Patent ID: 8384926

Claim:
A method for displaying progress states of generating and processing scanned data when a data supplying apparatus generates the scanned data and transmits the generated data to a host computer, and the host computer receives the generated data and processes the received data, wherein the data supplying apparatus and the host computer are connected to each other, the method comprising: generating a first signal for indicating a first progress state of scanning an image, generating the scanned data, and transmitting a scanned image data to the host computer, wherein the data supplying apparatus performs the generating; displaying the first progress state on a screen of the host computer according to the generated first signal; generating a second signal for indicating a second progress state of receiving the scanned image data from the data supplying apparatus and processing the scanned image data according to a predetermined data processing method, wherein the host computer performs the generating; and displaying the second progress state on the screen of the host computer according to the generated second signal; wherein the predetermined data processing method is determined by a user's selection through a user interface provided by the host computer; wherein the first signal is generated before the second signal is generated; wherein the first progress state represents how much of the scanned image data was generated and transmitted; wherein the second progress state represents how much of the scanned image data was processed according to the predetermined data processing method; and wherein the first progress state and the progress state are displayed together on the screen of the host computer.