Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsuhiro Yamamoto

Masahiro Funada

Toshiyuki Kitamura

Eiji Ohta

Katsuya Yamashita

Hideyuki Fujiwara

Yoshitaka Masuzawa

Shigeto Nakayama

Hisashi Sato

The invention provides a system that associates data files with one another effectively to visually represent a relation among the data files and allows a user to easily understand relationship of contents of the data files. The system determines whether there is a parent data file for a selected retrieval object data file with reference to a contract association table and, if the parent data file is present, changes the retrieval object to the parent data file and repeats the processing. If the parent data file is not present, the system stores a present retrieval object data file as display data, that is, store a top data file as display data. Then, the system retrieves all data files associated with the top data file, stores the data files as display data, generates a relation diagram of the data files, and transmits the relation diagram to a user terminal.

Generating a relation diagram of data files

An image processing apparatus previously stores information on particular kinds of image, determines the degree of similarity between an input full-color image signal and the information on particular kinds of image, controls conditions for addition of a particular pattern previously stored according to a result of the determination, and outputs an image by adding or not adding the particular pattern to the full-color image signal according to the addition conditions.

Image processing apparatus and method which adds predetermined

Image processing apparatus which adds identification data to images

Image processing apparatus and method for confirming the state of an

Image processing apparatus which adds apparatus identification data to

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Kawasaki, Japan

Mitsuhiro Yamamoto