Imaging Device for Scan-To-Mobile Computing Device

摘要

Users seek to obtain documents on their mobile computing device, such as a smart phone or tablet. Their device has a quick response (QR) code reader application and a camera for capturing QR codes. An imaging device scans the document and transfers its image to a remote computing device, such as a server, for storage. The remote device returns to the imaging device a uniform resource locator (URL) and unique identifier corresponding to the image. The imaging device displays to the user a QR code corresponding to the URL and unique identifier. The user captures the QR code with the camera of their mobile device and the QR code reader application launches a browser. The image is requested to be transferred to the mobile computing device. Upon return of the image from the remote computing device, the image of the document is displayed to the user.

主权项

1. An imaging device configured for communication with a remote computing device, comprising:
a scanner for receiving and scanning hard copy input documents; a controller in communication with the scanner for converting into digital images the hard copy input documents; an application installed for operation on the controller; and a user interface for a user to select for execution the application, the controller configured to send the digital images to the remote computing device and to receive back from the remote computing device a uniform resource locator and unique identifier corresponding to the digital images, wherein upon said receiving back the uniform resource locator and unique identifier from the remote computing device the controller causes for display on the user interface a quick response code that can be captured by a mobile computing device, the quick response code on the mobile computing device facilitating retrieval of the digital images on a display thereof.