Image storage program and image processing apparatus
AssigneeMinolta Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakeshi Morikawa, Hironobu Nakata, Kiyoshi Emori
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Abstract
Multiple user boxes are created beforehand in the hard disk drive of the MFP. The user specifies his own user box and saves image data therein. If the user extracts the image data from his user box and moves it to a folder on his own personal computer, the MFP 1 detects this action. When this user box is specified during a subsequent reading of image data, the storage destination for the image data is automatically deemed to be the folder on the personal computer to which the image data was previously moved.
Claims12
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program, which when executed by a central processing unit of a multi-function peripheral device, causes said central processing unit to perform a method, the method comprising:
- registering a location of a first storage destination of the multi-function peripheral device for image storage,
- wherein the first storage destination is internal to the multi-function peripheral device and is further designated to store image data for a single user, and
- wherein the multi-function peripheral device includes a plurality of other storage destinations designated to store image data for other users;
- storing, by the central processing unit, an image data in the registered first storage destination;
- monitoring, by the central processing unit, the first storage destination to determine if the image data has been moved by the user from the first storage destination to a second storage destination that is external to the multifunction peripheral device;
- updating, by the central processing unit, the location of the registered storage destination for storage of a subsequent image data to the second storage destination based on determination that the image data has been moved by the user to the second storage destination;
- notifying the user that the location of the storage destination has been updated;
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- automatically and without user intervention storing, by the central processing unit, the subsequent image data in the updated registered storage destination.
An image processing device, comprising:
- a storage device to store image data, the storage device comprising at least one first storage location to store image data designated for a single user,
- wherein the storage device includes a plurality of other storage destinations designated to store image data for other users;
- a register which registers the first storage location with a user for image storage as a registered storage location for storing image data associated with the user;
- a storage processor which stores image data at the registered storage destination;
- a detector which monitors the first storage destination to detect if the stored image data has been moved by the user from the first storage destination to a second storage destination location external to the image processing apparatus;
- an update processor which updates the location of the registered storage destination for storage of a subsequent image data designated for the user to the second storage location based on the detection by the detector that the image data has been moved to the second storage destination,
- wherein the storage processor automatically and without user intervention stores the subsequent image data in the updated registered storage destination;
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- a notification processor which notifies the user that the location of the registered storage location has been updated by the update processor.
A method executed by a central processing unit of a multi-function peripheral device comprising:
- registering a location of a first storage destination of the multi-function peripheral device for image storage,
- wherein the first storage destination is internal to the multi-function peripheral device and is further designated to store image data for a single user, and
- wherein the multi-function peripheral device includes a plurality of other storage destinations designated to store image data for other users;
- storing, by the central processing unit, an image data in the registered first storage destination;
- monitoring, by the central processing unit, the first storage destination to determine if the image data has been moved by the user from the first storage destination to a second storage destination that is external to the multifunction peripheral device;
- updating, by the central processing unit, the location of the registered storage destination for storage of a subsequent image data to the second storage destination based on determination that the image data has been moved by the user to the second storage destination;
- notifying the user that the location of the storage destination has been updated;
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- automatically and without user intervention storing the subsequent image data in the updated registered storage destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.