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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Pfu Limited, Ishikawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
PFU LIMITED, Ishikawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/203 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00824 (2013.01); H04N 1/00809 (2013.01); H04N 1/203 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image-reading apparatus according to the present invention reads one or more documents to acquire a read image, detects edge coordinates of a document image closest to an outer edge of the read image in a plurality of certain directions, and regionally divides the read image in the certain directions based on any one or both of a region of the read image in which no edge coordinates are detected and the edge coordinates of an edge end of the detected document image.