IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20110286030A1
• Filed: 08/05/2011
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: HAMADA, Noboru
• Granted Patent: US 8,780,374 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3269 of machine readable codes or marks, e.g. bar codes or glyphs

Abstract

An object is to provide a user with various options on a processing method of an original document including a code image. To accomplish the object, the image processing apparatus includes a decoding section for extracting information by decoding the code image contained in the original document image, and a decision section for making a decision according to selection of the user as to whether to output the original document image or the information extracted by the decoding section.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus having a first judging unit configured to judge whether a user instructs output of an original image or information extracted from a code image of an original image (S2007,S2020,S2021), comprising:

an extracting unit configured to extract information from a code image of an original image (S2002);

a second judging unit configured to judge, according to the extracted information, whether the extracted information is accessible (S2006); and

an outputting unit configured to output the original image in a case where the first judging unit has judged that a user instructs output of an original image (S2008),

configured to output the extracted information in a case where the first judging unit has judged that a user instructs output of information extracted from a code image of an original image and the second judging unit has judged that the extracted information is accessible (S2020),

configured not to output the extracted information in a case where the first judging unit has judged that a user instructs output of information extracted from a code image of an original image and the second judging unit has judged that the extracted information is not accessible (S2006).

2. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an extracting unit configured to extract information from a code image of an original image (S2002);

a judging unit configured to judge, according to the extracted information, whether the extracted information is accessible (S2006); and

an outputting unit configured to output the extracted information in a case where the judging unit has judged that the extracted information is accessible (S2009).

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2 further comprising:

an image processing unit configured to perform an image processing to the original image to obtain a processed image (S2002);

wherein the outputted original image by the outputting unit is the processed image.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the outputting unit outputs the original image to a hard disk drive.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the outputting unit outputs the extracted information to a hard disk drive.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2 is a computer.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the original image is a scanned image.