US 11,943,411 B2
Storage method, storage system, reading device, and image processing apparatus
Kazuhisa Kubota, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/873,723.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-128473 (JP), filed on Aug. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0043984 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/64 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/10 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/10 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1203 (2013.01); G06F 3/126 (2013.01); G06F 3/1284 (2013.01); H04N 1/0009 (2013.01); H04N 1/00127 (2013.01); H04N 1/32432 (2013.01); H04N 1/00148 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A storage method comprising:
determining whether instructions, for adding index information different from information that is based on a document to scan data generated by scanning the document with a reading device, are inputted;
accepting, after the instructions are determined to be inputted, a selection of the index information for adding to the scan data;
determining whether the selected index information is related to management information managed by the reading device;
accepting, after the selected index information is determined to be related to the management information, a selection input of first information, which is related to the management information, as the index information for adding to the scan data;
generating the scan data by scanning of the document with the reading device; and
assigning, as the index information, the first information accepted by the selection input to the generated scan data and storing the generated scan data with the index information in a storage device,
wherein the first information includes any one account of at least a personal name, a phone number, an e-mail address, a fax number, a home or place of work address, a name of a place of work, a post, a (Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and a (Social Networking Service (SNS).