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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hajime Kaji, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Shigeo Fukuoka, Machida, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 ; H04N 1/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 ; H04N 1/04 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus capable of performing image formation by automatically discriminating and correcting the direction of an original without sorting originals including both portrait and landscape ones. Image data is read, and the direction of the read image is discriminated. In accordance with the discrimination result, a synthesis image to be synthesized suited to the direction of the image is selected. The synthesis image is rotated, where necessary, so that the synthesis image points in the same direction as the read image, and the two images having the same direction are synthesized and output.