Image processing apparatus system for storing and retrieving setting information
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroaki Morita
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an authentication unit that authenticates a user and logs in the user when the user is authenticated. An input unit receives an input from the user indicating a setting of a function of the image processing apparatus. A setting management unit causes a storage unit to store setting information corresponding to the setting indicated by the input from the user, while the user is logged in, and to store the setting information when the user logs out. A setting state control unit retrieves the setting information of the user and sets a setting state of the image processing apparatus according to the retrieved setting information when the authentication unit logs in the user.
Claims15
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured as:
- an authentication unit that authenticates a user and logs in the user when the user is authenticated,
- an input unit that receives an input from the user indicating a setting for performing an image processing function of the image processing apparatus,
- a setting management unit that causes a storage unit to store setting information corresponding to the setting indicated by the input from the user when the user logs out, and
- a setting state control unit that retrieves the setting information of the user and sets a setting state of the image processing apparatus for performing the image processing function according to the retrieved setting information when the authentication unit logs in the user, wherein
- the storage unit is selected by the setting management unit from one of an internal storage unit and an external storage unit, based on a communication status between the image processing apparatus and the external storage unit.
An image processing apparatus system comprising:
- a plurality of image processing apparatuses;
- and
- a storage device connected to each of the plurality of image processing apparatuses through a network, wherein:
- each of the plurality of image processing apparatuses includes a processor configured as:
- an authentication unit that authenticates a user and logs in the user when the user is authenticated,
- an input unit that receives an input from the user indicating a setting for performing an image processing function of the image processing apparatus,
- a setting management unit that transmits to the storage device setting information corresponding to the setting indicated by the input from the user and stores the setting information when the user logs out, and
- a setting state control unit that retrieves the setting information of the user from the storage device and sets a setting state of the image processing apparatus for performing the image processing function according to the retrieved setting information when the authentication unit logs in the user, and
- the storage device includes:
- a communication unit configured to receive the setting information transmitted from each of the plurality of image processing apparatuses through the network, and
- a storage unit that stores the setting information received by the communication unit, wherein the storage unit is selected by the setting management unit from one of an internal storage unit and an external storage unit, based on a communication status between the image processing apparatus and the external storage unit.
An image processing method comprising the steps of:
- authenticating a login event corresponding to a user identification;
- receiving a setting for performing an image processing function of an image processing apparatus;
- causing a storage unit to store setting information corresponding to the setting at a logout event;
- and
- retrieving the setting information and setting a setting state of the image processing apparatus for performing the image processing function according to the retrieved setting information, when a new login event corresponding to the user identification is authenticated, wherein
- the storage unit is selected from one of an internal storage unit and an external storage unit, based on a communication status between the image processing apparatus and the external storage unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.