Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshinobu Aiba

Hideto Kohtani

Masanori Sakai

Takehito Utsunomiya

Kunio Yoshihara

Hiroshi Ohmura

Hirohiko Itoh

Keizo Isemura

Takahiro Ushiro

Makoto Kikugawa

Hiroshi Ozaki

Hiroyuki Ichikawa

Shizuo Hasegawa

Kouichi Unno

Masahiro Iwadate

Hideyuki Makitani

Hidenori Ozaki

Eiji Sakaguchi

There is disclosed an image communication apparatus comprising communication means for communicating the image information, recognition means for recognizing a predetermined image within the image information received via the communication means, and recording means for recording received image information on a recording medium with a plurality of colors, wherein the recording means makes the recording with a color in accordance with a recognition result of the recognition means.

Image communication apparatus and method selectively recording a color

An image retrieving apparatus having a reading unit for reading the image of an original, a comparing unit for comparing the image data of the original outputted from the reading unit with a plurality of image data stored in a storage medium, and a retrieving unit for outputting one of the image data generally coincident with the image data of the original from the storage medium, and the discrimination information for discriminating the image data generally coincident, in accordance with the comparison result by the comparing unit.

Image retrieving apparatus

An information processing system comprises a core, and a sub-unit (for example, a facsimile unit, a file unit, and a computer interface unit, a formater or an image memory) connected to the core, and the core and the sub-unit are connected by two types of buses, synchronous type and asynchronous type. Where the data transfer between the core and the sub-unit is to be effected through the asynchronous bus, the core may simultaneously transfer data to another sub-unit by using the synchronous bus. Where the data transfer between the core and the sub-unit is to be effected by the synchronous bus, the data may be parallelly transferred to a plurality of sub-units.

Information processing system

An image processing apparatus comprises an input unit to supply code data from a plurality of data output devices, a converter to convert the code data supplied by the input unit into the image data every dot, and a generating unit to generate the image data obtained by the converter to a recording device. When print requests from a plurality of data output devices are simultaneously received, the image based on the data from each of the data output devices is switched every predetermined unit and generated.

Image processing apparatus

An image recording apparatus comprising: a plurality of input devices for inputting image information; a selection device for selecting image information input by a plurality of the input devices; a recording device for recording image information selected by the selection device on a recording member; a setting device for setting the priority order of image information selected by the selection device; and a control device for causing the setting device to set the priority order when image information has been input from a plurality of the input devices.

Image recording apparatus with prioritization of input

Image processing apparatus for printing data received from a plurality

An image forming apparatus having functions of a scanner, a printer, and a facsimile includes a rectangular recording sheet, a first sheet cassette to enclose the recording sheet in a first direction, a second sheet cassette to enclose the recording sheet in a second direction different from the first direction by 90.degree., an input unit to input first and second image data in the first direction, a rotating unit to rotate the second image data from the input unit in the second direction, an image forming unit to form an image based on the first image data from the input unit or the second image data from the rotating unit onto the recording sheet fed from the first or second sheet cassette, and a feeder for feeding the recording sheet in the first sheet cassette to the image forming unit when the input unit inputs the first image data and for feeding the recording sheet in the second sheet cassette to the image forming unit when the input unit inputs the second image data.

Image processing apparatus for discriminating the input device and

An image processing method, and corresponding apparatus, includes the steps of discriminating the color type of an input color image from an input color image signal, generating a pattern signal indicating a predetermined graphic pattern corresponding to the color type in response to the color discrimination, generating a density signal in accord with the input color image signal, and supplying a reproduction signal in accord with the pattern signal and the density signal to an image reproduction unit.

Image processing method and apparatus for outputting a pattern image in

Image communication apparatus and method that paints a color

An image processing apparatus has an input device such as a scanner for inputting an original image, and a mode setting device for setting an editorial processing mode such as trimming, enlargement or size reduction to be executed on the input image. The apparatus further has a processing device for performing, in accordance with the editorial processing mode set by the mode setting device, the editorial processing on the image input by the input device. The apparatus further has a storage control device for storing, in a storage medium such as a disk, the image after the editorial processing performed by the processing device, together with reproduction data which corresponds to the executed editorial processing mode. The reproduction data is used for reproducing the original input image from the image after the editorial processing.

Image processing apparatus for storing image data in storage medium

An image processing apparatus includes an input unit for inputting image information, a setting unit for setting a mode associated with a resolution, a detection unit for detecting a specific image in the image information input from the input unit, a processing unit for converting the specific image in the image information detected by the detection unit into a pattern image having a predetermined resolution, and an output unit for outputting image information from the processing unit. The processing unit changes the resolution of the pattern image according to the mode set by the setting unit.

Image processing including identification of a specific image and

An image communicating apparatus comprises: a reader as an image input unit for inputting code data such as character code or the like; a converter for converting the input code data into image data; a transmitting circuit for transmitting the code data supplied from the reader or the image data converted by the converter; and a controller for judging the function of an apparatus of the communication partner side and a line state or a communicating condition, thereby selecting either one of a mode to transmit the code data and a mode to transmit the image data converted by the converter in accordance with the results of the judgment. When the code data is transmitted in an error retransmitting mode and error data remains due to a defective line state or communicating condition, the controller selects the mode to transmit the image data converted by the converter.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yoshinobu Aiba