Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sho Tsujimoto

Kazuma Ogawa

Kazuhiro Mizude

Tatsuya Fujisaki

An image formation apparatus includes an accepting portion that accepts authentication information for identifying whether a user is an authorized user having a right to use the image formation apparatus; an authenticator that authenticates whether the user is the authorized user, based on the authentication information accepted by the accepting portion; and an adder that adds, to an image to be printed, tracking information including information for specifying the user authenticated as the authorized user by the authenticator. If the authentication information accepted by the accepting portion is single identification information, the adder adds, as the tracking information, to the image, user specifying information for specifying the user authenticated as the authorized user, the user specifying information being different from the single identification information.

Image formation apparatus and method for controlling image formation apparatus with specifying user tracking information

The present invention provides an image reading apparatus including: a scanner that scans originals by a batch-scan that are placed on an original table; an original reading circuitry that reads an image of each of the scanned originals, and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry executes a continuous multi-crop process according to a selection by a user, and when the continuous multi-crop process is executed, the control circuitry displays on the display one operation key that receives an instruction to start the next scan and another operation key that receives an instruction to end the reading respectively every time each batch-scan is executed to enable the batch-scan to be repeatedly executed until receiving the instruction to end the reading, and handles the images of the originals read by the repeated batch-scans as a series of image data.

Image reading apparatus

An image processing system includes plural image processing devices connected with each other by a network. In the one image processing device, in a case where a new job accepted by a job accepting unit may not be executed immediately, a control unit transmits image data related to the job to the other image processing device capable of image processing and causes the other image processing device to execute image processing. In the other image processing device, the control unit assesses whether or not an image processing result is to be returned to the one image processing device, and transmits the image processing result to the one image processing device to execute a final process if assessed to return the image processing result, but executes the final process of the image processing result in the other image processing device if assessed not to return the image processing result.

Image processing system, and method with one or more processing devices

An image reading apparatus includes a platen on which a document is to be placed; an image generating unit that performs scanning on the platen to generate a position detection image and an output image; a document position detecting unit that detects whether a document exists and a position of the document based on the generated position detection image; a document extracting unit that extract an area corresponding to the document from the generated output image; and a control unit that controls the image generating unit, the document position detecting unit, and the document extracting unit so as to output an image of the extracted document.

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Sho Tsujimoto