Pfu Limited

Tomoaki Wada

Ken Yanai

Katsuhiro Hattori

Kiyoto Kosaka

Takeshi Yokogawa

Hiroaki Kawanobe

Keiji Ohara

Yutaka Harano

Koki Hamaya

An information processing system, which determines a partial area used in an erectness determination which determines whether a determination target image is erect based on a determination feature in the partial area in an image having a predetermined format and a position of the partial area in a state in which the image having the predetermined format is erect, includes processor to receive input of a plurality of learning images having the predetermined format, extract area common to the plurality of learning images in an erect state as a candidate for the partial area, determine common area reliability indicative of a degree to which the candidate for the partial area is suitable as the partial area used in the erectness determination, and determine the partial area used in the erectness determination from the candidate for the partial area, based on the common area reliability.

Information processing system, area determination method, and medium

An information processing apparatus includes a processor to store a determination feature in a predetermined partial area in an image having a predetermined format and a position of the partial area in a state in which the predetermined format image is erect, and determine whether a feature corresponding to the determination feature is present at a position in an at least one input determination target image corresponding to the position of the partial area in the predetermined format image to thereby determine whether the determination target image is erect.

Information processing apparatus, image orientation determination method, and medium

To improve the efficiency of work for checking an image obtained by imaging by a user, an information processing device acquires a plurality of images obtained by imaging a plurality of subjects, determines, for each of the plurality of images, a certainty factor with which the image has a predetermined attribute, determines, for each of the plurality of images, whether the certainty factor is less than a predetermined reference, and notifies a user of an image of which the certainty factor is determined to be less than the predetermined reference.

Information processing device, method and medium

An image processing apparatus includes a storage device for storing a position of a predetermined region in an image conforming to a predetermined format, a processor for acquiring an input image including a character recognition target region, cutting out a region corresponding to the character recognition target region from the input image or an image generated from the input image to generate a corrected image in which the region is placed at the position of the predetermined region in the image conforming to the predetermined format, and detecting a character from the corrected image, and an output device for outputting information related to the detected character.

Image processing apparatus for placing a character recognition target region at a position of a predetermined region in an image conforming to a predetermined format

An image reading apparatus includes a plurality of conveyance mechanisms for clamping and conveying a medium, an imaging device for generating an input image in which a medium is imaged, a storage device for storing relative positions of the plurality of conveyance mechanisms with respect to an imaging position of the imaging device, and a processor for dividing the input image into a plurality of regions according to a number of conveyance mechanisms clamping a medium when each pixel in the input image is photographed, based on the relative positions, and setting a reliability level to each divided region in such a way that the reliability level increases as the number of conveyance mechanisms related to each region divided increases, and executing image processing on the input image based on at least a region the reliability level of which is greater than or equal to a threshold value.

Image reading apparatus for executing image processing based on a reliability level according to a number of conveyance mechanisms clamping a medium

An image processing apparatus includes a processor for generating a front-surface image captured of a front surface of a conveyed document and a back-surface image captured of a back surface of the conveyed document, detecting a feature of the conveyed document, determining whether a first end of the front-surface image and a second end of the back-surface image corresponding to the first end are continuous, based on the generated front-surface image and back-surface image and the detected feature, and synthesizing the front-surface image and the back-surface image when it has been determined that the first end and the second end are continuous.

Image processing apparatus for synthesizing a front-surface image and a back-surface image

An image processing apparatus includes an edge pixel extractor for extracting an edge pixel from an input image, an end pixel extractor for extracting an end pixel in the input image, an edge pixel addition module for adding the end pixel extracted by the end pixel extractor as an edge pixel based on a pixel value of a pixel located within a first range from the end pixel, a straight line extractor for extracting straight lines from the edge pixel extracted by the edge pixel extractor and the end pixel added as an edge pixel by the edge pixel addition module, and a rectangle region detector for detecting a rectangle region from the extracted straight lines.

Image processing apparatus, rectangle region detection method, and computer-readable, non-transitory medium

According to the present disclosure, an image-processing apparatus acquires horizontal black hat image data by taking a difference between source image data and horizontal closing image data obtained by performing closing processing on each pixel row of the source image data, acquires vertical black hat image data by taking a difference between the source image data and vertical closing image data obtained by performing the closing processing on each pixel column of the source image data, and acquires logical conjunction image data where a logical conjunction of the horizontal black hat image data and the vertical black hat image data is taken.

Image-processing apparatus, image-processing method, and computer program product

According to the present disclosure, edges of a document image contained in a read image read by an image-reading apparatus including a paper path are detected, a candidate edge-skew occurrence position is detected, a candidate content-skew occurrence position is detected, an accumulated-skew occurrence position is detected based on the candidate edge-skew occurrence position and the candidate content-skew occurrence position, skew of a document rear-part image rearward from the accumulated-skew occurrence position in the conveyance direction is corrected, and image data corrected for accumulated skew is acquired.

Image-processing apparatus, method, and computer program product for correcting skew in scanned images

According to the present embodiment, an image-reading apparatus determines any one or both of the type of document and the shape of a document, selects any one or both of an appropriate document tilt detection method and an appropriate document position detection method according to any one or both of the determined type of document and the determined shape of a document, and detects any one or both of the tilt of the document and the position of the document by the selected detection method.

Growing community of inventors

Kahoku, Japan

Tomoaki Wada