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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2015
Applicant:
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.;
Inventors:
Sota Nanbu, Osaka, JP;
Hiroyuki Harada, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01); H04N 1/411 (2006.01); H04N 1/64 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/405 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00376 (2013.01); G06K 9/00456 (2013.01); H04N 1/0036 (2013.01); H04N 1/405 (2013.01); H04N 1/40062 (2013.01); H04N 1/4115 (2013.01); H04N 1/6072 (2013.01); H04N 1/642 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an area extracting unit and a table image detecting unit. The area extracting unit is configured to extract halftone dot areas and character images in an image. The table image detecting unit is configured to detect the extracted halftone dot areas as a table image if (a) the extracted halftone dot areas include no ruled lines, (b) plural halftone dot areas among the extracted halftone dot areas are arrayed in a primary scanning direction and/or a secondary scanning direction, and (c) the arrayed plural halftone dot areas include the character images at at least two positions.