Patent ID: 8976390
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store at least one setting value for an operation mode of the image processing apparatus; a log-in processing unit configured to enable a first type of user or a second type of user to log in to the image processing apparatus; a setting unit configured to set the operation mode based on the setting value stored in said storage unit, in response to the user's login to the image processing apparatus; a first determination unit configured to determine whether or not the setting value is changed by the user; a second determination unit configured to determine whether or not the user is the first type of user or the second type of user; and a control unit configured to replace, in a case where said first determination unit determines that the setting value is changed by the user and said second determination unit determines that the user is the first type of user, the changed setting value with a setting value which had been stored in said storage unit before the user's login, in response to the user's log out from the image processing apparatus, wherein said control unit is configured to maintain the changed setting value in a case where said first determination unit determines that the setting value is changed by the user and said second determination unit determines that the user is the second type of user.