Dynamic Address Confirmation for Confidential Image Transmission
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often disable the address confirming function in image transmitting apparatuses due to its cumbersome nature, leading to potential incorrect transmission of confidential documents, which can result in leaks even when marked as confidential.
Innovation Solution
An image transmitting apparatus that automatically displays the specified address before transmission, allowing users to confirm it, and adds a mark like 'CONFIDENTIAL' or 'IMPORTANT' to the image data, ensuring correct addressing and preventing leaks by integrating a preview display of the image data and address confirmation screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the address confirming function is always enabled, then transmission accuracy is improved, but operation convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic address confirming function that automatically activates when confidential documents are detected and deactivates for ordinary documents. The control unit monitors document attributes and adjusts the confirmation requirement dynamically, resolving the contradiction by making the system adaptive rather than static.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary detection of confidential documents before transmission and pre-activates the address confirming function only for those documents. This preliminary action ensures that confirmation is required only when necessary, maintaining convenience for ordinary operations while ensuring accuracy for confidential transmissions.
2Ease of operation
If the address confirming function is disabled, then operation convenience is improved, but transmission accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the address confirming function based on document classification. When confidential documents are detected, the confirmation function automatically activates, ensuring transmission accuracy. For non-confidential documents, the function remains disabled, maintaining operational convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit provides feedback by detecting document attributes and automatically adjusting whether address confirmation is required. This feedback mechanism ensures that the system responds appropriately to different document types, maintaining both convenience and accuracy as needed.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If marks are added to confidential documents, then information security is improved, but transmission reliability deteriorates when addresses are incorrect
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by automatically activating the address confirming function when confidential documents are detected. This preventive measure counteracts the potential harm of incorrect transmission before it occurs, ensuring that even though marks are added for security, the transmission reliability is protected through automatic confirmation requirements.
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AI summary
An image transmitting apparatus is provided that automatically displays an address before transmission if a user gives an instruction for adding a mark such as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “IMPORTANT”. The image transmitting apparatus of the present invention is the image transmitting apparatus transmits image data to a specified address includes an image adding portion that adds a predetermined specific image to the image data in accordance with a user's operation, wherein displays a specified address of image data before transmitting the image data to which it is indicated to add the specific image and transmits the image data with the specific image added in accordance with a user's confirming operation.