US 9,179,017 B2Granted

Image processing apparatus and method for processing an image which utilizes a first mode for instructions from the image processing apparatus and a second mode for instructions received from an external apparatus and for instructions from the image processing apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorAyako Hirose

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Abstract

A processing apparatus capable of connecting to an external apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an instruction to the processing apparatus regarding a process from the external apparatus, an instruction unit that instructs the processing apparatus to execute a process, and a setting unit that sets a type of process to be executed when the instruction unit has made an instruction. In a first mode, the process based on the instruction from the instruction unit is executed and in a second mode, the process based on the instruction from the instruction unit and the process based on the instruction received by the reception unit are executed. After the second mode is cancelled and the first mode is established, the setting unit sets a predetermined type of process as the type of process to be executed when the instruction unit has made an instruction.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A processing apparatus capable of performing a plurality of types of processes and connecting to an external apparatus, the processing apparatus comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive an instruction regarding a process to the processing apparatus from the external apparatus;
an instruction unit configured to instruct the processing apparatus to execute a process, the instruction unit being provided on the processing apparatus;
and
a setting unit configured to set a type of process to the instruction unit from the plurality of types of processes in accordance with a type of process of the instruction received by the reception unit,
wherein the processing apparatus includes,
a first mode in which the processing apparatus is able to execute a predetermined type of process set to the instruction unit based on the instruction made by the instruction unit and a second mode in which a process based on the instruction made by the instruction unit and the a process based on the instruction received by the reception unit are able to be executed independently of each other,
wherein, if the processing apparatus is in the second mode, the type of process set to the instruction unit is changed in accordance with a type of process of the instruction received by the reception unit,
wherein, in a case where the setting unit sets the type of process based on the instruction received by the reception unit in the second mode, the type of process set by setting unit is able to be executed based on the instruction made by the instruction unit in the second mode, and
wherein, after the second mode is cancelled and the first mode is established, the setting unit sets the predetermined type of process as the type of process to the instruction unit.

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A method for controlling a processing apparatus capable of performing a plurality of types of processes and connecting to an external apparatus, the processing apparatus including an instruction unit configured to instruct the processing apparatus to execute a process, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving an instruction regarding a process to the processing apparatus from the external apparatus;
setting a type of process to the instruction unit from the plurality of types of processes in accordance with a type of process of the received instruction;
and
causing the image processing apparatus to execute a process,
wherein the image processing apparatus includes,
a first mode in which the processing apparatus is able to execute a predetermined type of process set to the instruction unit based on the instruction made by the instruction unit, and
a second mode in which a process based on the instruction made by the instruction unit and a process based on the received instruction are able to be executed independently of each other,
wherein, if the processing apparatus is in the second mode, the type of process set to the instruction unit is changed in accordance with a type of process of the received instruction,
wherein, in a case where the type of process is set based on the received instruction in the second mode, the type of process being set based on the received instruction is able to be executed based on the instruction made by the instruction unit in the second mode, and
wherein the method further includes setting, after the second mode is cancelled and the first mode is established, the predetermined type of process as the type of process to the instruction unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/903,578Filed 28 May 2013
Priority: JP 2012-1313008 Jun 2012
Published: US 2013/0329242 A112 Dec 2013
Granted: 3 Nov 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04N 1/00222
Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax: details of…
H04N 1/00973
Input arrangements for operating instructions or parameters, e.g. updating internal software: from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the…
H04N 1/00464
Display of information to the user, e.g. menus: using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
H04N 1/00474
Output means: outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print