US 8,553,258 B2Granted

Image communication system, image reading device and communication device with evaluation information indicates re-reading of the image is necessary includes an additional image corresponding to the image data

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorTomoki Nakamura

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Abstract

An image communication system, comprising an image reading device; and a communication device, wherein the image reading device comprises an image reading unit; a transmission unit to transmit the image date to a communication device; an evaluation information receiving unit to receive evaluation information indicating that re-reading of the image is necessary from the communication device; and a display unit to display the evaluation information, and wherein the communication device comprises: an image data receiving unit to receive the image data; an image data display unit to display an image corresponding to the image data; a command reception unit to receive an execution command for executing re-reading of the displayed image; an evaluation information generation unit to generate the evaluation information in response to receipt of the execution command; and an information transmission unit to transmit the evaluation information to the image reading device.

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Dependent claims

An image communication system, comprising:

an image reading device;
and
a communication device which is communicatably connected to the image reading device,
wherein the image reading device comprises:
an image reading unit configured to execute a reading operation to read an image from a document to generate image data corresponding to the read image;
a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data generated by the image reading unit to the communication device;
an evaluation information receiving unit configured to receive evaluation information from the communication device, wherein the evaluation information indicates that re-reading of the image corresponding to the image data transmitted to the communication device is necessary and includes an additional image corresponding to the image data;
and
a display unit configured to display the evaluation information received by the evaluation information receiving unit,
wherein the communication device comprises:
an image data receiving unit configured to receive the image data from the image reading device communicatably connected to the communication device;
an image data display unit configured to display the image corresponding to the image data received by the image data receiving unit;
an additional image input unit configured to input the additional image corresponding to the image data;
a command reception unit configured to receive an execution command for executing re-reading of the image corresponding to the image data displayed by the image data display unit;
an evaluation information generation unit configured such that, in response to receipt of the execution command by the command reception unit, the evaluation information generation unit generates the evaluation information which indicates that re-reading of the image corresponding to the image data indicated by the execution command is necessary and includes the additional image, corresponding to the image data, inputted by the additional image input unit of the communication device;
and
an information transmission unit configured to transmit the evaluation information generated by the evaluation information generation unit, including the additional image inputted by the additional image input unit, to the image reading device.

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An image reading device, comprising:

an image reading unit configured to execute a reading operation to read an image from a document to generate image data corresponding to the read image;
a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data generated by the image reading unit to a communication device which is communicatably connected to the image reading device;
an evaluation information receiving unit configured to receive evaluation information from the communication device, wherein the evaluation information indicates that re-reading of the image corresponding to the image data transmitted to the communication device is necessary and includes an additional image, corresponding to the image data, inputted by an additional image input unit of the communication device;
and
a display unit configured to display the evaluation information received by the evaluation information receiving unit, such that the additional image inputted by the additional image input unit of the communication device is displayed on the display unit of the image reading device.

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A communication device, comprising:

an image data receiving unit configured to receive image data from an image reading device communicatably connected to the communication device;
an image data display unit configured to display an image corresponding to the image data received by the image data receiving unit;
an additional image input unit configured to input an additional image for the corresponding image data;
a command reception unit configured to receive an execution command for executing re-reading of the image corresponding to the image data displayed by the image data display unit;
and
an evaluation information generation unit configured such that, in response to receipt of the execution command by the command reception unit, wherein the evaluation information generation unit generates evaluation information indicating that re-reading of the image corresponding to the image data indicated by the execution command is necessary and including the additional image, corresponding to the image data, inputted by the additional image input unit;
and
an information transmission unit configured to transmit the evaluation information generated by the evaluation information generation unit, including the additional image inputted by the additional image input unit, to the image reading device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.