Abstract: A data communication system, an image processing apparatus, a program and a data communication method which permit a user to command a reply multicast transmission in reply to a multicast transmission with easy operations. In executing a multicast transmission of first image data, the image processing apparatus sends a job ID together with the first image data to a computer which is one of the receivers of the multicast transmission. Concurrently, the image processing apparatus stores the job ID and the receivers of the multicast transmission in relative to each other as history information. When the computer replies to the multicast transmission, the computer sends a reply e-mail including second image data and the job ID to the image processing apparatus. Then, the image processing apparatus extracts the job ID from the reply e-mail and searches the history information for receivers of the multicast transmission identified by the job ID.

Abstract: In order to allow the communication method for receiving data to be set at the side receiving the data, among a plurality of data communication apparatuses, a data transmission apparatus includes a destination designation portion for accepting designation of user identification information, a data accepting portion for accepting data, a data transmission portion for transmitting the data based on a communication method and destination information stored in association with the user identification information, a comparing portion for comparing the communication method stored in association with user identification information included in reply data with a communication method by which the reply data was received when the reply data for the transmitted data is received, and an update portion for updating the communication method and the destination information stored in association with the user identification information included in the reply data with the communication method by which the reply data was recei

Abstract: A data communication system, an image processing apparatus, a program and a data communication method which permit a user to command a reply multicast transmission in reply to a multicast transmission with easy operations. In executing a multicast transmission of first image data, the image processing apparatus sends a job ID together with the first image data to a computer which is one of the receivers of the multicast transmission. Concurrently, the image processing apparatus stores the job ID and the receivers of the multicast transmission in relative to each other as history information. When the computer replies to the multicast transmission, the computer sends a reply e-mail including second image data and the job ID to the image processing apparatus. Then, the image processing apparatus extracts the job ID from the reply e-mail and searches the history information for receivers of the multicast transmission identified by the job ID.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus executes a multicast transmission of image data to a computer and other devices. Concurrently, the image forming apparatus stores history information on the multicast transmission, and the history information includes destinations of the multicast transmission. The computer receives the image data from the image forming apparatus by the multicast transmission. Then, when the computer is to execute a reply multicast transmission in reply to the multicast transmission, the computer, by using a printing driver for the image forming apparatus, sends the data name of the image data and data to be sent by the reply multicast transmission to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus receives the data name and the data to be sent by the reply multicast transmission, and the image forming apparatus designates other computers and/or devices as destinations of the reply multicast transmission, based on the history information and the data name.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus wherein a plural number of optional ways of processing image data are stored in connection with each user, and one of the ways is designated as an initial setting for the user's way of processing image data. The image data are data sent from an exterior device to a specified user or data which a scanning section generated by reading a document image. Each user can change his/her initial setting arbitrarily. Depending on the device which a user logs in and/or the attributes of data, the way of processing data is changed from the initial setting to another of the stored optional ways or to a new way which is different from the initial setting in at least one item. Thereby, each user can receive data in a more convenient way.

Abstract: Position information of a defect in a charge transfer line in an image capturing sensor, which causes a V-line blemish in an image is stored in a blemish information memory. A normal transfer is performed on signal charges in a defective portion in the signal charges corresponding to all of pixels of the image capturing sensor, and signal charges that are not related to the defective portion are transferred at high speed and discharged, thereby reading signal charges for detecting the level of a V-line blemish.

Abstract: For a V-line noise occurring in an image due to a defect in a VCCD of an image sensor, a position where a V-line noise is expected to occur when an image capture apparatus is in an initial state (initial noise position) is previously stored in a noise address memory. Then, a V-line noise is corrected by either using information about the initial noise position or detecting a position of the V-line noise, depending factors responsible for a temperature of the image sensor (a temperature of a substrate of the image sensor, a time period which has elapsed since the image capture apparatus was activated, and establishment or non-establishment of a continuous photographing mode), in other words, depending on a state of the image capture apparatus.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor such as a CCD, and a timing generator for outputting electronic shutter pulse signals (SUB pulse signals) which are used for changing a potential of an overflow drain (OFD) in the image sensor. The timing generator outputs normal SUB pulses to the image sensor during live view display and outputs inverted SUB pulses obtained by inverting a phase of the normal SUB pulses to the image sensor during a time period from a time when an instruction for photographing is given (S2 state is established) to a time when exposure is started. As a result, charges can be released from the OFD for a relatively long time before exposure for photographing, so that blooming can be satisfactorily suppressed with a simple circuit configuration.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image capturing apparatus capable of realizing both improved operability and higher picture quality. In the case where a sports mode which is mainly selected when the subject is a moving subject is set, at the time of image capturing, by electrically connecting a first terminal and a second terminal of a switch to each other to set a state where a base current of a transistor does not flow, a substrate voltage is not switched. On the other hand, in the case where the normal image capturing mode is set which is mainly selected when the subject is stationary, the first terminal and a third terminal of the switch are electrically connected to each other, and a signal is supplied to the base side of the transistor through a resistor, thereby setting so that an emitter current of the transistor flows and switching the substrate voltage.