Image processing apparatus and image processing method

• US 8,780,374 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2011
• Issued: 07/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Hamada, Noboru
• Primary Examiner(s): Grant, II, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US13/198,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20110286030A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,075 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.14, 358/471, 358/448, 358/426.06, 358/474, 382/100
• 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 comprising:

an obtaining unit configured to obtain a document image including a code image by scanning a document including the code image;

an extracting unit configured to extract information in the code image by decoding the code image;

a receiving unit configured to receive user information;

a determining unit configured to determine if the received user information is first user information or second user information;

a displaying unit configured to display choices in a case that the received user information is determined to be the first user information, and configured to display choices in a case that the received user information is determined to be the second user information,

wherein the choices displayed in the case that the received user information is first user information include a first choice for outputting an image other than the code image in the document image without outputting the code image and a second choice for outputting the extracted information in the code image without outputting the image other than the code image in the document image, and the choices displayed in the case that the received user information is second user information include the first choice, but does not include the second choice; and

an output unit configured to output the document image or the extracted information according to a selection by a user of a choice from among the choices displayed in the case that the received user information is first user information or the choices displayed in the case that the received user information is second user information.

2. The image processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the code image is one of a bar code and a watermark.

3. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an obtaining unit configured to obtain a document image including a code image by scanning a document including the code image;

an extracting unit configured to extract information in the code image by decoding the code image;

a receiving unit configured to receive user information; and

a displaying unit configured to display choices in a case that the received user information is first user information, and configured to display choices in a case that the received user information is second user information,

wherein the choices displayed in the case that the received user information is first user information include a first choice for outputting an image other than the code image in the document image without outputting the code image and a second choice for outputting the extracted information in the code image without outputting the image other than the code image in the document image, and the choices displayed in the case that the received user information is second user information include the first choice, but does not include the second choice.

4. The image processing apparatus of claim 3, wherein the code image is one of a bar code and a watermark.

5. An image processing method comprising:

obtaining a document image including a code image by scanning a document including the code image and extracting information in the code image by decoding the code image;

receiving user information; and

displaying choices in a case that the received user information is first user information, and choices in a case that the received user information is second user information,

wherein the choices displayed in the case that the received user information is first user information include a first choice for outputting an image other than the code image in the document image without outputting the code image and a second choice for outputting the extracted information in the code image without outputting the image other than the code image in the document image, and the choices displayed in the case that the received user information is second user information include the first choice, but does not include the second choice.

6. The image processing method of claim 5, wherein the code image is one of a bar code and a watermark.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform an image processing method, the method comprising:

obtaining a document image including a code image by scanning a document including the code image and extracting information in the code image by decoding the code image;

receiving user information; and

displaying choices in a case that the received user information is first user information, and choices in a case that the received user information is second user information,

wherein the choices displayed in the case that the received user information is first user information include a first choice for outputting an image other than the code image in the document image without outputting the code image and a second choice for outputting the extracted information in the code image without outputting the image other than the code image in the document image, and the choices displayed in the case that the received user information is second user information include the first choice, but does not include the second choice.