Carrier-related information management system and image reading apparatus

Abstract

A system for managing information on a carrier, and an image reading apparatus, which enable easy resetting of correction data. When a film carrier is mounted in an image reading apparatus main body, a control section reads the identification number of the film carrier from an EEPROM, and determines whether the identification number corresponds to any of the identification numbers stored in a RAM. When correspondence is not found, it determines that the film carrier is mounted in the main body for the first time, and correction data is read from the EEPROM and stored in the RAM with the identification number. Instead of losing the correction data if the substrate is replaced, the correction data stored in the RAM is read from the control section and written into a new EEPROM, thereby enabling easy resetting of the correction data.

1 - 3 . (canceled)  
     
     
         4 . A system for managing information on a carrier, comprising: 
 a carrier for holding an image recording medium;    a carrier storage component provided with the carrier and storing correction data unique to the carrier:    an image reading apparatus which reads image information corresponding to the image recording medium held by the carrier when the carrier is mounted in the image reading apparatus: and    an information management component which, if the information management component has no correction data for the carrier mounted in the image reading apparatus, reads the correction data for the carrier from the carrier storage component and stores the data,    wherein, if the carrier storage component is replaced, the correction data for the carrier is read from the information management component and written into the replacement carrier storage component when the carrier is mounted in the image reading apparatus,    wherein the information management component is connected to a plurality of image reading apparatuses.    
     
     
         5 - 6 . (canceled)  
     
     
         7 . A system for managing information on a carrier, comprising: 
 a carrier for holding an image recording medium;    a carrier storage component provided with a carrier and storing correction data unique to the carrier;    an image reading apparatus which reads image information of the image recording medium when the carrier is mounted in the image reading apparatus; and    an information management component which, when the carrier is mounted in the image reading apparatus, detects information for the image reading, and adds the detected information to the information on the same carrier, which is stored in the information management component.    
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein, if the carrier breaks down, the information on the carrier, which has been added to the information in the information management component and stored therein, is written into the carrier storage component of the carrier.  
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein the image reading apparatus having the correction data stored therein is operated based on the correction data, generates new correction data by adjusting the correction data, and reads, based on the new correction data, an image on the image recording medium held in the carrier.  
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein the information on the carrier includes at least one of production information and operation information of the carrier.  
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the production information includes an identification number of an operator.  
     
     
         12 - 15 . (canceled)