Patent ID: 8146152

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising at least a processor and memory, said processor and memory cooperating to function as: an authentication unit adapted to execute user authentication; and an execution unit adapted to execute processing on image data with a plurality of processes as a sequential processing flow while cooperating a plurality of different functions with one another; an obtaining unit adapted to obtain setting data personalized for a user authenticated by said authentication unit; and a first registration unit adapted to register the plurality of processes as a sequential processing flow, wherein said execution unit is adapted to execute the processing flow with a part of the processing flow replaced by processing personalized for the user set in the setting data, upon executing the processing flow registered in said first registration unit; and a same-processing determination unit adapted to determine whether or not processing same as the processing personalized for the user is set in a processing flow selected from the processing flows registered in said first registration unit, wherein when said same-processing determination unit determines that the processing same as the processing personalized for the user is set in the processing flow selected from the processing flows registered in said first registration unit, said execution unit is adapted to execute the processing flow with the part of the processing flow replaced by the processing same as the processing personalized for the user, and when said same-processing determination unit determines that the processing same as the processing personalized for the user is not set in the processing flow selected from the processing flows registered in said first registration unit, said execution unit is adapted to execute the processing flow with the processing personalized for the user added to the processing flow.