Image processing device and image data transmission method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshihide Terao
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Abstract
An image processing device includes: a reading unit to read information stored in a detachable storage medium; a transmission unit to transmit image data outwardly; a determination unit to determine, in a case where the transmission unit transmits the image data, whether or not the information stored in the detachable storage medium is necessary; and a control unit to execute, in a case where the determination unit determines that the information stored in the detachable storage medium is necessary, control to maintain a state capable of reading the information stored in the detachable storage medium until the reading unit reads from the detachable storage medium the information necessary to transmit the image data.
Claims7
An image processing device comprising:
- a reading unit configured to read information stored in a detachable storage medium, wherein the information stored in the detachable storage medium includes a private key;
- a transmission unit configured to transmit image data outwardly;
- a detection unit configured to detect occurrence of a factor for changing a state of permitting the reading unit to read the information stored in the detachable storage medium to a state of inhibiting the reading unit from reading the information stored in the detachable storage medium;
- a determination unit configured to determine, in a case where the transmission unit transmits the image data, whether or not the information stored in the detachable storage medium is necessary;
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- a control unit configured to execute, in a case where the detection unit detects the occurrence and the determination unit determines that the information stored in the detachable storage medium is necessary, control to maintain a state capable of reading the information stored in the detachable storage medium until the reading unit reads from the detachable storage medium the information necessary to transmit the image data, and to execute, in a case where the detection unit detects the occurrence and the determination unit determines that the information stored in the detachable storage medium is not necessary, control to change the state to the state of inhibiting the reading unit from reading the information stored in the detachable storage medium.
An image data transmission method which is applied to an image processing device including a reading unit configured to read information stored in a detachable storage medium, the method comprising the steps of:
- accepting an execution instruction of a transmission job for transmitting image data outwardly;
- detecting occurrence of a factor for changing a state of permitting the reading unit to read the information stored in the detachable storage medium to a state of inhibiting the reading unit from reading the information stored in the detachable storage medium;
- determining, in a case where the transmission job of which the execution instruction was accepted in the accepting step is executed, whether or not the information stored in the detachable storage medium is necessary, wherein the information stored in the detachable storage medium includes a private key;
- executing the transmission job of which the execution instruction was accepted in the accepting step;
- executing, in a case where the occurrence is detected and it is determined in the determining step that the information stored in the detachable storage medium is necessary to execute the transmission job, control to maintain a state capable of reading the information stored in the detachable storage medium until the information necessary in the transmitting step is read from the detachable storage medium;
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- executing, in a case where the occurrence is detected and it is determined that the information stored in the detachable storage medium is not necessary, control to change the state to the state of inhibiting the reading unit from reading the information stored in the detachable storage medium.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program that when executed by a computerized image processing device, including a reading unit configured for reading information stored in a detachable storage medium, causes the image processing device to execute an image data transmission method comprising the steps of:
- accepting an execution instruction of a transmission job for transmitting image data outwardly;
- detecting occurrence of a factor for changing a state of permitting the reading unit to read the information stored in the detachable storage medium to a state of inhibiting the reading unit from reading the information stored in the detachable storage medium;
- determining, in a case where the transmission job of which the execution instruction was accepted in the accepting step is executed, whether or not the information stored in the detachable storage medium is necessary, wherein the information stored in the detachable storage medium includes a private key;
- executing the transmission job of which the execution instruction was accepted in the accepting step;
- executing, in a case where the occurrence is detected and it is determined in the determining step that the information stored in the detachable storage medium is necessary to execute the transmission job, control to maintain a state capable of reading the information stored in the detachable storage medium until the information necessary in the transmitting step is read from the detachable storage medium;
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- executing, in a case where the occurrence is detected and it is determined that the information stored in the detachable storage medium is not necessary, control to change the state to the state of inhibiting the reading unit from reading the information stored in the detachable storage medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.