Image processing apparatus and its method
First Claim
1. An image processing apparatus for receiving an image and executing a job for the image, comprising:
- a segmenting section, arranged to segment the input image into image regions having different attributes;
a first detector, arranged to detect a corresponding image from a first memory by search for an image of each of the segmented image regions, and to acquire, when the corresponding image is detected, an object ID of the detected image;
a storing section, arranged to store the image of the image region, the corresponding image of which is not detected, in the first memory by adding a unique object ID to the image;
a generator, arranged to generate schema information which includes location information of the image regions and the object IDs of the images of the image regions, and indicates a layout of the input image; and
a registering section, arranged to register history information including at least the schema information in a second memory.
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Abstract
When a history including printed information, a date, a user, and the like is stored, a search for stored information is allowed, and the history can be referred to if information has leaked, a large-capacity storage device is required to store all images in the storage device. Hence, user authorization is made. If user authorization has succeeded, image data is acquired, and is segmented into regions of respective attributes by block selection. Next, objects of respective segments are converted into vector data. It is searched if an object that matches each of the objects is stored in an image storage server. If a matching object is detected, an object ID added to that object is acquired. If no matching object is detected, an object ID of the object of interest is generated, and vector data added with the object ID is registered in the image storage server.
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11 Claims
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1. An image processing apparatus for receiving an image and executing a job for the image, comprising:
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a segmenting section, arranged to segment the input image into image regions having different attributes;
a first detector, arranged to detect a corresponding image from a first memory by search for an image of each of the segmented image regions, and to acquire, when the corresponding image is detected, an object ID of the detected image;
a storing section, arranged to store the image of the image region, the corresponding image of which is not detected, in the first memory by adding a unique object ID to the image;
a generator, arranged to generate schema information which includes location information of the image regions and the object IDs of the images of the image regions, and indicates a layout of the input image; and
a registering section, arranged to register history information including at least the schema information in a second memory. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An image processing method of an image processing apparatus which receives an image and executes a job for the image, the method comprising steps of:
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segmenting the input image into image regions having different attributes;
detecting a corresponding image from a memory by search for an image of each of the image regions, and acquiring, when the corresponding image is detected, an object ID of the detected image;
storing the image of the image region, the corresponding image of which is not detected, in the memory by adding a unique object ID to the image;
generating schema information which includes location information of the image regions and the object IDs of the images of the image regions, and indicates a layout of the input image; and
registering history information including at least the schema information in the memory.
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8. A computer program for an image processing method of an image processing apparatus which receives an image and executes a job for the image, the method comprising steps of:
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segmenting the input image into image regions having different attributes;
detecting a corresponding image from a memory by search for an image of each of the image regions, and acquiring, when the corresponding image is detected, an object ID of the detected image;
storing the image of the image region, the corresponding image of which is not detected, in the memory by adding a unique object ID to the image;
generating schema information which includes location information of the image regions and the object IDs of the images of the image regions, and indicates a layout of the input image; and
registering history information including at least the schema information in the memory.
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9. A computer program product stored on a computer readable medium comprising program code for executing an image processing method of an image processing apparatus which receives an image and executes a job for the image, the method comprising steps of:
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segmenting the input image into image regions having different attributes;
detecting a corresponding image from a memory by search for an image of each of the image regions, and acquiring, when the corresponding image is detected, an object ID of the detected image;
storing the image of the image region, the corresponding image of which is not detected, in the memory by adding a unique object ID to the image;
generating schema information which includes location information of the image regions and the object IDs of the images of the image regions, and indicates a layout of the input image; and
registering history information including at least the schema information in the memory.
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10. An image processing apparatus for receiving an image and executing a job for the image, comprising:
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a segmenting section, arranged to segment the input image into image regions having different attributes;
a first detector, arranged to detect an image of the segmented image region from a first memory by search;
a storing section, arranged to store no image of the image region, which is found by said first detector, in the first memory, and to store the image of the image region, which is not found by said first detector, in the first memory by adding a unique object ID to the image;
a generator, arranged to generate specifying information which includes location information of the image, which is stored in the first memory, in the input image, and ID information of the stored image; and
a registering section, arranged to register the specifying information in a second memory. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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Specification