Image reading system, image reading apparatus, information processing apparatus, method for controlling them, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoki Morita
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Abstract
In the present image reading system, an information processing apparatus notifies any image reading apparatus on a network of connection information, and permits transmission of image data only in a case where the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information accesses the information processing apparatus. The image reading apparatus transmits image data that is read from an original, to a transmission destination conforming to the connection information is notified by the information processing apparatus.
Claims17
An image reading system including an information processing apparatus and a plurality of image reading apparatuses for reading an image from an original,
- the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a notification unit configured to notify any of the image reading apparatuses connected via a network, of connection information for accessing the information processing apparatus;
- a determination unit configured to determine, when access is made from an external apparatus, whether or not the external apparatus is the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information by the notification unit;
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- a reception unit configured to reject the access from the external apparatus if, as a result of the determination by the determination unit, the external apparatus is not the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information by the notification unit, and permit the access from the external apparatus and receive image data therefrom if the external apparatus is the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information by the notification unit, and
- the image reading apparatuses each comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store the connection information notified by the notification unit, as a transmission destination among setting items related to image reading;
- a setting unit configured to configure a setting related to image reading, using the information stored in the storage unit;
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- a transmission unit configured to transmit, upon receiving an image reading instruction, the image data that is read from the original to the transmission destination that is configured in the setting related to image reading.
An information processing apparatus connected, via a network, to a plurality of image reading apparatuses for reading an image from an original, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a notification unit configured to notify any of the image reading apparatuses of connection information for accessing the information processing apparatus;
- a determination unit configured to determine, when access is made from an external apparatus, whether or not the external apparatus is the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information by the notification unit;
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- a reception unit configured to reject the access from the external apparatus if, as a result of the determination by the determination unit, the external apparatus is not the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information by the notification unit, and permit the access from the external apparatus and receive image data therefrom if the external apparatus is the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information by the notification unit.
An image reading apparatus connected to an information processing apparatus via a network, the image reading apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store connection information that is for accessing the information processing apparatus and of which the information processing apparatus notifies the image reading apparatus, as a transmission destination among setting items related to image reading;
- a setting unit configured to configure a setting related to image reading, using the information stored in the storage unit;
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- a transmission unit configured to transmit, upon receiving an image reading instruction, the image data that is read from the original to the transmission destination that is configured in the setting related to image reading.
A method for controlling an image reading system including an information processing apparatus and a plurality of image reading apparatuses for reading an image from an original, the method comprising:
- in the information processing apparatus,
- notifying any of the image reading apparatuses connected via a network, of connection information for accessing the information processing apparatus;
- determining, when access is made from an external apparatus, whether or not the external apparatus is the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information in the notifying;
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- rejecting the access from the external apparatus if, as a result of the determining, the external apparatus is not the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information in the notifying, and permitting the access from the external apparatus and receiving image data therefrom if the external apparatus is the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information in the notifying, and
- in the image reading apparatuses,
- storing the connection information notified in the notifying, as a transmission destination among setting items related to image reading;
- configuring a setting related to image reading, using the information stored in the storing;
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- transmitting, upon receiving an image reading instruction, the image data that is read from the original to the transmission destination that is configured in the setting related to image reading.
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus connected, via a network, to a plurality of image reading apparatuses for reading an image from an original, the method comprising:
- notifying any of the image reading apparatuses connected via a network, of connection information for accessing the information processing apparatus;
- determining, when access is made from an external apparatus, whether or not the external apparatus is the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information in the notifying;
- and
- rejecting the access from the external apparatus if, as a result of the determining, the external apparatus is not the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information in the notifying, and permitting the access from the external apparatus and receiving image data therefrom if the external apparatus is the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information in the notifying.
A method for controlling an image reading apparatus connected to an information processing apparatus via a network, the method comprising:
- storing connection information that is for accessing the information processing apparatus and of which the information processing apparatus notifies the image reading apparatus, as a transmission destination among setting items related to image reading;
- configuring a setting related to image reading, using the information stored in the storing;
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- transmitting, upon receiving an image reading instruction, the image data that is read from the original to the transmission destination that is configured in the setting related to image reading.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.