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Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium for transmission of image data

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorMasashi Nishiyama

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Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit configured to accept an input of user information, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an e-mail address of a user identified based on the user information accepted by the acceptance unit, a first setting unit configured to set a destination of a first e-mail transmitted with an attachment of image data, a second setting unit configured to set a destination of a second e-mail for making notification of completion of transmission of the first e-mail, and a control unit configured to perform control such that a destination of the first e-mail is restricted to the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit, but a destination of the second e-mail is not restricted to the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit.

Claims18

Dependent claims

An image processing apparatus comprising:

a scanner scanning a document and generating image data;
a network interface;
a storage;
a memory storing instructions;
and
a processor executing the instructions causing the image processing apparatus to:
store an address book in the storage, wherein the address book includes, as destination information, a plurality of e-mail addresses for a protocol for an e-mail transmission and a plurality of destination addresses for one or more communication protcols different from the protocol for the e-mail transmission;
perform a setting for permitting only an e-mail address of a login user who has been authenticated and is currently logged in to the image processing apparatus as an e-mail address of a transmission destination of transmission of image data generated by the scanner via the network interface;
and
perform, if the setting is enabled and a transmission destination of transmission of image data generated by the scanner is only the e-mail address of a user who has been authenticated and is currently logged in to the image processing apparatus and instructed the image processing apparatus to start the transmission of the image data, the transmission of the image data via the network interface by using the e-mail address of the user,
wherein, if the setting is enabled, the transmission of the image data is not performed by selecting an e-mail address from the plurality of e-mail addresses included in the address book but performed by selecting at least one of the plurality of destination addresses included in the address book.

8 more elements

A method for an image processing apparatus including a scanner scanning a document and generating image data, a network interface and a storage storing an address book in the storage, wherein the address book includes, as destination information, a plurality of e-mail addresses for a protocol for an e-mail transmission and a plurality of destination addresses for one or more communication protcols different from the protocol for the e-mail transmission, the method comprising:

performing a setting for permitting only an e-mail address of a login user who has been authenticated and is currently logged in to the image processing apparatus as an e-mail address of a transmission destination of transmission of image data generated by the scanner via the network interface;
and
performing, if the setting is enabled and a transmission destination of transmission of image data generated by the scanner is only the e-mail address of a user who has been authenticated and is currently logged in to the image processing apparatus and instructed the image processing apparatus to start the transmission of the image data, the transmission of the image data via the network interface by using the e-mail address of the user,
wherein, if the setting is enabled, the transmission of the image data is not performed by selecting an e-mail address from the plurality of e-mail addresses included in the address book but performed by selecting at least one of the plurality of destination addresses included in the address book.

1 more element

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program including instructions, which when executed by a computer of an image processing apparatus including a scanner scanning a document and generating image data, a network interface and a storage storing an address book in the storage, the address book including, as destination information, a plurality of e-mail addresses for a protocol for an e-mail transmission and a plurality of destination addresses for one or more communication protcols different from the protocol for the e-mail transmission, cause the image processing apparatus to execute a method comprising:

performing a setting for permitting only an e-mail address of a login user who has been authenticated and is currently logged in to the image processing apparatus as an e-mail address of a transmission destination of transmission of image data generated by the scanner via the network interface;
and
performing, if the setting is enabled and a transmission destination of transmission of image data generated by the scanner is only the e-mail address of a user who has been authenticated and is currently logged in to the image processing apparatus and instructed the image processing apparatus to start the transmission of the image data, the transmission of the image data via the network interface by using the e-mail address of the user,
wherein, if the setting is enabled, the transmission of the image data is not performed by selecting an e-mail address from the plurality of e-mail addresses included in the address book but performed by selecting at least one of the plurality of destination addresses included in the address book.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/136,028Filed 19 Sep 2018 · continuation
Priority: JP 2012-11575821 May 2012
Published: US 2019/0020768 A117 Jan 2019
Granted: 1 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04N 1/00209
With a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server: transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a…
H04L 51/224
Monitoring or handling of messages: providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
H04N 1/00225
Details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing: details of image data generation, e.g. scan-to-email or…
H04N 1/4413
Restricting access, e.g. according to user identity: involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN

Family

Application13/896,230Parent of this continuation · filed 16 May 2013
US 2019/0020768 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Jan 2019
US 10,110,759 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2013/0308167 A1Published application
US 10,855,853 B2This patent

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