Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Neturen Co., Ltd.

Makoto Takaoka

Susumu Sugiura

Shigetada Kobayashi

Toyokazu Uda

Yoshinobu Mita

Junichi Shishizuka

Mitsumasa Sugiyama

Yasuhiko Hashimoto

Kazuhiro Saito

Osamu Yamada

Yoshikazu Yokomizo

Yasuo Fukuda

Kentaro Matsumoto

Masanari Toda

Yukari Toda

Tsutomu Negishi

Tetsuzo Mori

Hiroyuki Ichikawa

Hiroyuki Nakanishi

Yoji Kaneko

Shigeo Fukuoka

Yukari Shimomura

Katsutoshi Hisada

Takashi Sugino

Shugoro Ueno

Masami Fukumoto

Takashi Nakamura

Masahiro Funada

Katsunori Hatanaka

Akinobu Nishikata

Kunitaka Ozawa

Yoshiyuki Murata

Keizo Isemura

Nobuaki Miyahara

Toshio Ito

Tomotoshi Kanatsu

Kiyoshi Kusama

Akihiro Usami

Akira Katayama

Shigeki Yamada

Tetsuomi Tanaka

Rieko Akiba

Yasumasa Sakai

Hiroshi Ohwada

Masami Uda

Satoru Kakoo

A main reinforcing bar has a strength transition portion between a normal strength portion and a high strength portion. The high strength portion is arranged in a joint section. The boundary between the normal strength portion and the strength transition portion is configured as a deigned point. The designed point is designed such that, at the time of an earthquake, the main reinforcing bar yields at the designed point before the main reinforcing bar yields at the root of the beam at of the joint section. The boundary between the high strength portion and the strength transition portion is located in the joint section, and the root of the beam is located at the strength transition portion. The strength of the strength transition portion at the root of the beam is equal to or higher than the required strength.

Reinforced concrete structure

A plurality of kinds of electronic source documents are held. An electronic binder builder composes an integrated electronic document on the basis of the electronic documents of the plurality of kinds of electronic source documents held. For the integrated electronic document, a desired electronic source document page is selected from electronic source document pages. The selected material page is edited, and the compositions of the electronic source documents and integrated electronic document are controlled on the basis of the editing result.

Electronic document binder builder

There is disclosed a control apparatus for a scanner/printer including a unit for generating print data described in a page description language, a unit for generating a command regarding a scanner for scanning an original image, and a unit for producing the print data and the command regarding the scanner to a common device through a network.

Control apparatus for a scanner/printer

An image processing apparatus which obtains an output result faithful to an original image independently of characteristics of a device to optically read the original image. When the original image is read by an image scanner, layout and the like of the read image are analyzed, recognition is performed on characters, and compression is performed on an image area. The image data is stored with Profile (color characteristic information) unique to the image scanner. When the image is displayed or print-outputted, color matching is performed in accordance with Profile of a display device or printer and the Profile of the image scanner, and the image is reproduced.

Image processing apparatus and method for processing a color image, and storage medium storing program code of the method

The structure of entered document image data is analyzed and a character string in a text block that has been analyzed is subjected to pattern recognition. Synonyms and equivalents of words obtained as results of language analysis are extracted and words obtained as results of language analysis are converted to words of another language. A character string in a text block that has been analyzed is translated to another language. At least results of analyzing the structure of document image data, results of character recognition and results of language analysis are stored, and at least one of the results of extraction, results of conversion and results of translation are stored in a RAM in association with the results of character recognition.

Information processing apparatus and method, and computer readable memory therefor

A printer server connectable to a plurality of printers includes a receiver for receiving print data from an external apparatus, a first discrimination unit for discriminating a representation by which the received print data is described, and a selection unit for selecting, from the plurality of printers, a printer to print an image corresponding to the received print data. A second discrimination unit of the printer server discriminates whether the selected printer is capable of processing print data in the discriminated representation. When the selected printer is not capable of processing print data in the discriminated representation, a controller of the printer sever converts the received print data into print data in another representation and transmits the print data in the other representation. The controller transmits print data in the discriminated representation when the selected printer is capable of processing print data in the discriminated representation. The apparatus also includes a status receiver for receiving, from the selected printer, status information indicating that transmitting print data has been printed normally. A status sending unit of the apparatus sends the status information to the external apparatus.

Printing apparatus and printing method for converting print data to a representation supported by a selected printer

To make it possible to process or retrieve a recorded image in accordance with the location where the image is recorded and record digital image data together with GPS information when capturing a digital image by a video camera. Moreover, when GPS information cannot be captured, GPS information of a certain time before is captured. Furthermore, a system is disclosed which accesses the internet in accordance with the captured GPS information.

Communication apparatus and method that link a network address with designated image information

A user designates a two-sided copying mode, a reduced-scale copying mode, a vertical or horizontal binding direction, and the like from a control panel. An original image is magnification-varied at a designated reduction magnification, and the reduced image is stored in a page memory. In the case of an odd page (front surface) in a single-sided or two-sided copying mode, a &ggr; conversion circuit reads out and outputs stored image data in the normal order, thus forming images. On the other hand, in the case of an even page (back page) in the two-sided copying mode, whether the horizontal or vertical binding direction is designated is checked. If the binding direction agrees with the reversing axis direction of a paper sheet upon copying, images are read out in the normal order. When the vertical binding direction is designated, images are read out in an order opposite to the normal order, so that each page is rotated through 180&deg;. Images are copied in the designated layout.

Image forming apparatus and method

An image block is detected by raster scanning an input image and chasing surrounding black pixels around a detected black pixel as the start point in sequence. Further, by judging the feature of the detected image block, the attribute of the image block can be judged. Also, by comparing the detected image block with a predetermined window, it is possible to determine whether or not the image block is noise, whereby image processing of higher accuracy can be effected.

Image processing method and apparatus for discriminating an input image area or an attribute of image information in the discriminated area

An input/output apparatus is connected to a plurality of host computers via a network and executes both a scanning function and a printing function. The apparatus includes a portion that generates image data from data input from a first one of the host computers and prints the generated image data by executing the printing function, and further includes an output device that scans image data by executing the scanning function and outputs the scanned image data to a second one of the host computers in response to a request command. As a result, the input/output apparatus may operate in coordination with a plurality of personal computers by using the network to transfer image data therebetween.

Input/output apparatus connected to a plurality of host computers via a network

The direction of the document in the original image read by an image reader unit (,) is discriminated by a document direction discrimination unit (,). Rotation processing and the like are performed for the original image in accordance with the discriminated direction. The resultant image is output onto a recording paper sheet. When a fault diagnosis unit (,) diagnoses the document direction discrimination unit (,) and determines that the unit is faulty, the image processing apparatus recognizes the direction of the document in the original image on the basis of information provided from the operator through an operation unit (,), and executes the above processing.

Image processing apparatus and method which process image on the basis of direction of document

An image processor performs a high accuracy orientation determination process on a color image. A color component analyzer determines a frequency of appearance of each color component based on color image data of an input original document, and an orientation determining block determines the orientation of the original document by a character recognition process based on the frequency of appearance result. The color image data is then subjected to a predetermined editing in accordance with the determination results, and the edited image data is output.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A system enables the reading characteristic of an image reader in a network to be recognized by a host computer. The SP server device transfers the reading characteristics of a plurality of scanner printers to a designated client host computer and through a network.

Server device and image processing device

An image processing apparatus includes an image input device for photoelectrically converting a document image which has been optically read and for inputting the converted document image as image data. An area separator separates a plurality of areas included in the input image data from one another and a character recognition is performed from a plurality of directions with respect to character data in the image data input by the image input device with reference to a character recognition dictionary. The apparatus performs a first discriminating function of discriminating, for the plurality of areas separated by the area separator, respective reliabilities in a plurality of directions on the basis of results of the character recognition, and second discrimination function for discriminating a document direction on the basis of average values of the reliabilities discriminated by the first discriminating function.

Character recognition in input images divided into areas

Document image data entered from a scanner are separated into a plurality of areas by an area separation unit. Attributes are assigned to respective ones of the plurality of partial areas obtained in the area separation unit. For instance, a character area in the main body of text and a character area in a table are examples of area attributes. Each of these attributes is assigned a degree of priority in advance. A character recognition/orientation discrimination unit detects character orientation in each of the plurality of partial areas and discriminates document orientation. The orientation of the document image data is determined based upon the document orientation of each partial area discriminated by the character recognition/orientation discrimination unit and the degree of priority of the attribute assigned to each partial area. Further, first and second recognition units for recognizing characters used in the Japanese and English languages, respectively, are provided, and the image data undergo recognition by each of these recognition units. The recognition rate of each result of recognition is obtained, the recognition rates are judged by a decision unit and one of the results is selected by a selector based upon the judgment made. The selected result of recognition is outputted.

System for discriminating document orientation

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Yokohama, Japan

Makoto Takaoka