Patent ID: 8508780
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A scanner, comprising: a storage device; an image processing unit for receiving scan data obtained from a reading unit; a transmission destination registering unit registering information related to one or more shared folders on a network; a designating unit designating a saving destination for saving said scan data among said one or more shared folders registered by the transmission destination registering unit; a state detecting unit detecting, before transmission of the scan data through the network, whether an external apparatus having the shared folder designated as said saving destination is in a state in which communication is possible or in a state in which communication is impossible; a passing unit automatically passing, before transmission of the scan data through the network, said scan data from the image processing unit to the storage device without intervening processing when communication with said external apparatus is impossible, and passing said scan data to said external apparatus without storing said scan data in the storage device, when communication with said external apparatus is possible; and a transmitting unit transmitting through the network said scan data when it is detected by said state detecting unit that said external apparatus having the shared folder is in a state in which communication is possible, and said transmitting unit transmitting through the network said scan data stored in said storage device when said external apparatus having the shared folder which was in a state in which communication was impossible, is detected by said state detecting unit as being in a state in which communication is possible.