Image processing apparatus capable of synthesizing form image with aggregate image, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

• US 9,210,291 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2013
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ichikawa, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Demeter, Hilina K
• Application Number:
  US14/060,671
• Publication Number:
  US 20140111828A1
• Time in Patent Office: 776 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00278 with a printing apparatus, e.g. a laser beam printer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00456 for layout preview, e.g. page layout
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/387 Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3875 combined with enlarging or reducing enlarging or reducing per se H04N1/393
• 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 capable of synthesizing a form image with an aggregate image created by aggregating images on one page. A CPU determines whether an operator performed on a touch panel a first operation for changing an image with which the form image is to be synthesized from an image as an operation target to one of the images of the aggregate image or the whole aggregate image, or a second operation for rotating the form image synthesized with the operation target image. When the first operation is performed, the CPU synthesizes the form image with the changed image after scaling the form image to the size of the changed image. When the second operation is performed, the CPU synthesizes the form image with the operation target image after rotating the form image and scaling the same to the size of the operation target image.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a processor connected to a memory, the processor and memory being configured to;

acquire image data;

store a form image;

accept, from a user, form synthesis settings of printing a synthesized image created by synthesizing the image data and the form image;

accept, from a user, aggregate printing settings of printing an aggregate image of printing an aggregate image created by aggregating a plurality of image data on one page;

select, in a case where the form synthesis settings are accepted and the aggregate printing settings are accepted, one of a first layout in which the form image is synthesized with the whole aggregate image and a second layout in which the form image is synthesized with each of the plurality of image data; and

print according to the selected one of the first layout and the second layout.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, the processor and memory being further configured to:

display a preview image of the first layout in which the form image is synthesized with the whole aggregate image; and

accept, from a user, a touch operation of changing a layout of the form image for the preview image,

wherein any one of the first layout and the second layout is selected based on the accepted touch operation.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the touch operation includes a pinch-in operation, a pinch-out operation, and a rotation operation.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, the processor and memory being further configured to read an original, wherein the image data comprises an original image for the original.

5. A method of controlling an image processing apparatus, comprising:

acquiring image data;

storing a form;

accepting, from a user, form synthesis settings of printing a synthesized image created by synthesizing the image data and the form image;

accepting, from a user, aggregate printing settings of printing an aggregate image of printing an aggregate image created by aggregating a plurality of image data on one page;

select, in a case where the form synthesis settings are accepted and the aggregate printing settings are accepted, one of a first layout in which the form image is synthesized with the whole aggregate image and a second layout in which the form image is synthesized with each of the plurality of image data; and

printing according to the selected one of the first layout and the second layout.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable control program for causing a computer to execute a method of controlling an image processing apparatus,

wherein the method comprises:

acquiring image data;

storing a form;

accepting, from a user, form synthesis settings of printing a synthesized image created by synthesizing the image data and the form image;

accepting, from a user, aggregate printing settings of printing an aggregate image of printing an aggregate image created by aggregating a plurality of image data on one page;

select, in a case where the form synthesis settings are accepted and the aggregate printing settings are accepted, one of a first layout in which the form image is synthesized with the whole aggregate image and a second layout in which the form image is synthesized with each of the plurality of image data; and

printing according to the selected one of the first layout and the second layout.