JPH10149061A - Digital composite machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the complicatedness of setting arm operating condition by an individual user, facilitate the access to individual information, and also protect the individual information by accumulating operating condition information in conformation to identification information, and displaying time operating condition on the basis of the operating condition information. SOLUTION: When an identification information protecting device 1 is inserted to an identification information input device 2, the ID number of a user recorded in the identification information holding device 1 is read and outputted to a CPU 5. The CPU 5 reads operating condition data stored in an operating condition accumulating device 4 on the basis of this ID number and displays a menu screen. Accordingly, the user can set the set content of operating condition displayed on the menu screen of a digital composite machine to the content of operating condition data of the user itself preliminarily recorded in the operating condition accumulating device 4 by inserting the identification information holding device 1 having the ID number identifying the user to the identification information input device 2. Thus, the complicatedness of setting the operating condition can be solved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to the setting of operating conditions for digital multifunction peripherals and management of image information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, office equipment such as a copier, a fax machine, a document filing system, and a printer have been combined by digital technology with the space saving in offices, and one apparatus has a plurality of functions. It has become. In such a digital MFP,
In order to set the operating conditions of the digital multi-function peripheral, the operating conditions have been set using a menu screen or the like displayed on a touch panel or the like because of having a plurality of usage modes. However, setting operation conditions every time the digital multifunction peripheral is used involves a troublesome task, and thus default values have been generally used as operation conditions in an initial state. In a document filing system, a document file is accessed by inputting a document file name from input means such as a touch panel and a keyboard.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional digital multifunction peripheral, the individual users generally share the digital multifunction peripheral rather than occupying the digital multifunction peripheral. Is different for individual users. In addition, there are many cases where the digital multi-function peripheral is used with the same condition setting as the last use, but even in such a case, since the operation conditions are set to the default values, there is a problem that it is necessary to reset them. . In addition, when document information and the like are stored in a shared storage medium, access to personal information is easy,
There is a security issue with personal information.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a digital multifunction peripheral that solves the above-mentioned problems, eliminates the complexity of setting operation conditions by individual users, facilitates access to personal information, and protects personal information. The purpose is to provide.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a digital multi-function peripheral which stores identification information for identifying a user and inputs the identification information obtained from the identification information holding means. Identification information input means, operation condition accumulation means for accumulating a plurality of sets of operation condition information in association with the identification information, and operation conditions based on operation condition information selected from the operation condition accumulation means based on the identification information Information editing means for displaying

In the first invention, the operation condition information of the user himself stored in the operation condition holding means is extracted based on the identification information of the user held by the identification information holding means. Then, the information editing means displays the operation condition on a screen or the like based on the operation condition information. For this reason, the setting contents of the operation condition displayed on the screen of the digital multifunction peripheral can be the contents of the operation condition data of the user himself recorded in the operation condition storage means in advance, which makes the operation condition setting complicated. Can be eliminated.

[0007] The digital multifunction peripheral according to the second invention comprises:
Operating condition holding means for holding a set of operating condition information, operating condition input / output means for inputting operating condition information obtained from the operating condition holding means and outputting operating condition information to the operating condition holding means, and the operating condition And information editing means for displaying operation conditions based on the information.

In the second invention, the operation condition input / output means extracts the user operation condition information held by the operation condition holding means. Then, the information editing unit displays the operation conditions on a screen or the like based on the operation condition information. For this reason, the setting contents of the operation conditions displayed on the screen of the digital multi-function peripheral can be the contents of the operation condition data of the user himself recorded in the operation condition holding means in advance, which makes the operation condition setting complicated. Can be eliminated.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a digital multifunction peripheral, comprising: identification information holding means for holding identification information relating to a user; identification information input means for inputting the identification information obtained from the identification information holding means; Image information storage means for storing search information for searching information in association with the search information; and information editing means for displaying the search information for selecting image information stored in the image information storage means. I do.

In the third invention, image information and search information corresponding to the identification information are extracted from the image information storage means based on the identification information of the user held by the identification information holding means. Then, the information editing means displays a search image or the like based on the search information. Then, the user selects image information based on a search image or the like. Therefore, the user can easily access the user's own image information stored in the image information storage means. At the same time, in order to access the image information in the image information storage means, the identification information of the user who is the owner of the image information is required,
The security of image information is also increased.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a digital multifunction peripheral, comprising: image management information holding means for holding image management information having image identification information for identifying image information and search information for searching for image information; An image management information input / output unit for inputting the image management information obtained from the image management information holding unit and outputting the image management information to the image management information holding unit; an image for storing image information in pair with the image identification information The image processing apparatus further includes an information storage unit, and an information editing unit that displays search information of the image management information to select image information stored in the image information storage unit.

In a fourth aspect, the information editing means comprises:
A search image or the like is displayed based on the search information held by the image management information holding unit, and the user selects image information based on the search image or the like. Image information corresponding to the image identification information is extracted from the image information storage based on the image identification information corresponding to the selected search information held by the image management information holding unit. Therefore, the user can easily access the user's own image information stored in the image information storage means. At the same time, in order to access the image information of the image information storage means, the image identification information of the image management information holding means is required, so that the security of the image information is enhanced.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

<< Embodiment 1 >> This embodiment relates to a digital multi-function peripheral of the present invention whose system configuration is shown in FIG. First,
The system configuration of the digital multifunction peripheral shown in FIG. 1 will be described. The identification information holding device 1 is a magnetic card or an IC.
A unique ID number is recorded in the identification information holding device 1 as information for identifying a user. Note that, other than the magnetic card and the IC card, a portable information terminal or the like having the digital multifunction peripheral and communication means such as infrared rays may be used as the identification information holding device 1. The identification information input device 2 is provided with detection means such as an optical system for detecting that the identification information holding device 1 has been inserted, reads an ID number recorded in the identification information holding device 1, and sends the ID number to the CPU 5. Is output. The information editing device 3 includes a display unit such as a liquid crystal panel for displaying an initial screen and a menu screen, an input unit such as a pressure-sensitive sensor incorporated in the liquid crystal panel, operation keys such as numeric keys for inputting numerical data, and control for controlling them. And a part. The operation condition storage device 4 is composed of a nonvolatile memory or the like, and the operation condition storage device 4 stores operation condition data of each user registered in the digital MFP. However, the operation condition data of each user, as shown in FIG. 9, is composed of the user's ID number and various operation conditions such as the number of copies, zoom ratio, copy density, contrast, etc., and data relating to rewriting designation of the operation condition. . Then, the information editing device 3 creates a menu screen based on the component display data created from the operation condition data. However, the part display data is composed of a part number, a type code, a size, a display character, a display position, and the like of a display part such as a button that forms a menu screen. Also,
When a button on the menu screen is pressed, the information editing device 3 outputs the part number of the pressed button to the CPU 5.
Also, when the operation key is pressed, the part number of the pressed operation key is output to the CPU 5. The CPU 5 controls a processing unit connected to the system bus 12 and inputs and outputs data between the identification information input device 2 and the information editing device 3.
The image information storage device 6 is a hard disk drive (hereinafter, referred to as a hard disk drive).
An image information storage device 6 stores image information. The scanner interface 7 controls input / output of the scanner 70 (hereinafter, I / O control).
O control). The scanner 70 reads a document and converts it into digital image data. The printer interface 8 performs I / O control of the printer 80. The printer 80 prints an image on paper. The fax interface 9 is connected to a modem or a network controller (network).
It is composed of a control unit (NCU) and the like, and transmits and receives fax data. Public line network (published switched telephone network: hereafter referred to as P
STN (abbreviated as STN) 90 is a network constituting a communication path for fax data. Image processing module 10
Performs image processing such as enlargement, reduction, and rotation of an image, and compression and expansion of digital image data. Page memory 11
Is a memory for temporarily storing image data. The system bus 12 includes a data bus, an address bus, and control signal lines, and is controlled by the CPU 5. The image bus 13 is a high-speed bus dedicated to digital image data.

Next, FIG. 5 shows an example of a perspective view showing an overview of the operation unit of the digital multi-function peripheral. The touch panel 18
The touch panel 18 displays an operation menu, a message, and the like. Then, by pressing a button portion displayed on the touch panel 18, the input of the operation condition is performed. The operation keys 19 include numeric keypads, a start key, a stop key, and the like. The card 21 is an IC card or a magnetic card, and the card 21 records a user ID number. When the card 21 is inserted into the card input unit 20, the card input unit 20 reads the ID number recorded on the card 21. In addition, the touch panel 18 and the operation keys 19 are included in the information editing device 3. The card input unit 20 and the card 21 correspond to the identification information input device 2 and the identification information holding device 1, respectively.

Next, an operation example of the digital multi-function peripheral having the system configuration shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. When the user inserts the card 21 into the card input unit 20,
An initial screen as shown in FIG. 6 is displayed on the touch panel 18 in FIG. FIG. 6 shows an example of an initial screen of the digital multi-function peripheral displayed on the touch panel 18 of FIG. When the user presses any of the mode selection buttons displayed on the touch panel 1, a menu screen of the selected mode is displayed on the touch panel 18. A user is displayed on the touch panel 18 [copy]
If you press the mode selection button, touch panel 1
In FIG. 8, a menu screen including operation conditions such as a paper size, the number of copies, and a zoom ratio as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed, and set values of operation condition data are displayed as initial values of the paper size, the number of copies, the zoom ratio, and the like. Is done. In addition to the menu screen shown in FIG. 7, there are a plurality of menu screens in the copy mode, such as a menu screen including operation conditions such as copy density, contrast, electronic sorter on / off, and auto trimming on / off. The operation conditions of the menu screen displayed on the touch panel 18 are retrieved from the operation condition storage device 4 based on the ID number recorded on the card 21 and displayed. By pressing the “previous page” or “next page” button on the menu screen, the menu screen of the copy mode can be switched. And the user uses this menu screen,
The user can set conditions for copy operations of the digital multi-function peripheral. For example, in order to change the number of copies to three, it is possible to press the [number of copies] button on the menu screen and then press the [3] numeric keypad of the operation key 19, or the like. When the setting of the copy operation conditions is completed and the start button of the operation key 19 in FIG. 5 is pressed,
The digital multifunction peripheral starts a copy operation.

Next, the operation of the digital multi-function peripheral having the configuration shown in FIG. 1 will be described by taking a copy operation as an example.
When the identification information holding device 1 is inserted into the identification information input device 2, the identification information input device 2 detects that the identification information holding device 1 has been inserted by detecting means such as an optical system, and the identification information holding device 1 The recorded ID number of the user is read and output to the CPU 5. The CPU 5 retrieves the operation condition data stored in the operation condition storage device 4 based on the ID number, and temporarily stores the operation condition data. Then, the CPU 5 creates component display data for forming a menu screen from the operation condition data, and outputs the component display data to the information editing device 3. The information editing device 3 displays a menu screen on a display unit such as a liquid crystal panel based on the component display data. When the user changes the value of the number of copies displayed on the menu screen, the user presses a corresponding button on the displayed menu screen. The information editing device 3 outputs to the CPU 5 the part number of the button corresponding to the pressed portion. The CPU 5 specifies the operation condition from the part number and updates the content of the operation condition data temporarily stored. For example, if you want to change the number of copies from 5 to 3,
After pressing the [number of copies] button on the menu screen, the ten key [3] of the operation key 19 is pressed. The information editing device 3 outputs the part number of the button to the CPU 5, and the CPU 5 specifies the operation condition from the part number and updates the temporarily stored contents of the operation condition data from five copies to three copies. When the user finishes setting the copy operation conditions and presses the start button, the part number of the start button is input to the CPU 5, and the digital multifunction peripheral starts the copy operation.

When the digital multifunction peripheral starts a copying operation, the CPU 5 sends a document reading command to the scanner interface 7. Upon receiving the document reading command, the scanner interface 7 sends a scan start command to the scanner 70. Scanner 70
Starts a reading operation of a document in response to a scan start command, performs preprocessing such as shading correction and gamma correction, and creates digital image data. The digital image data is transferred to the page memory 11 via the image bus 13 and stored in the page memory 11. The digital image data stored in the page memory 11 is transferred to the image processing module 10, and the image processing module 10 reduces or enlarges the digital image data based on the operation condition data temporarily stored in the CPU 5. And so on. The processed digital image data is transferred to the printer interface 8. The printer interface 8 converts the digital image data into video data and, together with a timing control signal, the printer 8.
Send to 0. The printer 80 prints the transmitted document image on paper. This series of processing sequence is repeatedly performed until the number of copies set in the operation condition is reached.

If the copy operation is completed and rewriting of the operation condition data is specified in the operation condition data, C
The operation condition data temporarily stored in the PU 5 is newly recorded in the operation condition storage device 4, and the operation condition data of the user is updated. If rewriting is not specified, the operation condition data corresponding to the user ID number is set to a default value which is a default value unique to the digital multifunction peripheral, and is recorded in the operation condition storage device 4. The designation of the operation condition rewriting can be set in the management mode of the digital multifunction peripheral.

As described above, the user can identify the user by using I
The identification information holding device 1 having the D number is connected to the identification information input device 2
Can be set to the contents of the user's own operation condition data recorded in the operation condition storage device 4 in advance. The complexity of setting conditions can be eliminated.

<< Embodiment 2 >> This embodiment relates to another digital multi-function peripheral of the present invention whose system configuration is shown in FIG. This embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that a similar effect is obtained. First, the system configuration of the digital multifunction peripheral shown in FIG. 2 will be described. However, in the system configuration of FIG. 2, the identification information holding device 1 and the identification information input device 2 in the system configuration of FIG. 1 are an operation condition holding device 14 and an operation condition input / output device 15, respectively. The operation condition storage device 4 in the system configuration of FIG. 1 is excluded from the components. The operation condition holding device 14 is configured by a magnetic card, an IC card, or the like,
Operation condition data is recorded in the operation condition holding device 14. The operation condition data includes, as shown in FIG. 9, various operation conditions such as an ID number and the number of copies of the user, a zoom ratio, a copy density, a contrast, and the like, and data on rewriting designation of the operation conditions. Note that, other than the magnetic card and the IC card, a portable information terminal or the like having a digital multifunction peripheral and communication means such as infrared rays may be used as the operation condition holding device 14. The operation condition input / output device 15 includes detection means such as an optical system for detecting that the operation condition holding device 14 has been inserted, reads operation condition data recorded in the operation condition holding device 14, and sends the operation condition data to the CPU 5. Output data. The operation condition input / output device 15 can also write operation condition data into the operation condition holding device 14. C
The PU 5 controls a processing unit connected to the system bus 12 and inputs and outputs data between the operation condition input / output device 15 and the information editing device 3. Since the description of FIG. 1 in the first embodiment can be applied to the other components, the description is omitted here.

Next, the operation of the digital multi-function peripheral having the configuration shown in FIG. 2 will be described by taking a copy operation as an example.
When the operation condition holding device 14 is inserted into the operation condition input / output device 15, the operation condition input / output device 15 detects that the operation condition holding device 14 has been inserted by detecting means such as an optical system, and outputs the operation condition holding device. The operation condition data recorded in 14 is read and output to the CPU 5. The CPU 5 temporarily stores the operation condition data. Then, the CPU 5 creates component display data for forming an initial menu screen from the operation condition data, and uses the component display data
Output to The information editing device 3 displays an operation menu screen on a display unit such as a liquid crystal panel based on the component display data.
When the user changes the value of the number of copies displayed on the menu screen, the user presses a corresponding button on the displayed menu screen. The information editing device 3 outputs to the CPU 5 the part number of the button corresponding to the pressed portion. CP
U5 specifies the operation condition from the part number, and updates the contents of the temporarily stored operation condition data. For example, to change the number of copies from five to three, the user presses the [copy] button on the menu screen and then presses the [3] numeric keypad of the operation key 19. The information editing device 3 outputs the part number of the button to the CPU 5, and the CPU 5 specifies the operation condition from the part number and updates the temporarily stored contents of the operation condition data from five copies to three copies. When the user finishes setting the copy operation conditions and presses the start button, the CPU
5, the part number of the start button is input, and the digital multi-function peripheral starts the copy operation.

When the digital multifunction peripheral starts a copying operation, the CPU 5 sends a document reading command to the scanner interface 7. Upon receiving the document reading command, the scanner interface 7 sends a scan start command to the scanner 70. Scanner 70
Starts a reading operation of a document in response to a scan start command, performs preprocessing such as shading correction and gamma correction, and creates digital image data. The digital image data is transferred to the page memory 11 via the image bus 13 and stored in the page memory 11. The digital image data stored in the page memory 11 is transferred to the image processing module 10, and the image processing module 10 reduces or enlarges the digital image data based on the operation condition data temporarily stored in the CPU 5. Is performed. The processed digital image data is transferred to the printer interface 8. The printer interface 8 converts the digital image data into video data and sends it to the printer 80 together with a timing control signal. The printer 80 prints the transmitted document image on paper. This sequence is repeated until the number of copies set under the operating conditions is reached.

When the copy operation is completed, the CPU 5 outputs the temporarily stored operation condition data to the operation condition input / output device 15 if the operation condition data specifies rewriting of the operation condition data. The operation condition input / output device 15 newly writes operation condition data in the operation condition holding device 14 and updates the user operation condition data. If rewriting is not specified, the operation condition data is set to the default value of the digital multifunction peripheral and is recorded in the operation condition holding device 14. The designation of the operation condition rewriting can be set in the management mode of the digital multifunction peripheral.

As described above, the user inserts the operation condition holding device 14 in which the operation conditions of the user are recorded into the operation condition input / output device 15 so that the operation conditions displayed on the menu screen of the digital multi-function peripheral can be controlled in advance. Condition holding device 1
4, the content of the operation condition data of the user himself / herself can be used, and the complexity of setting the operation condition can be eliminated.

<< Embodiment 3 >> This embodiment relates to another digital multi-function peripheral of the present invention whose system configuration is shown in FIG. The present embodiment seeks to obtain an effect (easy access to personal information and protection of personal information) different from those of the first or second embodiment. First, the system configuration of the digital multifunction peripheral shown in FIG. 3 will be described. However, in the system configuration of FIG. 3, the operation condition storage device 4 in the system configuration of FIG. 1 is excluded from the components. The image information storage device 6 is configured by a storage device such as an HDD, and the image information storage device 6 stores the image information and the search information in the ID of the owner.
Stored in pairs with numbers. Here, the image information is compressed digital image data for printing,
The search information is reduced image data for search. Note that a file name or the like may be used as search information instead of reduced image data. Since the description of FIG. 1 in the first embodiment can be applied to the other components, the description is omitted here.

Next, the operation of registering image information in the digital multi-function peripheral having the configuration shown in FIG. 3 will be described. When the identification information holding device 1 is inserted into the identification information input device 2, the identification information input device 2 detects that the identification information holding device 1 has been inserted by detecting means such as an optical system. Then, the identification information input device 2 reads out the user ID number recorded in the identification information holding device 1 and outputs it to the CPU 5. The CPU 5 temporarily stores this ID number. Then, the information editing device 3 displays an initial screen as shown in FIG. 6 on the display unit. Then, when the user presses the [File] button on the initial screen and instructs to register image information, the digital multifunction peripheral starts the image information registration operation.

When the digital MFP starts the image information registration operation, the CPU 5 sends a document reading command to the scanner interface 7. When the scanner interface 7 receives the document reading command,
A scan start command is sent to the scanner 70. The scanner 70 starts a reading operation of a document in response to a scan start command, performs preprocessing such as shading correction and gamma correction, and creates digital image data. The digital image data is transferred to the page memory 11 via the image bus 13 and stored in the page memory 11. The digital image data stored in the page memory 11 is
The data is transferred to the image processing module 10. The image processing module 10 performs a compression process on the digital image data to reduce the volume of the digital image data and a reduction process to create a search image to be displayed on the display unit of the information editing device 3. The compressed digital image data and the reduced image data created by performing the reduction processing on the digital image data are sent to the image information storage device 6 and are associated with the ID numbers temporarily stored in the CPU 5 so as to be associated with the image information storage device. 6 is stored. Note that, instead of the reduced image data, alphanumeric key buttons may be displayed on the display unit of the information editing device 3, and a file name input using the displayed key buttons may be used.

Next, the operation of outputting image information in the digital multifunction peripheral will be described. When the identification information holding device 1 is inserted into the identification information input device 2, the identification information input device 2
Detects that the identification information holding device 1 has been inserted by a detecting means such as an optical system, reads the ID number recorded in the identification information holding device 1, and outputs the ID number to the CPU 5. CPU
5 temporarily stores this ID number. The information editing device 3 displays an initial screen as shown in FIG. 6 on the display unit. Then, when the [Print] button on the initial screen is pressed by the user to instruct output of image information, the digital multifunction peripheral starts an operation of outputting image information.

When the digital multi-function peripheral starts the output operation of the image information, the CPU 5 extracts the image information and the search information having the same ID number as the temporarily stored ID number from the image information storage device 6 and obtains the search information. The reduced image data is output to the information editing device 3. Then, the information editing device 3 displays a reduced image as shown in FIG. 8 on the display unit based on the reduced image data. The user selects the corresponding reduced image with the selection button of FIG. 8 and presses the determination button to determine the image information. Note that a file name may be used instead of the reduced image. When the reduced image is selected in this way, the compressed digital image data that is the image information corresponding to the selected reduced image is sent to the image processing module 10. To restore the compressed digital image data, the image processing module 10
Performs a decompression process on the transmitted data and sends it to the page memory 11. The data sent to the page memory 11 is sent to the printer interface 8, which converts the data into video data and sends it to the printer 80 together with a timing control signal. The printer 80 prints the transmitted registration image on paper.

As described above, the user can use the identification information holding device 1
Is inserted into the identification information input device 2, only the image information and search information corresponding to the user's ID number are extracted from the image information storage device 6, and the information editing device 3 displays the extracted search information. Then, the user selects image information based on the search information. Therefore, it is possible to easily access the user's own image information stored in the image information storage device 6. At the same time, in order to access each user's image information, the user's ID
Since a number is required, the security of image information is also increased.

<< Embodiment 4 >> This embodiment relates to another digital multi-function peripheral of the present invention whose system configuration is shown in FIG. The present embodiment is different from the third embodiment in that a similar effect is obtained. First, the system configuration of the digital multifunction peripheral shown in FIG. 2 will be described. However, in the system configuration of FIG. 4, the identification information holding device 1 and the identification information input device 2 in the system configuration of FIG.
It has become. The image management information holding device 16 is configured by a magnetic card, an IC card, or the like, and the image management information holding device 16 stores image management information. The image management information includes an image number for identifying the image information and reduced image data for image search. Further, a file name or the like may be used instead of reduced image data as information for image search. Note that, other than the magnetic card and the IC card, a portable information terminal or the like having the digital multifunction peripheral and communication means such as infrared rays may be used as the image management information holding device 16. The image management information input / output device 17 includes a detection unit such as an optical system for detecting that the image management information holding device 16 has been inserted, reads out the image management information recorded in the image management information holding device 16, Output. The image management information input / output device 17 can also write image management information in the image management information holding device 16. The CPU 5 controls a processing unit connected to the system bus 12 and inputs and outputs data between the image management information input / output device 17 and the information editing device 3. The image information storage device 6 is configured by a storage device such as an HDD, and stores therein a pair of compressed digital image data as image information and an image number for identifying the image information. Since the description of FIG. 1 in the first embodiment can be applied to other components,
Here, the description is omitted.

Next, the operation of registering image information in the digital multi-function peripheral having the configuration shown in FIG. 4 will be described. When the image management information holding device 16 is inserted into the image management information input / output device 17, the image management information input / output device 17 detects that the image management information holding device 16 has been inserted by detecting means such as an optical system. The image management information stored in the image management information holding device 16 is read and output to the CPU 5. The CPU 5 temporarily stores the image management information.
The information editing device 3 displays an initial screen as shown in FIG. 6 on the display unit. Then, [File] on the initial screen by the user
Is pressed and the registration of the image information is instructed, the digital multifunction peripheral starts the operation of registering the image information.

When the digital MFP starts the image information registration operation, the CPU 5 sends a document reading command to the scanner interface 7. Upon receiving the document reading command, the scanner interface 7 sends a scan start command to the scanner 70. The scanner 70 starts a reading operation of a document in response to a scan start command, performs preprocessing such as shading correction and gamma correction, and creates digital image data. The digital image data is transferred to the page memory 11 via the image bus 13, and the digital image data is stored in the page memory 11. The digital image data stored in the page memory 11 is sent to the image processing module 10. The image processing module 10 performs a compression process on the digital image data to reduce the volume of the digital image data and a reduction process to create a search image to be displayed on the display unit of the information editing device 3. The compressed digital image data is sent to the image information storage device 6 and stored together with the newly assigned image number. The reduced image data created by performing the reduction process on the digital image data is sent to the CPU 5 together with the image number.
5 is added to the image management information temporarily stored in the storage unit 5. It should be noted that instead of the reduced image data, an alphanumeric key button may be displayed on the display unit of the information editing device 3, and a file name input using the displayed key button may be used.
The image management information to which the image number and the reduced image data are added is sent to the image management information input / output device 17. The image management information input / output device 17 writes the image management information into the image management information holding device 16 and
Is updated.

Next, the operation of outputting image information in the digital multifunction peripheral will be described. Image management information holding device 1
6 is inserted into the image management information input / output device 17, the image management information input / output device 17 detects that the image management information holding device 16 has been inserted by detecting means such as an optical system, and outputs the image management information holding device 16. 16 is read out and output to the CPU 5. The CPU 5 temporarily stores the image management information. The information editing device 3 displays an initial screen as shown in FIG. 6 on the display unit. Then, when the [Print] button on the initial screen is pressed by the user to instruct output of image information, the digital multifunction peripheral starts an operation of outputting image information.

When the digital multifunction peripheral starts outputting image information, the CPU 5 outputs reduced image data for search to the information editing device 3 from the image management information. Then, the information editing device 3 displays a reduced image as shown in FIG. 8 on the display unit based on the reduced image data. The user selects the corresponding reduced image with the selection button of FIG. 8 and presses the determination button to determine the image information. Note that a file name may be used instead of the reduced image. When the reduced image is selected in this manner, compressed digital image data, which is image information, is taken out from the image information storage device 6 based on the image number recorded together with the selected reduced image, and the image processing module 10 Transfer to
In order to restore the compressed digital image data, the image processing module 10 performs a decompression process on the transmitted data and sends the data to the page memory 11. The data sent to the page memory 11 is sent to the printer interface 8, which converts the data into video data and sends it to the printer 80 together with a timing control signal. The printer 80 prints the transmitted registration image on paper.

As described above, the user inserts the image management information holding device 16 into the image management information input / output device 17, whereby the information editing device 3 displays a reduced image for search.
Then, the user selects image information based on the search information. Therefore, it is possible to easily access the user's own image information stored in the image information storage device 6. At the same time, in order to access the image information of each user, the image number recorded in the image management information holding device 16 is required, so that the security of the image information is enhanced.

[0038]

As described above, according to the present invention, in a shared digital multifunction peripheral, the complexity of setting the operation environment for individual users is eliminated, and access to personal information is facilitated.
In addition, personal information can be protected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a digital MFP according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a digital multifunction peripheral according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of a digital multifunction peripheral according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of a digital multifunction peripheral according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a digital multifunction peripheral operation unit according to the first to fourth embodiments.

FIG. 6 is an initial screen of a digital multifunction peripheral operation panel according to the first to fourth embodiments.

FIG. 7 shows a copy mode screen of the digital multifunction peripheral operation panel in the first or second embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an image selection menu screen of the digital multifunction peripheral operation panel in the third or fourth embodiment.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of operation condition data in the first or second embodiment.

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 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 identification information holding device 2 identification information input device 3 information editing device 4 operation condition storage device 5 CPU 6 image information storage device 7 scanner interface 8 printer interface 9 fax interface 10 image processing module 11 page memory 12 system bus 13 image bus 14 operation Condition holding device 15 Operation condition input / output device 16 Image management information input / output device 17 Image management information input / output device 18 Touch panel 19 Operation key 20 Card input unit 21 Card 22 Operation condition data 70 Scanner 80 Printer 90 PSTN

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. An identification information holding means for holding identification information for identifying a user; an identification information input means for inputting the identification information obtained from the identification information holding means; A digital multifunction peripheral comprising: an operation condition storage unit that stores the operation condition corresponding to the operation condition information; and an information editing unit that displays the operation condition based on the operation condition information selected from the operation condition storage unit based on the identification information. 2. Operation condition holding means for holding a set of operation condition information, operation condition input / output for inputting operation condition information obtained from said operation condition holding means and outputting operation condition information to said operation condition holding means. A digital multifunction peripheral comprising: means; and information editing means for displaying operation conditions based on the operation condition information. 3. Identification information holding means for holding identification information about a user, identification information input means for inputting the identification information obtained from the identification information holding means, image information and search information for searching the image information. A digital multi-function peripheral comprising: image information storage means for storing the image information in association with the image information; and information editing means for displaying the search information in order to select the image information stored in the image information storage means. 4. An image management information holding unit for holding image management information having image identification information for identifying image information and search information for searching for image information, wherein the image management information obtained from the image management information holding unit is provided. Image management information input / output means for inputting image management information and outputting image management information to the image management information holding means; image information storage means for storing image information in pairs with the image identification information; and image information storage An information editing means for displaying search information of the image management information in order to select image information stored in the means. 5. The method according to claim 5, wherein the identification information holding means is a magnetic card,
2. A card such as an IC card.
A digital multifunction peripheral according to claim 3. 6. The operation condition holding means, comprising: a magnetic card;
3. A card such as an IC card.
2. The digital multifunction peripheral according to 1. 7. The digital multi-function peripheral according to claim 4, wherein said image management information holding means is a card such as a magnetic card and an IC card.