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US 2011/0235135 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus, control method for image forming apparatus, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuichi Utsumi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus stores image data generated from a document scanned by a scanner on a removable medium. When storage on the removable medium is not completed, part of the image data that has been stored by that time is deleted from the removable medium.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a scanning unit configured to scan a document;
- a connection unit configured to connect a removably connectable storage device;
- a storage unit configured to store image data generated from the document scanned by the scanning unit in the storage device connected by the connection unit;
- and
- a deleting unit configured to delete, in a case where storage performed by the storage unit is not completed, part of the generated image data that has been stored by the storage unit by that time from the storage device.
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A control method for an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- a scanning step of scanning a document;
- a connection step of connecting a removably connectable storage device;
- a storage step of storing image data generated from the document scanned in the scanning step in the connected storage device;
- and
- a deleting step of deleting, in a case where storage performed in the storage step is not completed, part of the generated image data that has been stored in the storage step by that time from the storage device.
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A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing an image forming apparatus to execute processing comprising:
- a scanning step of scanning a document;
- a connection step of connecting a removably connectable storage device;
- a storage step of storing image data generated from the document scanned in the scanning step in the connected storage device;
- and
- a deleting step of deleting, in a case where storage performed in the storage step is not completed, part of the generated image data that has been stored in the storage step by that time from the storage device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.