摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decide what attributes of image is affecting the fact that the charge amount is high. <P>SOLUTION: With regard to image data of an image of a document read by a scanner and stored in a frame memory, a digital copy machine determines the attribute (image size, monochromatic/color and resolution) of an image that affects the capacity of the image data (steps S5-S7). The digital copy machine then refers to a table, based on a result of the determination and calculates the charge amount of a price, corresponding to the processing reading the document by the scanner, and then storing the document on an HDD (step S8). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |