Patent ID: 7933036
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: F25B,F25D,H04L

Abstract:
1. An electric appliance setting system, comprising: an image processing apparatus with an image scanning system which scans an image formed on an original document and an image printing system which prints an image; at least one electric appliance, which is communicably connected with the image processing apparatus through a network, wherein the image processing apparatus is provided with: a setting sheet print controlling system, which controls the image printing system to form an image of a setting sheet, in which a desired setting of the at least one electric appliance is written, based on setting sheet data transmitted from the at least one electric appliance to the image processing apparatus; and a setting data transmission system, which transmits setting data including one of image data scanned from the setting sheet in which the desired setting is written and data indicating the desired setting to the at least one electric appliance, wherein the at least one electric appliance is provided with: a setting sheet data transmission system which transmits the setting sheet data to the image processing apparatus; and a setting modifying system which modifies a setting of the electric appliance to the desired setting written in the setting sheet when the setting data is transmitted from the image processing apparatus, wherein the image processing apparatus is provided with a setting sheet data requesting system, which requests the at least one electric appliance to transmit the setting sheet data, and wherein the setting sheet data transmission system of the at least one electric appliance transmits the setting sheet data to the image processing apparatus in response to the request from the image processing apparatus, wherein the at least one electric appliance is provided with a presence notifying system which notifies of presence of the at least one electric appliance in the network to the image processing apparatus, and wherein the setting sheet data requesting system of the image processing apparatus requests the at least one electric appliance that has notified of the presence to transmit the setting sheet data in response to the notification of the presence, wherein the image processing apparatus is provided with: an electric appliance data storing system, in which electric appliance data indicating the presence of the at least one electric appliance in the network is stored; and an additional electric appliance judging system, which determines the at least one electric device that has notified of its presence to the image processing apparatus is a newly added electric appliance which is newly connected to the network when the image processing apparatus being notified of the presence of the at least one electric appliance finds no electric appliance data corresponding to the at least one electric appliance that has notified of its presence in the electric appliance data storing system, and wherein the setting sheet data requesting system of the image processing apparatus requests the newly added electric appliance to transmit the setting sheet data when the at least one electric appliance is determined to be the newly added electric appliance by the additional electric appliance judging system.