Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuto Oonuma
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Abstract
When an E-mail address is inputted, it is judged whether the E-mail address is an address registered in advance. If this judgment result is positive, an image read by a scan section is stored in a server 111, and an E-mail, with a URL indicating a location of the stored image, addressed to the E-mail address is generated. If the judgment result is negative, an E-mail addressed to the E-mail address and with an image read by the scan section is generated. The generated E-mail is transmitted.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a document table configured to set a document thereon;
- a scan section configured to optically read an image of the document set on said document table;
- an input section configured to input an E-mail address;
- a judging section configured to judge whether the E-mail address inputted by said input section is an address registered in advance;
- a storing section configured to store the image read by said scan section if the judgment result of said judging section is positive;
- a first generating section configured to generate an E-mail having the E-mail address inputted by said input section as its destination address, and with a URL indicating a location of the stored image, if the judgment result of said judging section is positive;
- a second generating section configured to generate an E-mail having the E-mail address inputted by said input section as its destination address, and with the image read by said scan section, if the judgment result of said judging section is negative;
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- a transmitting section configured to transmit the E-mails generated in said respective generating sections.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a document table for setting a document thereon;
- scan means for optically reading an image of the document set on said document table;
- input means for inputting an E-mail address;
- judging means for judging whether the E-mail address inputted by said input means is an address registered in advance;
- storing means for storing the image read by said scan means if the judgment result of said judging means is positive;
- first generating means for generating an E-mail having the E-mail address inputted by said input means as its destination address, and with a URL indicating a location of the stored image, if the judgment result of said judging means is positive;
- second generating means for generating an E-mail having the E-mail address inputted by said input means as its destination address, and with the image read by said scan means, if the judgment result of said judging means is negative;
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- transmitting means for transmitting the E-mails generated in said respective generating means.
A method of controlling an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus having:
- a document table which sets a document thereon;
- a scan section which optically reads an image of the document set on the document table;
- a print section which prints the image read by the scan section on copying paper,
- the method comprising:
- judging whether an inputted E-mail address is an address registered in advance;
- storing the image read by said scan section, if a result of the judging is positive;
- generating an E-mail having the inputted E-mail address as its destination address, and with a URL indicating a location of the stored image, if the result of the judging is positive;
- generating an E-mail having the inputted E-mail address as its destination address, and with the image read by said scan section, if the result of the judging section is negative;
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- transmitting the generated E-mails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.