Patent ID: 9367771
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06K,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: a reading unit configured to read a document in a case where a user instructs to copy the document, the document including, as a code image, first user information and second user information different from the first user information respectively identifying a first user and a second user having instructed to make a copy after the first user; a decoding unit configured to decode the code image in a document image of the read document to obtain the first and second user information; a selecting unit configured to select the first user information from among the first and second user information; a generating unit configured to generate a different code image not including the second user information identifying the second user having instructed to make a copy after the first user, but including the selected first user information and user information identifying the user who instructs to copy the document by encoding the first user information and the user information identifying the user who instructs to copy the document; and a printing unit configured to print the generated code image.