US 2006/0221407 A1Published application

Image reading method and system

AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

InventorsHisashi Uchida, Yoshiyuki Tamai, Masami Yamada, Hiroyuki Kawabata

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Abstract

There is provided an image reading method and an image reading system enabling various settings with easy operation and capable of acquiring image data obtained through scanning in a state where the client's security is fully secured. An image reading apparatus and an information processing apparatus connected with the image reading apparatus over a network are provided, and a shared storage area readable/writable by the image reading apparatus and the information processing apparatus is provided in the image reading apparatus or in an electric computer or in another apparatus connected with the network. The information processing apparatus creates an image link object associated with information relating to scanning and transmits scan preparation information including information relating to the scanning to the image reading apparatus. The image reading apparatus executes scanning based on the scan preparation information received, and saves an image data file obtained through scanning on the shared storage area.

Claims13

Dependent claims

An image reading system comprising:

an image reading apparatus which scans an original optically and converting the original to image data;
an information processing apparatus connected with the image reading apparatus over a network;
and
a storage device having a shared storage area which is shared by the image reading apparatus and the information processing apparatus, the storage device is provided in the image reading apparatus or in the information processing apparatus or in another apparatus connected with the network, wherein
the information processing apparatus comprises:
an image link object creator which creates an image link object, where the image link object is associated with scanner setting information and storage destination information, where the scanner setting information is setting information relating to scanning of the image reading apparatus and the storage destination information is information about a storage destination of an image data file created by the scanning of the image reading apparatus;
and
a transmitter which transmits scan preparation information to the image reading apparatus, where the scan preparation information includes the scanner setting information and the storage destination information, and
the image reading apparatus comprises:
a receiver which receives the scan preparation information transmitted from the information processing apparatus;
a scan executor which executes the scanning based on the scanner setting information;
and
an image data saver which saves image data created through the scanning onto the storage destination of the image data file based on the storage destination information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/206,122Filed 18 Aug 2005
Priority: JP 2005-10197631 Mar 2005
Published: 5 Oct 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04N 1/00222
Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax: details of…
H04N 1/00233
Details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing: details of image data reproduction, e.g. network…
H04N 1/00244
With a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server: with a server, e.g. an internet server
H04N 1/00389
Key input means, e.g. buttons or keypads: programmable function keys, e.g. for one-touch operation