IP Library Patent Application 15893783
Patent Application
App. No. 15/893,783

IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

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15/893,783
Abstract

An image management system includes an image output apparatus and an image management server. The image output apparatus displays and outputs an image. The image management server manages the image output from the image output apparatus. The image output apparatus captures, as image files, an image that is based on a specific data file and an image that is not based on the specific data file, in accordance with a predetermined capture condition, and transmits the image files to the image management server. The image management server includes a management unit that holds the image files received from the image output apparatus, and manages the image that is not based on the specific data file in association with the specific data file, and a communication controller that transmits, when receiving a request for an image, the request specifying the specific data file, the image associated with the specific data file.

Claims (41)

1 . An image management system comprising:

an image output apparatus that displays and outputs an image; and

an image management server that manages the image output from the image output apparatus,

wherein the image output apparatus captures, as image files, an image that is based on a specific data file and an image that is not based on the specific data file, in accordance with a predetermined capture condition, and transmits the image files to the image management server, and

wherein the image management server includes

a management unit that holds the image files received from the image output apparatus, and manages the image that is not based on the specific data file in association with the specific data file, and

a communication controller that transmits, when receiving a request for an image, the request specifying the specific data file, the image associated with the specific data file.

2 . The image management system according to claim 1 , wherein the image output apparatus captures an image file in accordance with the capture condition that an image to be output is changed.

3 . The image management system according to claim 1 , wherein the image output apparatus captures an image file in accordance with the capture condition that a predetermined time has passed since an image to be output is changed.

4 . The image management system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the communication controller of the image management server transmits, when receiving a request for an image, the request specifying the specific data file, the image associated with the specific data file and the image that is based on the specific data file.

5 . The image management system according to claim 2 ,

wherein the communication controller of the image management server transmits, when receiving a request for an image, the request specifying the specific data file, the image associated with the specific data file and the image that is based on the specific data file.

6 . The image management system according to claim 3 ,

wherein the communication controller of the image management server transmits, when receiving a request for an image, the request specifying the specific data file, the image associated with the specific data file and the image that is based on the specific data file.

7 . The image management system according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a file management server that manages the specific data file,

wherein when receiving a request for an image, the request specifying the specific data file, the image management server instructs the file management server to transmit the specified specific data file to a request source.

8 . The image management system according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a file management server that manages the specific data file,

wherein when receiving a request for an image, the request specifying the specific data file, the image management server instructs the file management server to transmit the specified specific data file to a request source.

9 . The image management system according to claim 3 , further comprising:

a file management server that manages the specific data file,

wherein when receiving a request for an image, the request specifying the specific data file, the image management server instructs the file management server to transmit the specified specific data file to a request source.

10 . The image management system according to claim 7 ,

wherein when receiving a request for the specific data file, the file management server instructs the image management server to transmit the image associated with the specific data file to the request source, and

wherein the communication controller of the image management server transmits the image associated with the specific data file to the request source for the specific data file, in accordance with the instruction from the file management server.

11 . The image management system according to claim 8 ,

wherein when receiving a request for the specific data file, the file management server instructs the image management server to transmit the image associated with the specific data file to the request source, and

wherein the communication controller of the image management server transmits the image associated with the specific data file to the request source for the specific data file, in accordance with the instruction from the file management server.

12 . The image management system according to claim 9 ,

wherein when receiving a request for the specific data file, the file management server instructs the image management server to transmit the image associated with the specific data file to the request source, and

wherein the communication controller of the image management server transmits the image associated with the specific data file to the request source for the specific data file, in accordance with the instruction from the file management server.

13 . An image management server comprising:

an image file acquisition unit that acquires image files of an image that is based on a specific data file displayed and output by an image output apparatus and an image that is not based on the specific data file;

a management unit that holds the image files in a case where the images of the image files are displayed, and manages the image that is not based on the specific data file in association with the specific data file; and

a communication controller that transmits, when receiving a request for an image, the request specifying the specific data file, the image associated with the specific data file.

14 . A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for image management, the process comprising:

acquiring image files of an image that is based on a specific data file displayed and output by an image output apparatus and an image that is not based on the specific data file;

causing the image files to be stored in a memory in a case where the images of the image files are displayed, and managing the image that is not based on the specific data file in association with the specific data file; and

transmitting, when receiving a request for an image, the request specifying the specific data file, the image associated with the specific data file.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 29, 2021
From: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
To: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Reel/Frame 056092/0913 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 12, 2018
From: NISHI, EIJI; SAKAKURA, KEITA; ISHIZUKA, RYUICHI; NAKATA, CHIGUSA; HONDA, HIROSHI; SEKINE, YOSHIHIRO; KUROISHI, KENJI; MIKURIYA, HIROSHI; FURUYA, TAKESHI
To: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 044899/0327 →