US 12,294,680 B2
Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and non-transitory recording medium
Akira Yokoyama, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Akira Yokoyama, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Mar. 12, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/602,279.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-044574 (JP), filed on Mar. 20, 2023; and application No. 2023-204196 (JP), filed on Dec. 1, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0323292 A1, Sep. 26, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 1/38 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00859 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00482 (2013.01); H04N 1/00824 (2013.01); H04N 1/0084 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image reading apparatus comprising:
a scanner to read a document;
a memory to store an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner; and
circuitry configured to:
identify a user;
send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition;
determine whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document;
search a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document; and
display, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.