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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2004
Yuji Okamoto, Kyoto, JP;
Katsuyoshi Fujiwara, Osaka, JP;
Naofumi Ueda, Kyoto, JP;
Tatsuo Nomura, Kyoto, JP;
Syouichirou Yoshiura, Nara, JP;
Yuji Okamoto, Kyoto, JP;
Katsuyoshi Fujiwara, Osaka, JP;
Naofumi Ueda, Kyoto, JP;
Tatsuo Nomura, Kyoto, JP;
Syouichirou Yoshiura, Nara, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
It is an object to provide an image processing system, an information processing apparatus and a computer program, capable of utilizing a data protection function possessed by the image processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus connected to a communication network together with one or more image processing apparatuses acquires from each of the image processing apparatuses a protection function information which indicates whether or not an image processing apparatus has a data protection function for protecting data by encrypting or the like, and intensity information representing an intensity of data protection of the data protection function. The information processing apparatus outputs a list of the image processing apparatuses together with a key mark and security level representing the intensity of data protection in numeral about each image processing apparatus having the data protection function so as to accept selection of the image processing apparatus by which an image is processed.