Patent ID: 6819441
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image control system realized by connecting, through a network, a plurality of digital integrated apparatuss provided with an image input means for generating image data by digitizing an original image, a server device provided with a storing means for storing said image data and a publicizing means for publicizing said image data, and a perusal means provided with a perusing means for perusing the information publicized by said publicizing means to one another,comprising, on said digital integrated apparatus side; an address storing means for storing a network address corresponding to said server device, an attribute information generating means for generating attribute information of said image data, which contains a user ID unique to each user and an access right information to the image data to be stored in the server device, and a transfer means for transferring, when a start button is pressed, said image data based on the network address stored in said address storing means, along with said attribute information including said access right information for specifying whether users other than a user who prepared the image data to be transferred are granted permission to access the image data, in order to register said image data with said access right information into the server device; and comprising, on said server device: an image control means for registering said image data in said storing means and taking out image data from the storing means based on a request from said publicizing means, and said publicizing means for publicizing a list corresponding to the respective image data, and transmitting, to said perusal means, the image data corresponding to one specified from among the list perused by said perusal means.