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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2004
Tanna Marie Richardson, Happy Valley, OR (US);
Shinsaku Tohki, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Masaya Ishihara, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Tetsuya Shibata, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Tanna Marie Richardson, Happy Valley, OR (US);
Shinsaku Tohki, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Masaya Ishihara, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Tetsuya Shibata, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for generating passive metadata from user interface selections at an imaging device includes an imaging device and at least one destination having at least one controllable setting. The imaging device preferably includes a document imaging system for capturing an image file, a user interface system for accepting passive data user input pertaining to the image file, a data conversion system for converting the passive data into a metadata file, and a transmission system for transmitting the image file and an associated metadata file through a network to at least one destination. The passive data affects at least one controllable setting of the destination. Passive data may be, for example, routing information, user information, file formatting instructions, and/or billing information. The present invention may also include a method for delivering documents that includes the steps of capturing an image file, accepting user input as passive data using a user interface system, converting the passive data into a metadata file, transmitting the image file and an associated metadata file through a data transmission network to a destination, and affecting at least one controllable setting of the destination according to the passive data in the metadata file.