Patent ID: 8810662

Claim:
An image processing system comprising a portable terminal, one or more image processing apparatuses executing one or more kinds of processes, and an information processing apparatus, said portable terminal including a shooting unit, an obtaining unit for obtaining positional information and orientation information of said portable terminal, a display unit, and a first transmission unit for transmitting positional information and orientation information at a time of shooting by said shooting unit to said information processing apparatus, said information processing apparatus including a storage unit for storing, for each of one or more image processing apparatuses, positional information and functional information for specifying a process to be executed by the image processing apparatus, a search unit for searching for a specific image processing apparatus which is an image processing apparatus included in a shot image by said shooting unit of said portable terminal, from one or more image processing apparatuses stored in said storage unit, based on said positional information and orientation information at a time of shooting that is received from said portable terminal, and a second transmission unit for transmitting said functional information of said specific image processing apparatus to said portable terminal, said portable terminal further including a display control unit for allowing said display unit to display said shot image at a time of shooting by said shooting unit and a menu image including an operation unit for designating a process specified by said functional information, each said image processing apparatus including a generation unit for generating information specifying a process executable at a present time in reflection to a status of said image processing apparatus, and a third transmission unit for transmitting said information generated by said generation unit to said information processing apparatus, said information processing apparatus including an update unit for updating a stored content in said storage unit such that said functional information is associated only with said executable process received from said image processing apparatus.