Patent ID: 8553258
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image communication system, comprising: an image reading device; and a communication device which is communicatably connected to the image reading device, wherein the image reading device comprises: an image reading unit configured to execute a reading operation to read an image from a document to generate image data corresponding to the read image; a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data generated by the image reading unit to the communication device; an evaluation information receiving unit configured to receive evaluation information from the communication device, wherein the evaluation information indicates that re-reading of the image corresponding to the image data transmitted to the communication device is necessary and includes an additional image corresponding to the image data; and a display unit configured to display the evaluation information received by the evaluation information receiving unit, wherein the communication device comprises: an image data receiving unit configured to receive the image data from the image reading device communicatably connected to the communication device; an image data display unit configured to display the image corresponding to the image data received by the image data receiving unit; an additional image input unit configured to input the additional image corresponding to the image data; a command reception unit configured to receive an execution command for executing re-reading of the image corresponding to the image data displayed by the image data display unit; an evaluation information generation unit configured such that, in response to receipt of the execution command by the command reception unit, the evaluation information generation unit generates the evaluation information which indicates that re-reading of the image corresponding to the image data indicated by the execution command is necessary and includes the additional image, corresponding to the image data, inputted by the additional image input unit of the communication device; and an information transmission unit configured to transmit the evaluation information generated by the evaluation information generation unit, including the additional image inputted by the additional image input unit, to the image reading device.