Patent 7477411 was granted and assigned to Konica Minolta on January, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The transfer apparatus receives image data from the MFP (S11), and acquires processing information which indicates what data-processing has been performed on the image data by the MFP. Furthermore, the transfer apparatus performs additional processing on the image data based on the processing information and the destination (S12 and S15), and transmits this processed data to the destination (S13).