Patent ID: 6859794

Claim:
An image processing system, comprising an electronic apparatus and an image processing apparatus, for forming an image based on print information transferred from said electronic apparatus to said image processing apparatus, said electronic apparatus comprising: information addition means for adding a user identifier to the print information; and transfer means for transferring the print information having the user identifier added thereto to said image processing apparatus, said image processing apparatus comprising: voice-feature specification means for specifying a voice feature based on the user identifier added to the print information by referring to a table for storing the voice feature in correspondence with the user identifier; voice-feature extraction means for extracting a voice feature from a voice input from the user; user-authentication means for authenticating the user by comparing the voice feature specified by said voice-feature specification means with the voice feature extracted by said voice-feature extraction means; and print-information output means for starting output of the print information if the user is authenticated by said user-authentication means.