Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kyocera Corporation

Xiaoyan Dai

Hidefumi Osawa

Yoshihiro Ishida

Taeko Yamazaki

Ichiro Umeda

Yuuichi Tsunematsu

Miho Ishigami

An information processing system includes an imaging unit that generates an image signal by imaging and an information processing device. The information processing device performs at least any one of plural kinds of image processing on a taken image corresponding to the image signal. The information processing device specifies an object corresponding to a partial image included in the taken image on the basis of a state of the object corresponding to the partial image included in the taken image or a degree of reliability given to a processing result of the performed image processing.

Information processing system, information processing device, and information processing method that performs at least any one of plural kinds of image processing on a taken image

An information processing apparatus includes an information recognition unit, an acquiring unit, and a recording unit. The information recognition unit recognizes a description written in each of one or more description areas. The acquiring unit acquires attribute information of the description area in which the description is written. The recording unit records the description written in the description area or a recognition result obtained through the recognition performed by the information recognition unit in accordance with the attribute information acquired by the acquiring unit.

Information processing apparatus, controlling method, and computer-readable storage medium

An image processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a boundary between a target area and a non-target area from an image; a setting unit configured to set an undefined area on the periphery of the boundary in a width based on feature quantities of peripheral pixels of the boundary; and a generating unit configured to define an area excluding the undefined area from the target area as the foreground area, define an area excluding the undefined area from the non-target area as the background area, and generate area information that specifies the foreground area, the background area, and the undefined area.

Image processing apparatus that identifies image area, and image processing method

There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A setting unit sets a parameter indicating a likelihood of being foreground or a likelihood of being background for each pixel of the input image. A selection unit selects a first cluster, wherein the first cluster has color information indicating a color similar to a color which is indicated by color information of any cluster out of the second group of clusters. An adjustment unit configured to adjust the parameter of each of pixels which belong to the selected first cluster. An estimation unit estimates a region corresponding to the foreground part using the parameters associated with respective pixels after adjustment of the parameters by the adjustment unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

For the problem of blurring at a boundary in a scanned illustration, a method of separating and vectorizing color regions accurately is realized by identification of a labeled region corresponding to the blurring and combining processing with another neighboring region. An image input unit, a color region dividing unit dividing an input image into the color regions, a labeling unit providing an individual label to the color region, a labeled region shape analysis unit obtaining labeled region shape information including information representing a shape feature of a labeled region which is the color region provided with the label, a micro-region determination unit determining whether the labeled region provided with the label is a micro-region or not according to the labeled region shape information, and a micro-region combining unit combining the region determined to be the micro-region with a neighboring region, are comprised.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for eliminating blurring of scanned image

A technique capable of more suitably extracting a foreground region from an image including the foreground region and a background region is provided. The image processing apparatus comprises: a reliability derivation unit configured to derive a reliability of a distance information of a pixel of interest based on a color information and the distance information of the pixel of interest and a neighbor pixel of the pixel of interest; a parameter derivation unit configured to derive a parameter concerning a type of a region for the pixel based on the color information and the distance information of the pixel and the obtained reliability of the distance information; and a determination unit configured to determine a foreground region in the image using the derived parameter for each pixel of the image.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Illumination information indicating the center of illumination and lightness change direction is acquired from an image, and the image is divided into regions for respective colors based on the acquired illumination information and color information of respective pixels included in the image. Especially, thresholds in clustering are set step by step in accordance with the lightness change direction from the center of the illumination information, and the image is clustered to the regions for respective colors according to the thresholds which are set step by step.

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

An image processing apparatus determines an attribute of a block image based on the attribute of the block image determined based on a color distribution characteristic amount of the block image and the attribute of the block image determined based on an edge characteristic amount of the block image.

Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for determining attributes

An image processing apparatus includes a block background/foreground determination unit which determines, based on a block attribute and quantized color information, whether each connected area is a foreground or a background, a block background/foreground attribute determination unit which determines, based on the block attribute, the attribute of a connected area determined to be the foreground of the block and the attribute of a connected area determined to be the background of the block, and a block background/foreground attribute information recording unit which records and holds information of the attribute of the block and the attribute of each connected area.

Image processing apparatus and control method

An image processing apparatus comprises an attribute determination unit that divides image data into a plurality of blocks each having a predetermined number of pixels and determines an attribute of each of the divided blocks that indicates whether or not the block includes a character; a connected area extraction unit that extracts a connected area in which pixels having the same pixel characteristic are connected sequentially, from each of the divided blocks; and a foreground/background determination unit that selects a foreground/background determination method to be used for a processing target block, based on the attribute of the processing target block, the attribute of a first adjacent block that is adjacent to the processing target block, and the extracted connected areas, and determines whether a connected area of the processing target block among the extracted connected areas is the foreground or the background, using the selected foreground/background determination method.

Method and apparatus for identifying character areas in a document image

An image processing apparatus determines the attribute of a pixel block, which is composed of a prescribed number of pixels extracted from image data, and the attribute of an area in which each pixel of the pixel block belongs. Then, based upon the determined attribute of the image block and the determined attribute of the area in which each pixel belongs, the apparatus subjects the image data to processing, pixel by pixel.

Image processing apparatus and method determines attributes of image blocks based on pixel edge intensities relative to normalized and fixed thresholds

An image processing apparatus includes a separation unit which determines the attribute of data contained in input document image data and separates the document image data into areas by attributes, an extraction unit which extracts, from the separated areas, an area of a graphics image as a target of vectorization processing, a determination unit which determines whether the attribute of the area of the graphics image is a clipart area or a line drawing area including a line drawing, and a vector conversion unit which performs vectorization processing corresponding to the attribute of the graphics image based on the determination result of the determination unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium with vectorization process for data from graphic areas

An image processing apparatus includes a color region segmentation unit configure to segment a processing object image into color regions, a linkage information acquisition unit configured to acquire information about linkage regions in each segmented color region, a determination unit configured to determine whether the processing object image is graphics based on the information acquired by the linkage information acquisition unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program

A region separation unit separates an inputted color document image into a plurality of types of regions such as a character region, a clip art region and a photo image region, and a clip art region extraction unit identifies the clip art region from among the separated regions. A clip art region dividing unit divides the clip art region based on the color features of the clip art region, and a clip art background identify unit identifies the background portion of the clip art region from among the divided regions. A filling unit for filling portions other than the background of a clip art fills a portion of the clip art other than the background with the background color, and a JPEG compression unit compresses the result obtained from the process for filling a clip art portion.

Image processing apparatus and image encoding method related to non-photo image regions

An image processing apparatus and method generate a vector expression by defining a direction and attribute of gradation of an image as a daub color of the vector expression for each divided contour line of a similar color region obtained from an input image, based on pixel values of plural sampling points inside each of the divided contour lines.

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