US 11,991,322 B2
Server for providing a setting screen with previously used settings to a client apparatus for image transmission
Kenta Inoue, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/214,172.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-060760 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0306476 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00214 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00244 (2013.01); H04N 1/00474 (2013.01); H04N 1/00482 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A server that can access a cloud service, the server comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and
at least one processor executing the instructions causing the server to:
provide a setting screen for making a first setting for first scanned image data, to a client apparatus;
transmit the first scanned image data to a cloud service in accordance with the first setting that has been received from a user of the client apparatus on the setting screen; and
store, as one of a plurality of settings stored in the memory, the first setting that has been received from the user on the setting screen, in association with both of arrangement information indicating arrangements of character regions included in the first scanned image data and user information regarding the user,
wherein, in a case where a setting screen for making a second setting for new scanned image data is to be provided and where the at least one processor determines that a third setting, which is associated with both of arrangement information similar to arrangement information indicating arrangements of character regions included in the new scanned image data and user information regarding a same user as a user who makes the second setting for the new scanned image data, has been already stored as one of the stored plurality of settings in the memory, the at least one processor provides the setting screen for making the second setting for the new scanned image data in a state where the third setting is reflected without the user selecting the third setting,
wherein, in a case where the setting screen for making the second setting for the new scanned image data is to be provided and where the at least one processor determines that the third setting is not stored in the memory, the at least one processor provides the setting screen for making the second setting for the new scanned image data in a state where a default setting is reflected, and
wherein the default setting is different from the third setting.