Image processing device with frame removal

• US 10,674,035 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2018
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Mizude, Kazuhiro, Ogawa, Kazuma
• Primary Examiner(s): Guillermety, Juan M
• Application Number:
  US16/178,593
• Publication Number:
  US 20190141213A1
• Time in Patent Office: 578 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/413 Classification of content, e.g. text, photographs or tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00816 Determining the reading area, e.g. eliminating reading of margins
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3873 defined only by a limited number of coordinate points or parameters, e.g. corners, centre; for trimming
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0098 User intervention not otherwise provided for, e.g. placing documents, responding to an alarm

Abstract

Included are: a platen on which documents to be read are placed; an image input unit configured to read in one or a plurality of documents placed on the platen at one time; a storage unit configured to store entire image data including individual images of the documents read in at one time; an outer frame region removing unit configured to remove, from the entire image data, image data of an outer frame region at a perimeter edge portion of the platen, having a predetermined width; and an individual image cropping unit configured to crop individual images of one or a plurality of documents, from the entire image data after the image data of the outer frame region has been removed.

Claims

1. An image processing device, comprising:

a platen on which documents to be read are placed;

a platen cover configured to cover documents placed on the platen;

an image input unit configured to read in one or a plurality of documents placed on the platen at one time;

a storage unit configured to store entire image data including individual images of the documents read in at one time;

a platen cover open/close detection unit configured to detect an open/close state of the platen cover;

a frame image adding unit configured to add, to an outer frame region of the entire image data at a perimeter edge portion of the platen having a predetermined width, a frame image of a predetermined color, in accordance with the detected open/close state of the platen cover; and

an individual image cropping unit configured to crop individual images of the one or the plurality of documents, from the entire image data after which the frame image has been added to the outer frame region,

wherein the frame image adding unit includes

a black-frame image adding unit configured to add, to the outer frame region of the entire image data stored in the storage unit, a black frame image made of image data of a black color, and

a white-frame image adding unit configured to add, to the outer frame region of the entire image data stored in the storage unit, a white frame image made of image data of a white color.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where the platen cover open/close detection unit detects that the platen cover is in an open state, the black-frame image adding unit adds the black frame image to the outer frame region of the entire image data,

and wherein, in a case where the platen cover open/close detection unit detects that the platen cover is in a closed state, the white-frame image adding unit adds the white frame image to the outer frame region of the entire image data.

3. The image processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit,

wherein, in a case where the individual image cropping unit is not able to crop an individual image of a document from entire image data after having added the frame image,

in a case where the platen cover is in a closed state, a display is made on the display unit to the effect to place the platen cover in an opened state and perform reading again, and

in a case where the platen cover is in an open state, a display is made on the display unit to the effect to place the platen cover in a closed state and perform reading again,

and wherein, in a case where changing of the open/close state of the platen cover is detected by the platen cover open/close detection unit, the image input unit reads in documents placed on the platen at one time.

4. The image processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a document edge detecting unit configured to detect outlines of individual images corresponding to the documents, from the entire image data after which the frame image has been added to the outer frame region in the entire image data stored in the storage unit,

wherein, in a case where the document edge detecting unit has been able to detect outlines of individual images corresponding to the documents, positions of individual images are identified from the outlines of the individual images that have been detected, and the individual image cropping unit crops the individual images regarding which positions have been identified.

5. An image processing method of an image processing device, the method comprising:

reading in one or a plurality of documents placed on a platen of the image processing device on which documents to be read are placed at one time;

storing entire image data including individual images of the documents read in at one time;

detecting an open/close state of a platen cover of the image processing device configured to cover documents placed on the platen when the documents are read in at one time;

adding, to an outer frame region of the entire image data after storing at a perimeter edge portion of the platen having a predetermined width, a frame image of a predetermined color, in accordance with the detected open/close state of the platen cover; and

cropping individual images of the one or the plurality of documents, from the entire image data after which the frame image has been added to the outer frame region,

wherein, when detecting the open/close state of the platen cover,

a black frame image is added to the outer frame region of the entire image data in a case of detecting the platen cover being in an open state, and

a white frame image is added to the outer frame region of the entire image data in a case of detecting the platen cover being in a closed state.