US 10,313,538 B2Granted

Image forming apparatus and scanning method by image forming apparatus for combining separately scanned documents

AssigneeHP Printing Korea Co., Ltd.

InventorsTae-jung Yun, Yong-im Kim, Hong-seock Kim

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Abstract

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus. The present image forming apparatus comprises: an input unit for receiving a scanning option; a communication unit for transmitting the received scanning option to another image forming apparatus; a scanning unit for scanning a first document according to the scanning option and generating first scanned data; and a control unit for receiving second scanned data in which a second document is scanned according to the scanning option in another image forming apparatus, and combining the first scanned data and the second scanned data.

Claims14

Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus, comprising:

an input panel to:
receive a command to perform a scanning operation, and
receive a selection of a scanning option;
a communication chip to transmit the command to perform the scanning operation, the selected scanning option, and state information of the image forming apparatus to another image forming apparatus;
a scanner to:
based on the command to perform the scanning operation, scan a first document according to the scanning option and the state information of the image forming apparatus, and
generate first scanned data;
and
at least one processor to:
receive, from said another image forming apparatus, second scanned data corresponding to a second document, and
combine the first scanned data and the second scanned data,
wherein, based on the command to perform the scanning operation, the second document is scanned by said another image forming apparatus according to the scanning option and the state information transmitted by the communication chip.

9 more elements

A scanning method of an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving a command to perform a scanning operation;
receiving a selection of a scanning option;
based on the command to perform the scanning operation, generating first scanned data by scanning a first document according to the scanning option and state information of the image forming apparatus;
transmitting the command to perform the scanning operation, the selected scanning option, and the state information of the image forming apparatus to another image forming apparatus;
receiving, from said another image forming apparatus, second scanned data corresponding to a second document;
and
combining the first scanned data and the second scanned data,
wherein, based on the command to perform the scanning operation, the second document is scanned by said another image forming apparatus according to the scanning option and the state information transmitted by the image forming apparatus.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/314,040Filed 2 Dec 2014
Priority: KR 10-2014-006505229 May 2014
Published: US 2017/0214808 A127 Jul 2017
Granted: 4 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04N 1/00228
Details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing: image push arrangements, e.g. from an image reading…
G06F 3/12
Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for…: digital…
G06F 3/124
Print job management: parallel printing or parallel ripping
H04N 1/0022
Details of transmission: involving facsimile protocols or a combination of facsimile protocols and computer data transmission protocols

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