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US 8,619,281 B2Granted
Device capable of extracting copy prohibition information and control method thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoya Kakutani
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Abstract
In a copying machine that installs the function of preventing unauthorized copying, when copy prohibition information is extracted, whether output is permitted or prohibited in each of different types of output processing is set, and, when the copy prohibition information is extracted from a document image, if a setting for permitting the output in the output processing in which an output start is instructed is made, the output is performed.
Claims14
A device including an output unit configured to output a document image using one output type selected from a plurality of output types, the device comprising:
- a holding unit configured to hold a setting as to whether or not to permit each type of the plurality of output types;
- a reception unit configured to receive, from a user, a specification as to which output type is to be used;
- a reading unit configured to read a document to obtain a document image after the reception of the specification;
- a first determination unit configured to determine, after the document is read, whether or not the obtained document image includes output inhibition information;
- a second determination unit configured to determine, after the document is read, whether or not the output type specified by the user is permitted according to the setting in the holding unit;
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- a control unit configured to control the output unit, after the determinations by the first and second determination units,
- to output the document image with the specified output type, in a case that the obtained document image has been determined to include the output inhibition information and the specified output type has been determined to be permitted, and
- not to output the document image in the specified output type, in a case that the obtained document image has been determined to include the output inhibition information and the specified output type has been determined not to be permitted.
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A control method for a device including an output unit configured to output a document image using one output type selected from a plurality of output types, the method comprising:
- a holding step of holding a setting as to whether or not to permit each output type of the plurality of output types;
- a reception step of receiving, from a user, a specification as to which output type is to be used;
- a reading step of reading a document to obtain a document image, after the reception step;
- a first determination step of determining whether or not the obtained document image includes output inhibition information, after the reading step;
- a second determination step of determining whether or not the output type specified by the user is permitted according to the setting, after the reading step;
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- a control step of controlling the output unit, after the determinations in the first and second determination steps,
- to output the document image with the specified output type, in a case that the obtained document image includes the output inhibition information and the specified output type has been determined to be permitted, and
- not to output the document image with the specified output type, in a case that the obtained document image has been determined to include the output inhibition information and the specified output type has been determined not to be permitted.
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A device including an output unit configured to output a document image using one output type selected from a plurality of output types, the device comprising:
- a holding unit configured to hold a setting as to whether or not to permit each output type of the plurality of output types;
- a reception unit configured to receive, from a user, a specification as to which type of output type is to be used;
- a reading unit configured to read a document to obtain a document image, after the reception by the reception unit;
- a first determination unit configured to determine, after the reading by the reading unit, whether or not the obtained document image includes output inhibition information or conditional output permission information;
- a second determination unit configured to determine, after the reading by the reading unit, whether or not the output type specified by the user is permitted according to the setting;
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- a control unit configured to control the output unit, after the determinations of the first and second determination units,
- to output the document image with the specified output type, in a case that the obtained document image has been determined to include the output inhibition information and the specified output type has been determined to be permitted,
- not to output the document image with the specified output type, in a case that the obtained document image has been determined to include the output inhibition information and the specified output type has been determined not to be permitted,
- to output the document image with the specified output type, in a case that the obtained document image has been determined not to include the output inhibition information or the conditional output permission information and the specified output type has been determined to be inhibited, and
- to output the document image with the specified output type, in a case that the obtained document image has been determined to include the conditional output permission information and the specified output type has been determined to be permitted, without determining whether a condition of the conditional output permission information is satisfied.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.