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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
May. 02, 2008
Ryotaro Imine, Machida, JP;
Ryotaro Imine, Machida, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides an image outputting apparatus and a control method thereof, accommodated to a contradictory need of security improvement and TCO reduction in a rational manner. An embodiment of the present invention performs a setting of a black-and-white copy output by receiving an instruction from a user to output a black-and-white copy of a read document. Then, an LVBC extraction part and an LVBC color determining part determine whether the read document includes a color LVBC. An image-output controlling part outputs a color output of the read document when the read document has been determined to include color coded information, despite the setting of a black-and-white copy output.