Image processing apparatus and system and method for transmitting an image
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazunobu Takahashi
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a reading unit that reads an image from a sheet to generate image data. A code generation unit generates a code representing an email address of the image processing apparatus. A display unit displays the code. A control unit receives an email transmitted from a transmission source to the email address of the image processing apparatus and transmits an email with the image data attached to an email address of the transmission source.
Claims20
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- an image reading sensor configured to read an image from a sheet to generate image data;
- a display device;
- a communication interface;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- generate a code that can be scanned to determine an email address of the image processing apparatus,
- control the display device to display the code so that a user can scan the code on the display device with a user terminal,
- control the communication interface to receive an email transmitted from the user terminal that scanned the code to the email address of the image processing apparatus,
- based on the received email, identify the image data and the email address of the user terminal, and
- control the communication interface to transmit an email, with the image data attached, to the identified email address of the user terminal.
An image processing method comprising the steps of:
- reading an image from a sheet to generate image data;
- storing the image data in a storage location;
- generating a code that can be scanned to determine the storage location;
- displaying the code on a display device so that a user can scan the code on the display device with a user terminal;
- receiving an email transmitted from the user terminal that scanned the code;
- based on the received email, identifying the image data and an email address of the user terminal;
- and
- transmitting an email with the image data attached to the identified email address of the user terminal.
An image processing method comprising the steps of:
- scanning, with a user terminal, a code representing a storage location of image data read from a sheet, wherein the storage location is external to the user terminal and the code is scanned from a display different from a display of the user terminal;
- determining, based on the scanned code, the storage location of the image data;
- transmitting, from the user terminal to the storage location represented by the code, a request for transmission of the image data stored in the storage location represented by the code;
- and
- receiving the image data on the user terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.