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US 2006/0077474 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus, image forming system and method of controlling apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Watanabe
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Abstract
Each time image information is read from a document, the number of times it is read is counted. When the image information is read from the document, a Job ID inherent to the read image information is generated by a combination of an apparatus number inherent to the image forming apparatus and the count value.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a scanner configured to read the image information of a document;
- a storing unit configured to store the image information read by the scanner;
- a counter configured to count the number of times the scanner reads the image information;
- and
- a generation part configured to generate, when the image information is read by the scanner, identification information inherent to the image information read by the scanner by a combination of an apparatus number inherent to the image forming apparatus and a count value of the counter.
2 more elements
An image forming system, comprising:
- a plurality of image forming apparatuses;
- at least one terminal connected to the image forming apparatuses through a network;
- and
- a server connected to the image forming apparatuses through the network,
- wherein each or the image forming apparatuses comprises:
- a scanner configured to read the image information of a document;
- a storing unit configured to store the image information read by the scanner;
- a counter configured to count the number of times the scanner reads the image information;
- and
- a generation part configured to generate, when the image information is read by the scanner, identification information inherent to image information read by the scanner by a combination of an apparatus number inherent to the apparatus and a count value of the counter;
- a printer that prints the image information read by the scanner to a paper sheet;
- an operating part through which information is input;
- and
- a display part,
- wherein the terminal comprises:
- an operating part through which information is input;
- and
- a display part, and
- wherein the server comprises:
- a management storing unit configured to store management information composed of at least the identification information generated by the generation part and the stored address of the image information stored in the storing unit;
- and
- a control part configured to read out, when the identification information is input through any of the operating parts, the image information corresponding to the input identification information from the storing units of the image forming apparatuses referring to the management information stored in the management storing unit and prints the image information by any of the printers of the image forming apparatuses.
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A method of controlling an image forming apparatus comprising:
- reading image information of a document;
- storing the read image information;
- counting the number of times the image information is read;
- and
- generating identification information inherent to the read image information, when the image information is read, by a combination of an apparatus number inherent to the image forming apparatus and the count value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.