Image processing apparatus, and control method and program of the same

• US 8,041,149 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2009
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Maeda, Masao
• Primary Examiner(s): Kassa; Yosef
• Application Number:
  US12/634,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20100259796A1
• Time in Patent Office: 678 Days
• Field of Search: 382/282, 382/284, 382/291, 382/294, 358/537, 358/540
• US Class Current: 382/284
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3871 the composed originals being of different kinds, e.g. low- and high-resolution originals

Abstract

It is intended to provide an image composition apparatus, a control method and program of an image processing apparatus which, when a user wants to combine a photo image and a handwritten image, even if the image processing apparatus is used for other purposes or even if the power of the image processing apparatus is turned off while the user is creating the handwritten image, enables the user to subsequently resume the image composition work.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a print control unit configured to cause a printing apparatus to print an original sheet containing a code which indicates an image which has been selected by a user and is stored in a memory;

an acquiring unit configured to acquire an image of the original sheet which is read by a reading apparatus;

an analyzing unit configured to analyze the code included in the image of the original sheet acquired by the acquiring unit; and

a combining unit configured to combine the selected image specified from the memory by the code analyzed by the analyzing unit and an image included in the image of the original sheet acquired by the acquiring unit.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the code further includes additional information associated with the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the additional information is a decorative pattern type selected by a user to add to the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the additional information is parameters associated with image processing designated to the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the additional information is trimming information indicating a region to be trimmed of the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the original sheet further contains a reference image area in which the image having been selected by the user is printed.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the code further includes additional information associated with the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory, and wherein the reference image is an image resulting from editing the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory by the user based on the additional information.

8. A image processing method comprising:

causing a printing apparatus to print an original sheet containing a code which indicates an image which has been selected by a user and is stored in a memory;

acquiring an image of the original sheet which is read by a reading apparatus;

analyzing the code included in the acquired image of the original sheet; and

combining the selected image specified from the memory by the analyzed code and an image included in the acquired image of the original sheet.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program for causing an image processing apparatus to execute an image processing method, the image processing method comprising:

causing a printing apparatus to print an original sheet containing a code which indicates an image which has been selected by a user and is stored in a memory;

acquiring an image of the original sheet which is read by a reading apparatus;

analyzing the code included in the acquired image of the original sheet; and

combining the selected image specified from the memory by the analyzed code and an image included in the acquired image of the original sheet.

10. An original sheet containing:

an area in which an image is to be written by a user, to be combined with an image which has been selected by a user and is stored in a memory; and

a code which indicates the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory.

11. The original sheet according to claim 10, wherein the code further includes additional information associated with the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory.

12. The original sheet according to claim 11, wherein the additional information is a decorative pattern type selected by a user to add to the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory.

13. The original sheet according to claim 11, wherein the additional information is parameters associated with image processing designated to the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory.

14. The original sheet according to claim 11, wherein the additional information is trimming information indicating a region to be trimmed of the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory.

15. The original sheet according to claim 10, wherein the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory is printed as a reference image.

16. The original sheet according to claim 15, wherein the code identifies additional information associated with the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory, and the reference image is an image resulting from editing the image which has been selected by the user and is stored in the memory, based on the additional information.