Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

• US 8,537,443 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2012
• Issued: 09/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2008
• 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: Morimoto, Atsuhisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Kimberly A
• Application Number:
  US13/649,010
• Publication Number:
  US 20130033731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 342 Days
• Field of Search: 358/448, 358/452, 358/474, 358/488, 358/505, 358/527, 358/531, 358/537, 358/1.18, 382/182, 345/649, 715/274
• US Class Current: 358/527
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00466 displaying finishing information, e.g. position of punch holes or staple or orientation references
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3877 Image rotation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0091 Digital copier; digital 'photocopier' H04N2201/0093 and H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a document correction section and a display control section. The document correction section carries out rotation processing with respect to a document image so that a first reference direction from a reference side of a document to a side facing the reference side coincides with an upper-to-lower direction of the document image which has been subjected to the rotation processing. Further, before the rotation processing is carried out, the display control section causes the display apparatus to display an image in which the document and a mark indicating the reference side of the document to a user are shown in accordance with the document image. This allows a user to easily predict how the document shown in the document image will be oriented after the document image is subjected to the rotation processing, before the user inputs a command to carry out the rotation processing.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a rotation processing section for carrying out rotation processing with respect to a document image, in which a document is shown, so that a first reference direction from a reference side of the document to a side facing the reference side coincides with a second reference direction of the document image which has been subjected to the rotation processing, the second reference direction being a direction from an upper part of the document image to an lower part of the document image;

a top-to-bottom direction determining section for determining a top-to-bottom direction from a top side of the document shown in the document image to a lower side of the document; and

a display control section for causing a display apparatus to display, before the rotation processing is carried out, a display image in which (i) the document and (ii) a mark indicating the reference side to a user are shown in accordance with the document image, in a case where the top-to-bottom direction and the second reference direction do not coincide with each other.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the reference side is the top side of the document, and the first reference direction is the top-to-bottom direction.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the mark and the document are shown in the display image such that (i) the mark and the document overlap each other, and (ii) the mark is in contact with the reference side.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the mark is a command button by use of which a command is entered; and

the rotation processing section carries out the rotation processing in response to a command entered by use of the command button.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

a combination of the document and the mark indicating the reference side of the document is shown in the display image at each settable rotation angle.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the display control section (i) carries out, with respect to a downsampled image obtained by downsampling the document image, a provisional rotation processing at a rotation angle identical with that of the rotation processing carried out by the rotation processing section, and (ii) causes the display apparatus to display, as the display image, an image in which (a) a document shown in the downsampled image which has been subjected to the provisional rotation processing and (b) a mark indicating a reference side of the document to a user are shown.

7. An image formation apparatus comprising:

an image processing apparatus recited in claim 1.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing a control program,

the control program causing a computer to function as each of the sections of an image processing apparatus recited in claim 1.

9. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a rotation processing section for carrying out, in response to a command entered by use of a command button, rotation processing with respect to a document image, in which a document is shown, so that a first reference direction from a reference side of the document to a side facing the reference side coincides with a second reference direction of the document image which has been subjected to the rotation processing; and

a display control section for causing a display apparatus to display, before the rotation processing is carried out, a display image in which (i) the document and (ii) a mark indicating the reference side to a user are shown in accordance with the document image, the mark serving as the command button by use of which the command is entered.