Patent ID: 8368740

Claim:
A meeting system including a data processing apparatus and a display device configured to display an image based on data obtained from said data processing apparatus, said data processing apparatus comprising: a data obtaining portion, executed by a processor, configured to obtain image data corresponding to user identification information for identifying a user, the image data being read from or stored in a document; a participant information obtaining portion, executed by a processor, configured to obtain said user identification information in accordance with one or more meeting participants entering or leaving a meeting room as participant information indicating said meeting participants; an access permission determination portion, executed by a processor, configured to determine whether or not a user identified by said participant information can access said obtained image data, based on said user identification information corresponding to said image data and said participant information obtained from said participant information obtaining portion; an output permission determination portion, executed by a processor, configured to determine that said obtained image data can be outputted, if all of said meeting participants can access said obtained image data, as a result of determination by said access permission determination portion, and to determine that said obtained image data cannot be outputted, if any one of said meeting participants cannot access said obtained image data; an output portion, executed by a processor, configured to output said image data to said display device on condition that it is determined by said output permission determination portion that said image data can be outputted, and to prohibit outputting said image data to said display device when it is determined by said output permission determination portion that said image data cannot be outputted; and a permission portion, executed by a processor, configured to accept an instruction for permission of display from one of said meeting participants, if it is prohibited by said output portion to output said image data to said display device, and to allow said output portion to output said image data to said display device based on said user identification information corresponding to said image data and based on said participant information obtained from said participant information obtaining portion when said one of said meeting participants providing said instruction for permission is a user who can access said obtained image data.