 936 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 358/402
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00212 Attaching image data to computer messages, e.g. to e-mails
• 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 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3229 further additional information (metadata) being comprised in the file name (including path, e.g. directory or folder names at one or more higher hierarchical levels)
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3247 Data linking a set of images to one another, e.g. sequence, burst or continuous capture mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display

Abstract

An image processing apparatus capable of optically reading a document to generate an electronic file, and a method for controlling the same, in which an existing file that is to be attached to the electronic file or to which the electronic file is to be attached is specified, the name of an attachment-including file including the specified electronic file and existing file is specified, and the attachment-including file is sent under the specified name to a specified destination by a sending method for the attachment-including file.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a document reading unit configured to optically read a document and generate electronic data;

a generating unit configured to generate an electronic file based on the electronic data;

a file specifying unit configured to specify a file that is to be attached to the electronic file generated by the generating unit or to which the electronic file generated by the generating unit is to be attached;

a name specifying unit configured to specify a name of the electronic file generated by the generating unit;

an attaching unit configured to selectively perform attaching the specified file to the electronic file generated by the generating unit or attaching the electronic file generated by the generating unit to the specified file, and configured to generate an attachment-including file; and

a sending unit configured to send the attachment-including file to a destination, wherein a name of the attachment-including file is specified based on the name specified by the name specifying unit.

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

a setting unit configured to set a file format of the electronic file generated by the generating unit; and

a determining unit configured to determine whether the file format of the electronic file set by the setting unit is a file format permitting attachment of another file to the electronic file,

wherein, in a case where the determining unit determines that the file format is a file format permitting attachment of another file to the electronic file, the file specifying unit is allowed to specify a file to be attached to the electronic file generated by the generating unit.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the file specifying unit specifies the file by a folder and a filename.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the name specifying unit further specifies the name of the attachment-including file by using at least one of, or a combination of any of, the name of the electronic file, the name of the specified file, and an arbitrary character string.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the file specifying unit specifies a plurality of file candidates to be attached to the electronic file generated by the generating unit.

6. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a document reading unit configured to optically read a document and generate electronic data;

a generating unit configured to generate an electronic file based on the electronic data;

a file specifying unit configured to specify a file that is to be attached to the electronic file generated by the generating unit or to which the electronic file generated by the generating unit is to be attached;

a name specifying unit configured to specify a name of the electronic file generated by the generating unit;

an attaching unit configured to selectively perform attaching the specified file to the electronic file generated by the generating unit or attaching the electronic file generated by the generation unit to the specified file, and configured to generate a attachment-including file; and

a storing unit configured to store the attachment-including file in a storage location, wherein a name of the attachment-including file is specified based on the name specified by the name specifying unit.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the storage location includes a folder in which the file specified by the file specifying unit is stored or an arbitrary folder.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a changing unit configured to change either the name of the file specified by the file specifying unit or the name of the attachment-including file in a case where the storage location is a folder in which the specified file is stored and the names of the specified file and the attachment-including file are the same.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a setting unit configured to set a file format of the electronic file generated by the generating unit; and

a determining unit configured to determine whether the file format of the electronic file set by the setting unit is a file format permitting attachment of another file to the electronic file,

wherein, in a case where the determining unit determines that the file format is a file format permitting attachment of another file to the electronic file, the file specifying unit is allowed to specify a file to be attached to the electronic file generated by the generating unit.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the file specifying unit specifies the file by a folder and a filename.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the name specifying unit further specifies the name of the attachment-including file by using at least one of, or a combination of any of, the name of the electronic file, the name of the specified file, and an arbitrary character string.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the file specifying unit specifies a plurality of file candidates to be attached to the electronic file generated by the generating unit.

13. A control method for controlling an image processing apparatus, the method comprising:

a document reading step of optically reading a document and generating electronic data;

a generating step of generating an electronic file based on the electronic data;

a file specifying step of specifying a file that is to be attached to the electronic file generated by the generating step or to which the electronic file generated by the generating step is to be attached;

a name specifying step of specifying a name of the electronic file generated by the generating step;

an attaching step of selectively performing attaching the specified file to the electronic file generated by the generating step or attaching the electronic file generated by the generating step to the specified file, and generating an attachment-including file; and

a sending step of sending the attachment-including file to a destination, wherein a name of the attachment-including file is specified based on the name specified by the name specifying step.

14. A control method for controlling an image processing apparatus, the method comprising:

a document reading step of optically reading a document and generating electronic data;

a generating step of generating an electronic file based on the electronic data;

a file specifying step of specifying a file that is to be attached to the electronic file generated by the generating unit or to which the electronic file generated by the generating unit is to be attached;

a name specifying step of specifying a name of the electronic file generated by the generating step;

an attaching step of selectively performing attaching the specified file to the electronic file generated by the generating step or attaching the electronic file generated by the generating step to the specified file, and configured to generate an attachment-including file; and

a storing step of storing the attachment-including file in a storage location, wherein a name of the attachment-including file is specified based on the name specified by the name specifying step.

15. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a document reading unit configured to optically read a document and generate electronic data;

a generating unit configured to generate a first file based on the electronic data;

a storage unit configured store a second file;

an accepting unit configured to accept, from a user, either an instruction for attaching the first file to the second file or an instruction for attaching the second file to the first file;

an attaching unit configured to, based on the instruction accepted by the accepting unit, selectively perform attaching the first file to the second file or attaching the second file to the first file and configured to generate an attachment-including file; and

a sending unit configured to send the attachment-including file to a destination.

16. The image processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the destination is a storage location, and the sending unit sends the attachment—

including file to the storage location.

17. The image processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the accepting unit is configured to further accept, from the user, an instruction for preventing from attaching any file to the first file.

18. A control method for controlling an image processing apparatus, the method comprising:

optically reading a document and to generate electronic data;

generating a first file based on the electronic data;

storing a second file;

accepting, from a user, either an instruction for attaching the first file to the second file or an instruction for attaching the second file to the first file;

selectively performing attaching the first file to the second file or attaching the second file to the first file based on the accepted instruction, and generating an attachment—

including file; and

sending the attachment-including file to a destination.