Patent ID: 8120804
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing system, comprising: an image managing device; an image processing device which is connected to said image managing device via a network, wherein said image managing device comprises: a function-information storing unit configured to store function information associating a user with information for specifying a function that the user has an authority to utilize through said image processing device; a function-information acquisition unit configured to receive user identification information transmitted from said image processing device, and configured to acquire a function information correspondence with a user specified by the received user identification information, from said function-information storing unit; and a menu transmission unit configured to prepare a menu screen of a function that the user has the authority to utilize, based on the function information acquired through said function-information acquisition unit, and configured to transmit the menu screen to said image processing device, and said image processing device comprises: a transmission unit configured to accept input of user identification information by a user, and configured to transmit the input user identification information to said image managing device; a display unit configured to receive the menu screen from said menu transmission unit, and configured to display the received menu screen; a selection unit configured to select an function from said menu screen in response to manipulation of the user; an execution unit configured to execute a process of realizing the function selected by said selection unit; a history storing unit configured to store manipulation history information including identification information on a service that a user has utilized, in association with identification information of the user; and a function limitation unit configured to control said menu transmission unit not to prepare a menu for selecting a predetermined service when the user utilizes the predetermined service more than or equal to a predetermined number of times, to thereby limit usage of the predetermined service by the user.