Patent ID: 8214547

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: an operating unit; a plurality of control units configured to control the operating unit to execute a first function on image data, each of the control units including a processing unit; a first acquiring unit configured to acquire user-command information indicating a current user; and a memory unit, wherein: the plurality of control units execute the first function in one of a plurality of modes of different performance levels; the memory unit is configured to store plural sets of user information and the plurality of modes in correspondence with each other so as to specify correspondence between a plurality of users and the plurality of modes; the control units execute the first function in one of the plurality of modes corresponding to one of the plurality of users having a predetermined relationship with the current user; the plurality of modes include at least a first mode of a higher performance level and a second mode of a lower performance level; the first acquiring unit is configured to acquire another user information for a next user before at least one of the control units determines one of the plurality of modes in which the first function is executed; the at least one of the control units determines whether the first mode corresponds to the next user based on the correspondence stored in the memory unit; and the at least one of the control units determines the first mode as the one of the plurality of modes in which the first function is executed regardless of the correspondence stored in the memory unit if the at least one of the control units has determined that the first mode corresponds to the next user.