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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2016
Applicant:
Pfu Limited, Ishikawa, JP;
Inventor:
Akira Iwayama, Ishikawa, JP;
Assignee:
PFU LIMITED, Ishikawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/10 (2006.01); H04N 1/107 (2006.01); H04N 5/222 (2006.01); G06T 3/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00355 (2013.01); G06K 9/209 (2013.01); G06K 9/2081 (2013.01); G06K 9/4604 (2013.01); G06T 3/0031 (2013.01); H04N 1/00 (2013.01); H04N 1/00827 (2013.01); H04N 1/10 (2013.01); H04N 1/107 (2013.01); H04N 1/1078 (2013.01); H04N 5/222 (2013.01); H04N 5/144 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0434 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to the present disclosure, a page-turned bound medium is read continuously to acquire images, it is determined whether there is any image without the appearance of a foreign object out of the images corresponding to the same page, when it is determined that there is any image without the appearance of the foreign object, the image without the appearance of the foreign object is acquired as an output image, and when it is determined that there is not any image without the appearance of the foreign object, the images corresponding to the same page are combined to acquire the output image.