US 7,460,736 B2
Scan data transmission apparatus and scan data transmission system
Satoshi Iinuma, Nagano (Japan); Yuji Matsueda, Nagano (Japan); and Yukinobu Momozono, Nagano (Japan)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/38,786.
Claims priority of application No. P. 2004-011857 (JP), filed on Jan. 20, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0174592 A1, Aug. 11, 2005
Int. Cl. G06K 9/60 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 382—305  [382/306; 382/307; 707/2; 707/10; 707/205] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A scan data transmission apparatus being connected to a network for use, said scan data transmission apparatus comprising:
an image data generator that generates from a set original, image data representing an image on the original;
an information storage that stores a plurality of user names and a plurality of e-mail addresses in such a manner that correspondence between the user names and the e-mail addresses can be understood;
a user interface unit that allows a user to specify a file path of a folder in which a file of the image data generated by the image data generator is to be saved after the user specifies one user name from among the user names stored in the information storage;
an image data transmitter that executes, when a processing start command is entered, processing of causing the image data generator to generate the image data and saving a file concerning the image data in the folder identified by the folder path specified by the user for the user interface unit; and
a processing completion notification mail transmitter that transmits, when the processing of the image data transmitter terminates, transmits processing completion notification mail of e-mail to the e-mail address which is stored in the information storage and related to the user name specified by the user, wherein the processing completion notification includes a main body that indicates, whether or not the processing of the image data transmitter has normally completed,
wherein the processing completion notification mail transmitter transmits processing completion notification mail in which the file path specified by the user for the user interface unit is set in the main body as the processing completion notification mail.