Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium

• US 8,736,866 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2012
• Issued: 05/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Uchikawa, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): THOMAS, ASHISH
• Application Number:
  US13/450,663
• Publication Number:
  US 20120200880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 358/1.14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/335 for accessing specific resources, e.g. using Kerberos tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/608 Secure printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0048 Indicating an illegal or impossible operation or selection to the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00915 Assigning priority to, or interrupting, a particular operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00917 Resuming after an intentional interruption, e.g. resetting parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00925 Inhibiting an operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32496 Changing the task performed, e.g. reading and transmitting, receiving and reproducing, copying facsimile mode changing H04N1/333
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32625 Fault detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32657 locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4406 Restricting access, e.g. according to user identity mechanisms actuated y cards, PIN or the like in apparatus for dispensing G07F7/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4426 involving separate means, e.g. a server, a magnetic card
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4433 to an apparatus, part of an apparatus or an apparatus function
• 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 2201/3212 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

Abstract

An image processing apparatus comprising, a detector unit configured to detect an event that a user logged in to the image processing apparatus logs out, an query unit configured to be operable when said detector unit detects the event, to query the user whether or not to change a setting of a job under execution, and a control unit configured to be operable when the setting of the job is to be changed as a result of the query made by said query unit, to change the setting of the job and then perform a logout, and, when the setting of the job is not to be changed as a result of the query made by said query unit, to restrict the logout.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a detector unit configured to detect an event that a first user logs in to the image processing apparatus;

a determination unit configured to, when the event is detected by said detector unit, determine whether or not an interactive job is under execution, wherein the interactive job is a job that becomes suspended after a start of execution of the job and before the job is completed, and requires an instruction of execution of the job from a second user to resume the suspended job; and

a control unit configured to;

when said determination unit determines that the interactive job is under execution, query the first user whether or not to cancel the interactive job, and

when said determination unit determines that the interactive job is not under execution, perform a login to the image processing apparatus for the first user without making the query.

2. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said control unit is configured to, when cancellation of the interactive job is designated as a result of the query, cancel the interactive job, and then perform the login to the image processing apparatus.

3. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a display unit configured to, when said control unit performs the login, display an operating screen associated with a logged-in user.

4. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interactive job is a scan job for checking a scanned original.

5. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interactive job is a test copy job for checking a first one of a plurality of copies of printout and then outputting the remaining copies.

6. A method of controlling an image processing apparatus, the method comprising:

a detection step of detecting an event that a first user logs in to the image processing apparatus;

a determination step of determining whether or not an interactive job, is under execution, when the event is detected in said detection step, wherein the interactive job is a job that becomes suspended after a start of execution of the job and before the job is completed, and requires an instruction of execution of the job from a second user to resume the suspended job; and

a control step of;

querying the first user whether or not to cancel the interactive job, when said determination step determines that the interactive job is under execution, and

performing a login to the image processing apparatus for the first user without making the query, when said determination step determines that the interactive job is not under execution.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program executable by a a processor of an image processing apparatus to execute a method of controlling the image processing apparatus, wherein the program comprises:

a detection module for detecting an event that a first user logs in to the image processing apparatus;

a determination module for determining whether or not an interactive job, is under execution, when the event is detected by said detection module, wherein the interactive job is a job that becomes suspended after a start of execution of the job and before the job is completed, and requires an instruction of execution of the job from a second user to resume the suspended job; and

a control module for;

querying the first user whether or not to cancel the interactive job, when said determination module determines that the interactive job is under execution, and

performing a login to the image processing apparatus for the first user without making the query, when said determination module determines that the interactive job is not under execution.