Image processing apparatus, digital multifunction apparatus and control method thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsJunko Nemoto, Yoshio Kimura
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Abstract
When a user logs in and inputs document data into a box, a usage history of the box as used by the user is determined by referring to a user information management table. If there is a record, process attributes are set, and a process associated with the box is executed. If there is no record, a message indicating that there is no record is displayed. If execution is selected in response to this display, the process is executed. Once the process has ended, the usage record of the box as used by the user is updated to “used”.
Claims11
An image processing apparatus provided with a hot folder function that associates a box that accepts data with a process to be performed on data inputted into the box, the apparatus comprising:
- a storage for storing a box management table that stores definitions of processes for data inputted into the box, and a user management table in which usage histories of boxes are registered and stored per user and per box;
- processing means that, in the case where data has been inputted into the box by a user, refers to the user management table and determines whether or not there is a record of the user inputting data into the box, executes the process associated with the box on the inputted data if there is a record, or outputs a message indicating there is no record if there is no record and accepts a confirmatory input, and executes the process associated with the box on the inputted data and records a usage history of the box as used by the user in the user management table in the case where the confirmatory input has been accepted from the user;
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- process parameter maintenance means that deletes the usage history of the box from the user management table in the case where the process defined in the box management table has been changed in response to an operation performed by the user.
A digital multifunction apparatus provided with a hot folder function that associates a box that accepts data with a process to be performed on data inputted into the box, the apparatus comprising:
- an image scanner;
- a storage for storing a box management table that stores definitions of processes for data inputted into the box;
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- processing means that, in the case where image data scanned by the scanner has been inputted into the box, refers to the box management table and executes the process associated with the box.
A control method for controlling an image processing apparatus having a storage and a processor, and provided with a hot folder function that associates a box that accepts data with a process to be performed on data inputted into the box, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining, in the case where data has been inputted into a box by a user, whether or not there is a record of the user inputting data into the box, by referring to a user management table, stored in the storage means, in which usage histories of boxes are registered and stored per user and per box;
- outputting a message indicating there is no record if there is no record, and accepting a confirmatory input from the user;
- executing the process associated with the box on the inputted data and registering the usage history of the box by the user in the user management table, by referring to the box management table, stored in the storage means, that stores definitions of processes to be performed on data inputted into the box;
- referring to the box management table in the case where there is a record and performing the process associated with the box on the inputted data;
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- deleting the usage history of the box from the user management table in the case where the process defined in the box management table has been changed in response to an operation performed by the user.
A control method for controlling a digital multifunction apparatus provided with a hot folder function that associates a box that accepts data with a process to be performed on data inputted into the box, and also provided with a scanner unit, the method comprising the steps of:
- in the case where image data scanned by the scanner has been inputted into the box, referring to a box management table that stores definitions of processes to be performed on the data inputted into the box;
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- executing the process defined in the box management table on the data inputted into the box.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.