Patent ID: 8842314

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a wireless communicator that is capable of communicating with a user's portable terminal, wirelessly; a register that registers one or more than one process conditions under which data processing is performed; an identification information generator that generates identification information for at least one of the registered process conditions and also links the identification information to the at least one of the registered process conditions, before establishment of a connection with the user's portable terminal; a display that displays on itself, the generated identification information in a style that allows users to understand its linkage to the at least one of the registered process conditions; a connection controller that establishes a connection with the portable terminal, if identification information entered by the user via the portable terminal received therefrom is equivalent to the displayed generated identification information; and a data processor that performs data processing on the data to be processed, which is received from the portable terminal having been connected, or which is obtained according to storage information received from the portable terminal, under the at least one of the registered process conditions that is linked to the displayed identification information used for establishment of the connection.