A portable terminal has a memory having a program stored thereon and readably by a computer. The program causes the portable terminal to perform searching an image processing apparatus capable of executing an image processing operation by a first method, determining whether the image processing apparatus is detected in the searching by the first method, searching the image processing apparatus by a second method in a case where it is determined that the image processing apparatus is not detected as a result of the searching by the first method, storing apparatus information for identifying the image processing apparatus detected in the searching by the first method or the searching by the second method, and transmitting operation instruction information for instructing execution of the image processing operation to the image processing apparatus identified with the designated apparatus information stored.

A portable device and a method of executing the fast association function of a camera are provided. The method includes activating the camera, capturing a gathering image using the camera, activating a user function registered as an associated function of the camera when the gathering image is captured, and performing the registered user function based on the gathering image.

A multi function peripheral (MFP) receives a setting of destination information from a user (FIG. 6). Each time the MFP reads a predetermined number of documents, the MFP repeats a series of steps of establishing a communication session with a destination (S1006), transmitting image data (S1007), and ending the communication session with the destination (S1008). Thereby, the MFP transmits image data to a plurality of destinations (S1001 to S1011).

A portable device and a method of executing the fast association function of a camera are provided. The method includes activating the camera, capturing a gathering image using the camera, activating a user function registered as an associated function of the camera when the gathering image is captured, and performing the registered user function based on the gathering image.

An image processing apparatus includes a printing unit, a storage unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit stores communication addresses of image processing apparatuses in a group to which the apparatus belongs. In response to a request for registration in the group from a different image processing apparatus, the processing unit causes the storage unit to store a communication address of the different image processing apparatus, and transmits a registration commission for registering the communication address of the different image processing apparatus in the group to the image processing apparatuses in the group using the communication addresses stored in the storage unit.