IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

• US 20140002859A1
• Filed: 06/27/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Isoda, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 9,876,932 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• 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 1/0023 Image pull arrangements, e.g. to a multifunctional peripheral from a networked computer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/21 Intermediate information storage H04N1/387, H04N1/41 take precedence ; for control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32358; indexing, editing G11B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32358 using picture signal storage, e.g. at transmitter H04N1/17 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32416 Storage of instructions or retrieval of prestored instructions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/33307 prior to start of transmission, input or output of the picture signal only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0068 Converting from still picture data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3221 of a job number or identification, e.g. communication number
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/33321 Image or page size, e.g. A3, A4
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/33328 Resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/33378 Type or format of data, e.g. colour or B/W, halftone or binary, computer image file or facsimile data

Abstract

A transmission destination of image data is set, and image data obtained by scanning a document image is stored. When a received scan job request is that from the set transmission destination, the stored image data is converted according to parameters included in the scan job request, and the converted image data is transmitted to the transmission destination as a transmission source of the scan job request.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a scanning unit configured to generate image data by scanning a document;

a setting unit configured to set a transmission destination of the image data;

a storage unit configured to store image data generated by said scanning unit;

a reception unit configured to receive a scan job request;

a conversion unit configured to convert, in a case where a scan job request received by said reception unit is a scan job request from a transmission destination set by said setting unit, the image data stored in said storage unit in accordance with a parameter included in the scan job request; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data converted by said conversion unit to a transmission destination as a transmission source of the scan job request.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said storage unit further stores the transmission destination set by said setting unit in association with the image data.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a generation unit configured to generate an identifier in a case where said scanning unit generates image data,

wherein said storage unit stores the identifier generated by said generation unit and the transmission destination set by said setting unit in association with the image data generated by said scanning unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein after a scan ready notification indicating that said scanning unit is ready for a scan of the document is transmitted to the transmission destination set by said setting unit, the scan job request is transmitted in response to the scan ready notification.

5. The apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a delete unit configured to delete, after said transmission unit transmits the converted image data, links to the identifier and the transmission destination stored in said storage unit in association with that image data.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said storage unit further stores a storage time limit of the image data, and

said apparatus further comprises a unit configured to delete image data, the storage time limit of which has expired.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a processing unit configured to scan, in a case where the scan job request is not a scan job request transmitted from the transmission destination set by said setting unit, a document using said scanning unit, to convert image data according to a parameter included in the scan job request, and to transmit the converted image data to a transmission destination as a transmission source of the scan job request.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the parameter included in the scan job request includes any one of pieces of information associated with a file format, a color mode, a paper size, and a resolution.

9. A control method of controlling an image processing apparatus, comprising:

a scanning step of generating image data by scanning a document;

a setting step of setting a transmission destination of the image data;

a storage step of storing image data generated in the scanning step in a memory;

a reception step of receiving a scan job request;

a conversion step of converting, in a case where a scan job request received in the reception step is a scan job request from a transmission destination set in the setting step, the image data stored in the memory in accordance with a parameter included in the scan job request; and

a transmission step of transmitting the image data converted in the conversion step to a transmission destination as a transmission source of the scan job request.

10. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for controlling a computer to execute:

a scanning step of generating image data by scanning a document;

a setting step of setting a transmission destination of the image data;

a storage step of storing image data generated in the scanning step in a memory;

a reception step of receiving a scan job request;

a conversion step of converting, in a case where a scan job request received in the reception step is a scan job request from a transmission destination set in the setting step, the image data stored in the memory in accordance with a parameter included in the scan job request; and

a transmission step of transmitting the image data converted in the conversion step to a transmission destination as a transmission source of the scan job request.