Image reading apparatus and image reading method
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHidemitsu IMAI
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes: a document reader that reads an image of a set document; a communicator that receives an instruction related to execution of a remote scan job from an external device; a job controller that controls the document reader to read the document on the basis of the instruction and to send a read image to the external device; and an operation acceptor that displays an operation screen and accepts an operation from a user via the displayed operation screen. When accepting the operation via the operation screen, the job controller determines that such an operation is an operation related to a job different from the remote scan job, and sets a state where acceptance of the instruction related to the execution of the remote scan job is prohibited onward.
Claims7
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a document reader that reads an image of a set document;
- a communicator that receives an instruction related to execution of a remote scan job from an external device;
- a job controller that controls the document reader to read the document on the basis of the instruction and to send a read image to the external device;
- and
- an operation acceptor that displays an operation screen and accepts an operation from a user via the displayed operation screen, wherein
- when accepting the operation via the operation screen, the job controller determines that such an operation is an operation related to a job different from the remote scan job, and sets a state where acceptance of the instruction related to the execution of the remote scan job is prohibited onward.
An image reading method for causing a controller that controls an image reading apparatus to:
- receive an instruction related to execution of a remote scan job from an external device;
- cause a document set at a document reader to be read and sent to the external device;
- display an operation screen and accept an operation from a user via the displayed operation screen;
- and
- when accepting the operation via the operation screen, determine that such an operation is an operation related to a job different from the remote scan job, and set a state where acceptance of the instruction related to the execution of the remote scan job is prohibited onward.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.