Patent ID: 8265509
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus which is able to communicate over a network with a plurality of imaging apparatuses and a plurality of authentication information acquisition devices, which plurality of imaging apparatuses include respective display sections and execute respective jobs each including at least one of an image formation job and an image processing job, whether any of the plurality of imaging apparatuses is permitted to execute the job being determined in accordance with an authentication result based on first authentication information acquired from a user by one of the plurality of authentication information acquisition devices which one of the plurality of authentication information acquisition devices corresponds to any of the plurality of imaging apparatuses, the control apparatus comprising: a corresponding imaging apparatus information storage section which stores correspondence information between the plurality of authentication information acquisition devices and the plurality of imaging apparatuses any of which is permitted to execute the job in accordance with the authentication result based on the first authentication information that the corresponding one of the plurality of authentication information acquisition devices has acquired; authentication screen transmitting means for transmitting, to any of the plurality of imaging apparatuses over the network, data of an authentication screen which is displayed on the display section of any of the plurality of imaging apparatuses and which prompts the user to make preparations to cause a corresponding one of the plurality of authentication information acquisition, devices to acquire the first authentication information; control means for controlling any of the plurality of authentication information acquisition devices over the network, so as to cause any of the plurality of authentication information acquisition devices to acquire the first authentication information; authentication information receiving means for receiving, over the network, the first authentication information that any of the plurality of authentication information acquisition devices has acquired; and permitting means for permitting any of the plurality of imaging apparatuses to execute the job, in accordance with the authentication result based on the first authentication information that the authentication information receiving means has received˜said any of the plurality of imaging apparatuses which is permitted by the permitting means to execute the job corresponding to, in the correspondence information stored in the corresponding imaging apparatus information storage section, a one of the plurality of authentication information acquisition devices which has transmitted the first authentication information to the authentication information receiving means.