Patent ID: 8941873
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A processing instruction device comprising: a memory that stores one or more processing instruction data items each instructing at least one of an image forming device, an imaging device, and a data communication device to perform a processing operation, one or more processing identification data items each identifying one of the one or more processing instruction data items, and one or more processing attribute data items each indicating an attribute of a processing operation indicated by one of the one or more processing instruction data items; a display instruction data acquisition unit that acquires a display instruction data item for each of one or more processing instruction data items each instructing at least one of the image forming device, the imaging device, and the data communication device to perform a processing operation, a specifying unit that, in a case where there is a processing identification data item which is included in the display instruction data item and which is not stored in the memory, specifies a processing attribute data item among the one or more processing attribute data items stored in the memory and specifies, as an alternative processing instruction data item, a processing instruction data item corresponding to the specified processing attribute data items, a display controller that causes a display device to display an image which prompts a user to select, for a processing instruction data item identified by the processing identification data item which is included in the display instruction data item and which is not stored in the memory among the processing instruction data items identified by the processing identification data items included in the display instruction data item, an alternative processing instruction data item specified by the specifying unit instead of the processing instruction data item identified by the processing identification data item which is included in the display instruction data item and which is not stored in the memory, in accordance with the display instruction data item; an operation data acquisition unit that acquires operation data indicating an operation of a user from an operation device that receives a user operation; and a processing instruction unit that, in a case where the operation data acquisition unit acquires operation data indicating selection of one of one or more processing instruction data items from which a user is prompted to select a processing instruction data item using an image while the image is being displayed on the display device, instructs at least one of the image forming device, the imaging device, and the data communication device to perform a processing operation in accordance with the one processing instruction data item.