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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Minako Kato, Kawasaki, JP;
Tetsuya Suwa, Yokohama, JP;
Takashi Nakamura, Yokohama, JP;
Yugo Mochizuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Masao Kato, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/10 (2006.01); H04N 1/193 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6202 (2013.01); G06K 9/00442 (2013.01); G06K 9/3233 (2013.01); H04N 1/00816 (2013.01); H04N 1/1013 (2013.01); H04N 1/193 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0081 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0091 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides an apparatus for processing image data obtained by reading a document and a background image outside the document, and method of controlling the apparatus. The apparatus determines a degree of similarity between a color of the background image and a color of a marginal region of the document from the image data, sets a region extraction parameter based on the determined degree of similarity, and determines a document region by using the region extraction parameter from the image data.