Image data management system
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTetsuo Fukumoto
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Abstract
There is provided an image data management system that restricts a user's exit depending on the use of image data containing confidential information. An image data management system includes a management server 1, printers 2, gates 3 and 4, and an IC card 6. The printers 2 generate processing information when the user processes the image data, and store the processing information in the IC card 6. When the user is going to exit a managed area A or B, the gate 3 reads user information and the processing information from the IC card 6. The management server 1 determines whether feature information is present in the processing information. If feature information is present, the user's exit is prohibited. A manager's PC 5 is informed of the prohibition.
Claims15
An image data management system comprising:
- a monitoring apparatus for monitoring a user's exit from a managed area;
- an image processing apparatus provided in the managed area;
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- a storage apparatus for storing processing information when the user uses the image processing apparatus to process image data,
- wherein the monitoring apparatus refers to the processing information in the storage apparatus to determine whether the user's exit from the managed area is permitted or prohibited.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.