Image reading system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasaki Toyama
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Abstract
In an image reading system having an image reading apparatus for reading the image of a document and an information processing terminal which receives the image data output by the image reading apparatus, the information processing terminal verifies the kind of operation performed at a control panel of the image reading apparatus, calls an image reading module and instructs the image reading apparatus to perform an operation based upon the kind of operation. The image reading apparatus responds by reading the image of the document, and the information processing terminal accepts the image data obtained and stores the image data in a predetermined area of a hard disk. This makes it possible to operate the image reading system efficiently.
Claims9
In an image reading system having an image reading apparatus for reading the image on a document and outputting image data representing the image, and an information processing terminal into which the image data output by said image reading apparatus is entered, said information processing terminal being externally connected to said image reading apparatus, a method of controlling said information processing terminal comprising:
- a verification step of verifying whether an image read instruction has been issued by said image reading apparatus;
- a commanding step of commanding said image reading apparatus to start reading the image on the document by said image reading apparatus if the image read instruction has been issued from said image reading apparatus;
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- a receiving step of receiving image data which is the result of said image reading apparatus reading the image in response to an image read command in said commanding step.
In an image reading system having an image reading apparatus for reading the image on a document and outputting image data representing the image, and an information processing terminal into which the image data output by said image reading apparatus is entered, a method of controlling said image reading system comprising:
- a storage step of storing information, which has been entered from a control panel of said image reading apparatus, in a memory of said image reading apparatus;
- a verification step of verifying the information, which has been stored in the memory, in response to a command from said information processing terminal;
- a step of causing said image reading apparatus to start reading the image in response to a command from said information processing terminal if it is verified at said verification step that an image read instruction has been issued by the control panel of said image reading apparatus;
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- a receiving step of receiving, at said information processing terminal, image data which is the result of said image reading apparatus reading the image in response to the command for image reading.
A computer readable program, stored on a storage medium, for controlling an information processing terminal in an image reading system having an image reading apparatus for reading the image on a document and outputting image data representing the image, and said information processing terminal into which the image data output by said image reading apparatus is entered, said information processing terminal being externally connected to said image reading apparatus, said program comprising:
- program code for verifying whether an image read instruction has been issued by said image reading apparatus;
- program code for commanding said image reading apparatus to start reading of the image on the document by said image reading apparatus if the image read instruction has been issued from said image reading apparatus;
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- program code for receiving image data which is the result of said image reading apparatus reading the image in response to an image read command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.