# US 10,313,560 B2 · Image output system, information processing device, and authentication device

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- Number: US 10,313,560 B2
- Document ID: US10313560B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/871,461
- Filed: 2018-01-15
- Published: 2018-05-31
- Granted: 2019-06-04
- Earliest claimed: 2011-12-19
- Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Kunihiko Tsujimoto; Mikako Kimura
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10313560B2

## CPC

- H04N 1/4433: {to an apparatus, part of an apparatus or an apparatus function}
- G06F 3/1204: {resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data}
- G06F 3/1222: {Increasing security of the print job}
- G06F 3/1231: {Device related settings, e.g. IP address, Name, Identification}
- G06F 3/1238: {Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs}
- G06F 3/1265: {Printing by reference, e.g. retrieving document/image data for a job from a source mentioned in the job}
- G06F 3/1285: {Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server}
- G06F 3/1288: {in client-server-printer device configuration}
- G06F 21/44: Program or device authentication
- G06F 21/608: {Secure printing}
- H04N 1/0023: {Image pull arrangements, e.g. to a multifunctional peripheral from a networked computer}
- H04N 1/00233: {details of image data reproduction, e.g. network printing or remote image display (using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer H04N1/00238; digital output from computer to printer unit G06F3/12)}
- H04N 1/00244: {with a server, e.g. an internet server (fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324)}
- H04N 1/00251: {with an apparatus for taking photographic images, e.g. a camera}
- H04N 1/00278: {with a printing apparatus, e.g. a laser beam printer}
- H04N 1/00307: {with a mobile telephone apparatus (constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00)}
- H04N 1/00334: {with an apparatus processing barcodes or the like (arrangements for sensing record carriers G06K7/00)}
- H04N 1/00336: {with an apparatus performing pattern recognition, e.g. of a face or a geographic feature (image or video recognition or understanding of scenes G06V20/00)}
- H04N 1/00854: {Recognising an unauthorised user or user-associated action}
- H04N 1/4413: {involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN}
- H04N 1/4426: {involving separate means, e.g. a server, a magnetic card}
- G06F 2221/2115: Third party
- H04L 63/0428: {wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload}
- H04L 63/083: {using passwords (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226)}
- H04N 2201/0084: Digital still camera
- H04N 2201/0094: Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
- H04N 2201/3205: of identification information, e.g. name or ID code (H04N2201/3209 takes precedence)
- H04N 2201/3269: of machine readable codes or marks, e.g. bar codes or glyphs
- H04N 2201/3273: Display
- H04N 2201/3278: Transmission
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)

## Abstract

An image output method includes capturing an image of code pattern including device information specifying an image output device, obtaining the device information from the image of code pattern, obtaining user information specifying a user, and outputting the device information and the user information to an external device, by an information processing device; authenticating the user based on the user information, by a processor; executing image output processing instructed by the user authenticated based on the user information, by the image output device specified based on the device information; transmitting a result of the image output processing by the image output device to the information processing device, by the image output device; and displaying the result of the image output processing by the information processing device.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An image output method comprising:
capturing an image of code pattern including device information specifying an image output device, obtaining the device information from the image of code pattern, obtaining user information specifying a user, and outputting the device information and the user information to an external device, by an information processing device;
authenticating the user based on the user information, by a processor;
executing image output processing instructed by the user authenticated based on the user information, by the image output device specified based on the device information;
transmitting a result of the image output processing by the image output device to the information processing device, by the image output device; and
displaying the result of the image output processing by the information processing device.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The image output method according to claim 1,
wherein the code pattern is a barcode or a QR code.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The image output method according to claim 1,
wherein the device information is an Internet Protocol address.

### Claim 4

An image output method using an information processing device instructing an image output device to output an image, comprising;
capturing, by the information processing device, an image of code pattern including device information specifying the image output device;
obtaining the device information from the image of code pattern by the information processing device;
obtaining user information specifying a user by the information processing device;
outputting the device information and the user information to an external device by the information processing device; and
receiving a result of image output processing by the image output device and displaying the result, by the information processing device.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The image output method according to claim 4,
wherein the code pattern is a barcode or a QR code.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The image output method according to claim 4,
wherein the device information is an Internet Protocol address.

### Claim 7

An image output device instructed to output an image using an information processing device, the information processing device capturing an image of code pattern including device information specifying the image output device, obtaining the device information from the image of code pattern, obtaining user information specifying a user, and outputting the device information and the user information to an external device,
wherein the image output device comprises a processor configured to:
execute image output processing instructed by the user authenticated based on the user information when specified based on the device information obtained by the information processing device; and
transmit a result of the image output processing to the information processing device.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The image output device according to claim 7,
wherein the code pattern is a barcode or a QR code.

### Claim 9 (depends on 7)

The image output device according to claim 7,
wherein the device information is an Internet Protocol address.