Patent ID: 9030689
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a readout unit that reads out an image; a grant unit that grants a right to receive image information provided to a communication destination through a wireless communication using a second communication unit, in response to a request from the communication destination, the image information representing the image read out by the readout unit; and a providing unit that provides the image information by transmitting the image information to the communication destination through the wireless communication, when the communication destination exercises the right granted by the grant unit in a state where a wireless communication connection to the communication destination is established, wherein the grant unit grants the right by transmitting the right to the communication destination through the wireless communication when the wireless communication connection to the communication destination is established, and grants the right by transmitting the right to the communication destination using a first communication unit different from the second communication unit used in the wireless communication when the wireless communication connection to the communication destination is not established, wherein the second communication unit is a communication unit that performs the wireless communication by ad hoc mode.