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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2013
Image processing apparatus and image processing method including location information identification
Applicant:
Akiyoshi Nakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Akiyoshi Nakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/02 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01); H04N 1/46 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/1878 (2013.01); H04N 1/40062 (2013.01); H04N 1/465 (2013.01); H04N 1/6072 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an image-area separator that separates a character area from monochrome document data scanned by a scanner, a character pixel detecting unit that counts the number of pixels of a character in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction included in a controller, a bolded character identifying unit that identifies a character as a bolded character in case the count result is larger than a predefined threshold value, and a color converter that converts the bolded character into color data.