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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2009
Applicant:
Ryuichi Okumura, Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Ryuichi Okumura, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing method has the steps of: scanning respective pages in a document; generating respective pieces of image data corresponding to the pages; identifying respective orientations of isolated images contained by each of the pages according to a result of character recognition for the image data; determining whether or not the isolated images contained by the page have different orientations; assigning respective ones of the isolated images to new pages; and setting respective orientations of the isolated images in the new pages as respective upright orientations of the isolated images.