Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenzou Sekiguchi

Hiroyuki Yaguchi

Shinichi Kato

Hiroyuki Tsuji

Hiroyoshi Yoshida

Yushi Matsukubo

Masakazu Kitora

Eiichi Nishikawa

Toru Maeda

Kotaro Yamaguchi

Tomohiro Akiba

Ryo Kosaka

Kenji Aiyama

Ritsushi Tanabe

An image processing apparatus is provided, which makes it possible to classify and store documents after scanning the documents by intuitive operations such as physically classifying the documents. The image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data obtained by capturing an image of a document placed in an image capturing area; and a classification unit configured to classify the acquired image data according to at least one of a direction to which the document is framed-out from the image capturing area and a direction from which the document is framed-in to the image capturing area.

Image processing apparatus, method, and program

A communication device allows a user to get access from the outside via an external public line to obtain e-mail data stored in a device connected to an internal system via a computer network such as a LAN without causing a reduction in security. More specifically, the communication device is connected to a LAN via a LAN I/F and also connected to the public line via a line I/F. If the communication device receives a remote operation command via the public line, a CPU of the communication device gets access to a post office of an e-mail server so as to get e-mail data in accordance with the remote operation command. The obtained e-mail data is converted to facsimile image data and transmitted by means of facsimile to a specified destination.

Communication device having the capability of performing information exchange between a facsimile medium and an electronic information medium such as an E-mail medium

This invention provides an image processing system and image processing method which allow a user to easily confirm conversion result information when image information is converted into vector data. Image information input from an input device () is vectorized by a data processing device (). Vector data which has successfully been vectorized is converted into image data. The input image information and the converted image data are combined to generate and output combined image data.

Image processing system and image processing method

This invention provides an image editing method having a selecting step of selecting an edit target area, a cancellation step of canceling a selection of the edit target area selected in the selecting step, and an area selecting step of selecting again the edit target area by indicating the inside of the edit target area.

Image editing system and method therefor

A read document image is converted into first vector data. First layout structure information representing the layout structure of the first vector data is generated. The first layout structure information is changed into second layout structure information on the basis of preset layout setting information. The first vector data is converted into second vector data on the basis of the changed second layout structure information.

Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program

This invention provides an image processing system and image processing method which can promote efficient use of a memory by vectorizing all data of a representative object and, for the same or similar object, referring to the vectorized representative object and using difference data and also convert the same or similar objects at once by editing only the representative object. Input image information is vectorized. The vector data of a representative object is stored. Identity between a target object and the representative object is determined. If the two objects are identical, property information containing information about the reference destination of the vector data of the representative object is stored in place of the vector data of the target object.

Communication device having the capability of performing information exchange between a facsimile medium and an electronic information medium such as an e-mail medium

Vector data corresponding to a scanned original image is generated. An edit image of the original image corresponding to the display resolution of a display is generated on the basis of the vector data, and display of the edit image on the display is controlled.

An electronic file corresponding to a scanned original image is specified on the basis of the original image. If the electronic file corresponding to the original image cannot be specified, the original image is converted into vector data. The vector data is converted into image data. The first image data of the original image is compared with the second image data generated by the second conversion unit. On the basis of the comparison result, the first image data or vector data is selected as the electronic file corresponding to the original image.

An image processing apparatus includes: a reading unit adapted to read an image and to generate image data representing the image; a separating unit adapted to separate the image data obtained by the reading unit into a plurality of objects corresponding to attributes; a selecting unit adapted to select a predetermined attribute of the image; a vectorization unit adapted to perform a vector conversion process for the image data separated by the separating unit in accordance with the predetermined attribute selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit adapted to output the image data processed by the vectorization unit.

Image processing apparatus and method for converting image data to predetermined format

There are provided an image processing system and image processing method which can appropriately set whether to convert an original paper document into re-usable vector data before obtaining vector data from the paper document. An image scanning unit () scans a document to obtain image information, and a storage device () stores the image information. A data processing device () detects control information appended to the document from the image information and determines whether vectorization of the image information is permitted or inhibited. If the data processing device () determines that vectorization is permitted, it converts the image information into vector data; otherwise, it directly stores the image information in the storage device ().

An image processing system and method includes selecting a color desired by a user, extracting a partial image corresponding to the color desired by the user and selected from a bit-map image, converting the partial image into vector data, storing the vector data in a memory, and setting the converted vector data as vector data to be processed as desired by the user. The image processing system and method further includes calculating a palette color from the bit-map image, extracting a partial image corresponding to the palette color, converting the partial image into vector data per color object, storing the vector data in a memory, and setting, as vector data to be processed as desired by the user, vector data per object that is selected from the vector data stored in the memory based on the color selected from the calculated palette colors.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and storage medium

An image processing apparatus allows a user to obtain only data on a desirable WWW (World Wide Web) server and print the obtained data. The image processing apparatus, which accesses HTML (HyperText Markup Language) data on a WWW server in accordance with designated address information and which prints the HTML data, allows for requesting of a source that specifies the address information an acceptance for the accessing or printing of data other than those data that correspond to the designated address information and that are linked with the pertinent data, and when the acceptance requested cannot be obtained from the source that specifies the address information, halts access or printing of the data other than data that correspond to the designated address information and that are linked with the pertinent data.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenzou Sekiguchi