Image processing apparatus for rotating an input image

• US 6,369,915 B1
• Filed: 02/22/1996
• Issued: 04/09/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Takehiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Kimberly A.
• Application Number:
  US08/603,889
• Time in Patent Office: 2,238 Days
• Field of Search: 358/450, 358/452, 358/440, 358/442, 358/453, 358/296, 382/295, 382/296, 382/297, 382/298, 382/301
• US Class Current: 358/450
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3877 Image rotation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3207 of an address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3209 of a telephone number
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3216 of a job size, e.g. a number of images, pages or copies, size of file, length of message

Abstract

A facsimile system includes a transmitting facsimile apparatus including a reading unit for reading an original image, a determination unit for determining the direction of a character in the image read by the reading unit, a rotating unit for rotating the image in accordance with the determination result of the determination unit so that the image read by the reading unit is set in the upward direction, an adding unit for adding a character in the upward direction to a header portion of the image rotated by the rotating unit, and a transmission unit for transmitting the image rotated by the rotating unit to a receiving facsimile apparatus and a receiving facsimile apparatus including a reception unit for receiving the image from the transmitting facsimile apparatus, an adding unit for adding a character in the upward direction to a footer portion of the image received by the reception unit, and a recording unit for recording the image to which the character is added by the adding unit.

Claims

1. A facsimile apparatus comprising:

reading means for reading an original image to form a read image;

determination means for determining a direction of a read character in the read image;

rotating means for rotating the read image in accordance with a determination result of said determination means so that a direction of the read image is same as a direction of another character to be subsequently added on one surface of an output medium;

adding means for adding the another character to a predetermined position of the read image rotated by said rotating means, wherein the added another character represents transmission source information; and

transmission means for transmitting to a predetermined destination via a communication line the read image to which the another character is added by said adding means.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said adding means adds the character to a header portion of each page.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said adding means adds characters representing a transmission source and a date.

4. A facsimile method comprising the steps of:

reading an original image to form a read image;

determining a direction of a read character in the read image;

rotating the read image in accordance with a determination result in the determining step so that a direction of the read image is same as a direction of another character to be subsequently added on one surface of an output medium;

adding the another character to a predetermined position of the read image rotated in the rotating step, wherein the added another character represents transmissions source information; and

transmitting to a predetermined destination via a communication line the read image to which the another character is added in the adding step.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein the adding step includes the step of adding the character to a header portion of each page.

6. A method according to claim 4, wherein the adding step includes the step of adding characters representing a transmission source and a date.