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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2019
Applicant:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Inventor:
Takeshi Okamoto, Sakai, JP;
Assignee:
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00782 (2013.01); H04N 1/00331 (2013.01); H04N 1/00663 (2013.01); H04N 1/00737 (2013.01); H04N 1/00766 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a document reader that scans a document and outputs an image of the document, a process selector that selects a process to be executed on the image depending on a document scanning region scanned in the document reader, and a controller that performs control to execute the process selected by the process selector on the image.