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US 8,351,059 B2Granted
Apparatus, system, and method of image processing, and recording medium storing image processing program
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorShinya Mori
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Abstract
An image input apparatus determines whether an image input apparatus that has sent image data is an authorized sender when storing of the image data to a specific storage area is detected. According to a determination result indicating that the image input apparatus is the authorized sender, the image input apparatus applying one or more processes to the image data.
Claims18
An image processing apparatus configured to connect to an image input apparatus through a network, the apparatus comprising:
- an image data obtaining device configured to store image data sent from the image input apparatus through the network in a specific storage area and to store sender identification information for identifying the image input apparatus in association with the obtained image data;
- an authorization management data storage device configured to store authorization management data that associates registered sender identification information for identifying a registered image input apparatus and authorization information indicating whether the registered image input apparatus is an authorized sender;
- an entry controller device configured to monitor the specific storage area to detect whether the image data is stored in the specific storage area, to determine whether the image input apparatus is the authorized sender by referring to the authorization information of the registered image input apparatus that matches the sender identification information of the image input apparatus to generate a determination result when storing of the image data in the specific storage area is detected, and to enter the image data for further processing according to the determination result indicating that the image input apparatus is the authorized sender;
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- a flow controller device configured to obtain flow data defining a sequence of one or more processes, and to apply the sequence of one or more processes to the entered image data according to the flow data.
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An image processing system, comprising:
- an image processing apparatus;
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- an image input apparatus connected to the image processing apparatus through a network, wherein:
- the image processing apparatus includes:
- an image data obtaining device configured to store image data sent from the image input apparatus through the network in a specific storage area and to store sender identification information for identifying the image input apparatus in association with the obtained image data;
- an authorization management data storage device configured to store authorization management data that associates registered sender identification information for identifying a registered image input apparatus and authorization information indicating whether the registered image input apparatus is an authorized sender;
- an entry controller device configured to monitor the specific storage area to detect whether the image data is stored in the specific storage area, to determine whether the image input apparatus is the authorized sender by referring to the authorization information of the registered image input apparatus that matches the sender identification information of the image input apparatus to generate a determination result when storing of the image data in the specific storage area is detected, and to enter the image data for further processing according to the determination result indicating that the image input apparatus is the authorized sender;
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- a flow controller device configured to obtain flow data defining a sequence of one or more processes, and to apply the sequence of one or more processes to the entered image data according to the flow data, and
- the image input apparatus includes:
- a user interface configured to receive a user instruction for requesting the image input apparatus to send the image data to the specific storage area;
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- an image data output device configured to send the image data to the image processing apparatus through the network while specifying the specific storage area.
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A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a plurality of instructions which cause an image processing apparatus configured to connect to an image input apparatus through a network to perform an image processing method, the method comprising:
- storing image data sent from the image input apparatus through the network in a specific storage area;
- storing sender identification information for identifying the image input apparatus in association with the obtained image data;
- storing authorization management data that associates registered sender identification information for identifying a registered image input apparatus and authorization information indicating whether the registered image input apparatus is an authorized sender;
- monitoring the specific storage area to detect whether the image data is stored in the specific storage area;
- determining whether the image input apparatus is the authorized sender by referring to the authorization information of the registered image input apparatus that matches the sender identification information of the image input apparatus to generate a determination result when storing of the image data in the specific storage area is detected;
- entering the image data for further processing according to the determination result indicating that the image input apparatus is the authorized sender;
- obtaining flow data defining a sequence of one or more processes;
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- applying the sequence of one or more processes to the entered image data according to the flow data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.