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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1997
Nobuaki Miyahara, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Takaoka, Yokohama, JP;
Keizo Isemura, Koganei, JP;
Shigeo Fukuoka, Machida, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The direction of the document in the original image read by an image reader unit (,) is discriminated by a document direction discrimination unit (,). Rotation processing and the like are performed for the original image in accordance with the discriminated direction. The resultant image is output onto a recording paper sheet. When a fault diagnosis unit (,) diagnoses the document direction discrimination unit (,) and determines that the unit is faulty, the image processing apparatus recognizes the direction of the document in the original image on the basis of information provided from the operator through an operation unit (,), and executes the above processing.