Patent ID: 9473649
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image reading apparatus for optically reading an image, comprising: an operation unit configured to cause a user to perform an operation; a storage unit configured to store a condition, to execute reading of the image, which is set in accordance with the operation on said operation unit; a notification unit configured to notify an information processing apparatus, which is a transfer destination of image data obtained by performing the reading, of an event of image reading in accordance with an instruction of the image reading on said operation unit; a reception unit configured to receive a command from an external apparatus; a determining unit configured to determine whether the command received by said reception unit is an instruction responding to the event notification by said notification unit from the information processing apparatus; and a control unit configured to control, in a case where said determining unit determines that the command is the instruction from the information processing apparatus, to start the image reading based on the condition stored in said storage unit in advance before the instruction from the information processing apparatus, regardless of a reading condition set in the command.