US 7,612,906 B2
Data output apparatus, data output method, program, and storage medium
Masayuki Toda, Yokohama (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 09, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/223,724.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-264596 (JP), filed on Sep. 10, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0055975 A1, Mar. 16, 2006
Int. Cl. G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—1.16  [400/76] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A data output device comprising:
an input unit adapted to be capable of inputting at least data of a specific storage unit;
an output unit adapted to output an input data;
a storage unit different from said specific storage unit;
a controller adapted to generate data to be output by said output unit using a storage area of said specific storage unit when output of data of said specific storage unit is executed by said output unit, to execute, using a storage area of said specific storage unit, a first generation process for, of data of said specific storage unit, data of a part which requires high security, and to execute a second generation process for data of a remaining part of data of said specific storage unit using a storage area of said storage unit; and
a selector adapted to select any one of a mode to store both data generated by the first generation process and data generated by the second generation process in said specific storage unit, a mode to store only data generated by the first generation process in said specific storage unit, and a mode to delete both data generated by the first generation process and data generated by the second generation process.