Patent ID: 6778288
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: G03G,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
An image capturing system shared by a plurality of users, the system comprising:an image scanning section which scans an image of a document in a plurality of scan modes; a scan job management section which sets scan jobs, which includes a process to scan an image of a document in a scan mode and a process to execute a job on the image of the document scanned in the scan mode, in association with instruction keys; and an execute section which scans, when the instruction key associated with the scan job by the scan job management section has been designated, the document in the scan mode of the scan job associated with the designated instruction key, and executes the process set by the scan job on the scanned image; a scan job management table which sets an execute right on that one of the scan jobs set by the scan job management section, the execution of which is permitted to a specified user alone; and an execute right determination section which determines whether the user has the execute right set on the scan job, when the instruction key associated with the scan job, on which the execute right is set by the scan job management table, has been designated, wherein when the execute right determination section has determined that the user has the execute right, the execute section executes the scan job on which the execute right is set.