Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and non-transitory recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12294680-B2
Application number	US-202418602279-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 12, 2024
Priority date	Mar 20, 2023
Publication date	May 6, 2025
Grant date	May 6, 2025

Abstract

An image reading apparatus includes a scanner to read a document, a memory to store an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner, and circuitry to identify a user, send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition, determine whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document, search a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document, and display, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An image reading apparatus comprising:
a scanner to read a document;
a memory to store an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner; and
circuitry configured to:
identify a user;
send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition;
determine whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document;
search a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document; and
display, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.

2. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry is further configured to display, on the screen, a change screen to change the address and the job condition when the document read by the scanner has not been sent to the address under the job condition.

3. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
search the number of times to send the confidential documents to the address under the job condition in the memory; and
display, on the screen,
a message whether to send the document under the job condition; and
a proposal of a change of the job condition.

4. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry is further configured to identify the user by using an address book stored in a memory in a server outside the image reading apparatus.

5. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry is further configured to display, on a screen, whether to send the document determined as the confidential document to the address when it is a first time to send the document determined as the confidential document to the address.

6. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
perform an optical character reading to read the document read by the scanner; and
determine the type of the document read by the optical character reading.

7. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry is further configured to determine the type of the document determined by the user as a type of the document read by the scanner.

8. An image reading method comprising:
reading a document by a scanner;
identifying a user;
storing an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner in a memory;
sending the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition;
determining whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document;
searching a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document; and
displaying, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.

9. A non-transitory recording medium storing multiple instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform a method, comprising:
reading a document by a scanner;
identifying a user;
storing an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner in a memory;
sending the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition; and
determining whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document;
searching a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document; and
displaying, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.

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

• H04N1/0084

  Determining the necessity for prevention · CPC title

• H04N1/00482 Primary

  outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution · CPC title

• H04N1/00859 Primary

  Issuing an alarm or the like · CPC title