Image reading device determining transmission destination

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12177396-B2
Application number	US-202318389230-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 14, 2023
Priority date	Nov 29, 2022
Publication date	Dec 24, 2024
Grant date	Dec 24, 2024

Abstract

An image reading device, an image reading method, a non-transitory recording medium, and an information processing system. The image reading device includes a scanner to read a document into an image, determines a document type of the document based on the image, determines whether to confirm the predetermined destination based on a frequency with which an image of the determined document type is transmitted to the predetermined destination, displays on a display, a screen to confirm the predetermined destination based on a determination indicating that the predetermined destination is to be confirmed, and transmits the image to the predetermined destination based on a confirmation.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An image reading device comprising:
a scanner to read a document into an image, the image to be transmitted to a predetermined destination; and
circuitry configured to:
determine a document type of the document based on the image;
determine whether to confirm the predetermined destination based on a frequency with which an image of the determined document type is transmitted to the predetermined destination;
display, on a display, a screen to confirm the predetermined destination based on a determination indicating that the predetermined destination is to be confirmed; and
transmit the image to the predetermined destination based on a confirmation, wherein
the circuitry is further configured to determine that the predetermined destination is to be confirmed in a case the image of the determined document type was sent to the predetermined destination more than a predetermined period of time ago.

2. The image reading device of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
identify a user using the image reading device referring to an address book server external to the image reading device;
record a transmission history including a destination to which the user has transmitted the image in the past, on a history management server external to the image reading device; and
determine whether the predetermined destination is a destination used for the first time by the user based on the transmission history, the determination indicating whether to confirm the predetermined destination according to the frequency including a result of the determination based on the transmission history.

3. The image reading device of claim 1 , wherein
the circuitry is configured to determine that the predetermined destination is to be confirmed based on a determination that a transmission of the image of the determined document type to the predetermined destination is the first time.

4. The image reading device of claim 1 , wherein
the circuitry is configured to determine the document type using a character recognition technology.

5. The image reading device of claim 1 , wherein
the circuitry is configured to determine the document type based on a document type input by a user.

6. The image reading device of claim 1 , wherein the frequency with which the image of the determined document type is transmitted to the predetermined destination is obtained from a transmission history database in which at least the destination to which the image is transmitted, the document type of the transmitted document determined based on the image, and the number of times the image of the determined document type is transmitted to the destination are stored.

7. An image reading method comprising:
reading a document into an image;
receiving input or selection of a predetermined destination to which the image is sent;
determining a document type of the document;
determining whether to confirm the predetermined destination based on a frequency with which the image of the determined document type is transmitted to the predetermined destination;
displaying, on a display, a screen to confirm the predetermined destination based on a determination indicating that the predetermined destination is to be confirmed; and
transmitting the image to the predetermined destination based on a confirmation, wherein the method further comprises determining that the predetermined destination is confirmed in a case the image of the determined document type was sent to the predetermined destination more than a predetermined period of time ago.

8. A non-transitory recording medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, causes the processors to perform the image reading method of claim 7 .

9. The image reading method claim 7 , wherein the frequency with which the image of the determined document type is transmitted to the predetermined destination is obtained from a transmission history database in which at least the destination to which the image is transmitted, the document type of the transmitted document determined based on the image, and the number of times the image of the determined document type is transmitted to the destination are stored.

Assignees

• Yokoyama Akira
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yokoyama Akira

Classifications

• H04N1/00824

  for displaying or indicating, e.g. a condition or state (details of displaying or indicating means H04N1/00405) · CPC title

• H04N1/0001 Primary

  Transmission systems or arrangements · CPC title

• H04N1/00042

  Monitoring, i.e. observation (H04N1/00029 - H04N1/00039 take precedence) · CPC title

• H04N1/00013

  Reading apparatus · CPC title

• H04N1/00816

  Determining the reading area, e.g. eliminating reading of margins · CPC title