Patent ID: 8368936

Claim:
A conference system including an electronic board and an image processing apparatus, said electronic board comprising: a reading portion to read characters or graphics drawn on a board surface of said electronic board; a first transmitting portion to transmit image data obtained by reading said board surface to said image processing apparatus; a start operation accepting portion to accept a start operation instructing start of a conference; a second transmitting portion to transmit a start instruction to said image processing apparatus in response to the event that said start operation is accepted; a user identification information acquiring portion to acquire user identification information; and a third transmitting portion to transmit said acquired user identification information to said image processing apparatus, said image processing apparatus comprising: a conference identification information generating portion to generate conference identification information in response to reception of said start instruction from said electronic board; a first associating portion to associate said generated conference identification information with device identification information for identifying said electronic board that transmitted said start instruction; a second associating portion, when image data is received from said electronic board, to associate the received image data with said conference identification information that has been lastly associated with the device identification information for identifying said electronic board that transmitted the image data; a third associating portion, when user identification information is received from said electronic board, to associate said received user identification information with said conference identification information that has been lastly associated with the device identification information for identifying said electronic board that transmitted said user identification information; an authentication portion to authenticate a user; a conference identification information extracting portion to extract conference identification information that is associated with user identification information for said authenticated user; an image data extracting portion to extract image data that is associated with said extracted conference identification information; and an image output portion to output said extracted image data.