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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2023
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kenta Inoue, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 30/418 (2022.01); G06V 30/412 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 30/418 (2022.01); G06V 30/412 (2022.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus obtains scanned images by scanning forms of a plurality of types; manages page counts associated with feature information of previous scanned images of respective form types; analyzes each of the scanned images to determine, based on the feature information, whether the analyzed scanned image is similar to any of the previous scanned images; and divides the scanned images based on a scanned image to determined to be similar to any of the previous scanned images and the page count associated with the any of the previous scanned images.