Image reading apparatus and method for controlling image reading apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9756214-B2
Application number	US-201615135195-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 21, 2016
Priority date	Apr 24, 2015
Publication date	Sep 5, 2017
Grant date	Sep 5, 2017

Abstract

The image reading apparatus including a reading unit configured read an image of a document according to a read request transmitted from an external device, includes a detection unit configured to detect a state of the document to be read by the reading unit, a reception unit configured to receive a request from the external device to obtain a state of the image reading apparatus, a power supply unit configured to, in a power saving state where power supply to the reading unit and the detection unit is stopped, supply power to the detection unit based on the reception of the request, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the state of the document to be read by the reading unit detected by the detection unit to which the power is supplied by the power supply unit, to the external device as a response to the request.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image reading apparatus including a reader which reads an image of a document according to a read request transmitted from an external device, the image reading apparatus comprising:
a sensor which detects a document to be read by the reader;
a network interface which receives a state acquisition request from the external device; and
a controller which, on the basis that the network interface receives the state acquisition request when the image reading apparatus is in a power saving state where power supply to the reader and the sensor is stopped, performs control so that power is supplied to the sensor,
wherein the network interface transmits a state of the document detected by the sensor to which the power has been supplied, to the external device as a response to the state acquisition request.

2. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the read request and the state acquisition request are transmitted from a scan driver executed in the external device.

3. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the network interface further transmits an execution state of the reader and information indicating that there is an error occurring in the reader as the response to the state acquisition request, in addition to the state of the document.

4. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller, on the basis that the network interface receives the state acquisition request when the image reading apparatus is in the power saving state, performs control so that power is supplied to the sensor in a state that power supply to the reader is stopped.

5. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the state acquisition request is a request transmitted according to a predetermined protocol.

6. The image reading apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the controller, if the state acquisition request transmitted according to the predetermined protocol is received, performs control so that power is supplied to the sensor, and wherein, if a state acquisition request not according to the predetermined protocol is received, power is not supplied to the sensor.

7. The image reading apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the network interface, if the state acquisition request not according to the predetermined protocol is received, transmits previously-stored information indicating the state of the document without updating the previously-stored information indicating the state of the document.

8. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller performs control so that power is supplied to the reader based on the reception of the read request made by the network interface.

9. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the read request includes a first read request that the reader reads a document placed on an automatic document conveyance apparatus, or a second read request that the reader reads an image of a document placed on a transparent plate, and
wherein the reader, if the first read request is received, reads a document placed on the automatic document conveyance apparatus, and if the second read request is received, reads a document placed on the transparent plate.

10. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the network interface updates information indicating the state of the document detected by the sensor and transmits the updated information to the external device based on the reception of the state acquisition request.

11. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the state acquisition request is transmitted before the read request is transmitted.

12. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a printer that forms an image on a sheet.

13. The image reading apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the reader includes a reading part which reads an image of a document and a conveyance part which conveys a placed document to the reading part.

14. A method for controlling an image reading apparatus including a reader which reads an image of a document and a sensor which detects the document to be read by the reader according to a read request transmitted from an external device, the method comprising:
receiving a state acquisition request from the external device when the image reading apparatus is in a power saving state where power supply to the reader and the sensor is stopped;
supplying power to the sensor based on the reception of the state acquisition request; and
transmitting the state of the document to be read by the reader detected by the sensor, to the external device as a response to the state acquisition request.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program which, when run on a device, causes the device to execute a method according to claim 14 .

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Kogure Takeshi

Classifications

• H04N1/00082

  Adjusting or controlling (interrupting an operation H04N1/00915; inhibiting an operation H04N1/00925) · CPC title

• H04N1/00079 Primary

  remotely · CPC title

• H04N2201/0094

  Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception · CPC title

• H04N1/00824

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

• H04N1/00013 Primary

  Reading apparatus · CPC title