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US 12,273,796 B2Granted
Image reader and method of setting wireless setup information for image reader
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsOsamu Koyama, Nobutaka Suzuki, Masatomo Kanamitsu, Junichiro Higuma, Hideaki Tokuda
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Abstract
A control unit of an image reader executes OCR (optical character recognition processing) on image data as a result of scanning a setup guide, and upon acquiring an SSID and an encryption key, attempts to communicate with a corresponding wireless LAN master device using the SSID and the corresponding encryption key.
Claims8
An image reader comprising:
- a scanning unit configured to read an original document provided with an image and convert the image into image data;
- a display unit;
- a control unit configured to control the reading of the image by the scanning unit;
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- a wireless communication unit using a wireless LAN and acquiring one or more SSIDs receivable from wireless devices, wherein
- the control unit is configured to execute optical information recognition processing on the image data,
- the control unit is configured to cause the scanning unit to read an original document provided with wireless setup information allocated to a wireless LAN master device, to execute the optical information recognition processing on image data of the wireless setup information read, to recognize predetermined information, and to acquire wireless setup information for connection to the wireless LAN master device based on the predetermined information acquired, and
- the control unit causes the display unit to display an SSID, which does not match the SSID included in the wireless setup information optically recognized but has characters partially matching those of the SSID included in the wireless setup information optically recognized, from the one or more SSIDs.
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A method of setting wireless setup information for an image reader being configured to execute optical information recognition processing on image data and including:
- a scanning unit configured to read an original document provided with an image and convert the image into image data;
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- a wireless communication unit using a wireless LAN, the method comprising:
- by the scanning unit, reading an original document provided with wireless setup information allocated to a wireless LAN master device;
- executing optical character recognition processing on image data of the wireless setup information optically recognized, to recognize character information provided;
- acquiring wireless setup information for connection to the wireless LAN master device based on the character information acquired;
- acquiring one or more SSIDs receivable from wireless devices;
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- displaying an SSID, which does not match the SSID included in the wireless setup information optically recognized read but has characters partially matching those of the SSID included in the wireless setup information optically recognized, from the one or more SSIDs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.