Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and computer readable medium

• US 10,356,276 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2016
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Tetsuharu, Enomoto, Naoyuki, Kashima, Yozo, Ishikawa, Tomohisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Hu, Fred H
• Application Number:
  US15/375,950
• Publication Number:
  US 20170094112A1
• Time in Patent Office: 946 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/7515 Shifting the patterns to accommodate for positional errors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00005 relating to image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00015 Reproducing apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00039 Analysis, i.e. separating and studying components of a greater whole
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/38 Circuits or arrangements for blanking or otherwise eliminating unwanted parts of pictures H04N1/387 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/393 Enlarging or reducing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit, an acquisition unit, an enlarging/reducing unit, and a detector. The reception unit receives two image data to be compared. The acquisition unit acquires character sizes of characters contained in the two image data received by the reception unit. The enlarging/reducing unit enlarges or reduces the image data received by the reception unit such that the character sizes of the characters contained in the two image data acquired by the acquisition unit coincide with each other. The detector detects a difference between the two image data which have been enlarged or reduced by the enlarging/reducing unit such that the character sizes of the characters contained in the two image data coincide with each other.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

at least one hardware processor configured to implement;

a reception unit configured to receive two image data to be compared, each of the two image data representing an image;

an acquisition unit configured to acquire character sizes of characters contained in each of the two image data received by the reception unit;

an enlarging/reducing unit configured to enlarge or reduce the entire image of at least one of the two image data received by the reception unit such that the character sizes of the characters contained in each of the two image data acquired by the acquisition unit coincide with each other; and

a detector configured to detect a difference between the two image data at least one of which has been enlarged or reduced by the enlarging/reducing unit such that the character sizes of the characters contained in each of the two image data coincide with each other.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to implement:

a changing unit configured to change the paper sizes for the two image data so as to coincide with each other by adding a margin or removing a margin, in a case where paper sizes for the two image data containing the characters, of which the character sizes acquired by the acquisition unit have been caused to coincide with each other by the enlarging/reducing unit, are different from each other.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit is configured to acquire a character size of a largest character, or a character size of a smallest character, for the characters contained in the two image data.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit is configured to acquire a character size of a character corresponding to a character code designated in advance, for the characters contained in the two image data.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit is configured to acquire a character size of a character corresponding to a character code that appears most frequently, or a character size that is used most frequently, for the characters contained in the two image data.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to implement:

a position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a dimension value contained in the two image data,

wherein the acquisition unit is configured to acquire a character size of the dimension value at the position acquired by the position acquisition unit.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to implement:

a generation unit configured to generate a difference image that indicates the difference between the two image data detected by the detector.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the character sizes of the characters contained in each of the two image data acquired by the acquisition unit coincide with each other such that the character sizes of the characters contained in each of the two image data are equal.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the difference is a portion of the entire image that is separated from the characters.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the entire image is enlarged or reduced in response to determining that a largest character size in the entire image is different than a largest character size in another entire image of another of the two image data.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

receiving two image data to be compared, each of the two image data representing an image;

acquiring character sizes of characters contained in each of the received two image data;

enlarging or reducing the entire image of at least one of the two received image data such that the character sizes of the characters contained in each of the acquired two image data coincide with each other; and

detecting a difference between the two image data at least one of which has been enlarged or reduced such that the character sizes of the characters contained in each of the two image data coincide with each other.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 11, wherein the character sizes of the characters contained in each of the acquired two image data coincide with each other such that the character sizes of the characters contained in each of the acquired two image data are equal.