Image reading device and method, reading area display device and method, and program

• US 9,843,694 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2017
• Issued: 12/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Mishima, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Rogers, Scott A
• Application Number:
  US15/462,486
• Publication Number:
  US 20170195519A1
• Time in Patent Office: 270 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00013 Reading apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00023 Colour systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00039 Analysis, i.e. separating and studying components of a greater whole
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00076 locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00082 Adjusting or controlling interrupting an operation H04N1/00915; inhibiting an operation H04N1/00925
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00801 according to characteristics of the original
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00809 Orientation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00811 according to user specified instructions, e.g. user selection of reading mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00816 Determining the reading area, e.g. eliminating reading of margins
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00824 for displaying or indicating, e.g. a condition or state details of displaying or indicating means H04N1/00405
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/387 Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3873 defined only by a limited number of coordinate points or parameters, e.g. corners, centre; for trimming
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/393 Enlarging or reducing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/46 Colour picture communication systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/60 Colour correction or control H04N1/54 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/6047 wherein the test pattern is part of an arbitrary user image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence

Abstract

In a preferred aspect of the present invention, manuscript image data is analyzed, and a feature amount to be used for specifying a positional relationship between the manuscript image data and read image data of a printed material read by a reading unit that performs reading of the printed material on which an image is printed on the basis of the manuscript image data, is detected. At least one or more areas including the feature amount in the manuscript image data is set as a reading area. A setting position of the printed material with respect to the reading unit is displayed on the basis of a result of the setting of the reading area. Reading of the printed material set in the reading unit is performed after the setting position is displayed by a display unit.

Claims

1. An image reading device, comprising:

a reading unit that, via an imaging device, performs reading of a printed material on which an image is printed on the basis of manuscript image data;

an image acquisition unit that, via a processor, acquires the manuscript image data from an outside of the image reading device;

an image analysis unit that, via the processor, analyzes the manuscript image data and detects a feature amount to be used for specifying a positional relationship between the manuscript image data and read image data of the printed material read by the reading unit;

a reading area setting unit that, via the processor, sets a reading area in which the reading unit performs reading of the printed material, on the basis of the feature amount detected by the image analysis unit, and sets at least one or more areas including the feature amount in the manuscript image data as the reading area; and

a display unit that, via a display, displays a setting position of the printed material with respect to the reading unit on the basis of a result of the setting of the reading area by the reading area setting unit,

wherein the reading unit performs reading of the printed material set in the reading unit after the setting position is displayed by the display unit.

2. The image reading device according to claim 1,

wherein the reading unit performs reading of the printed material that is larger than a reading range in which the reading unit is capable of reading the printed material.

3. The image reading device according to claim 1,

wherein the display unit displays the setting position to be overlapped on a reduced image generated on the basis of the manuscript image data.

4. The image reading device according to claim 1,

wherein the display unit selects and displays an area corresponding to the reading area in an image based on the manuscript image data.

5. The image reading device according to claim 1,

wherein the image analysis unit analyzes edge image data generated on the basis of the manuscript image data, and detects a feature shape of the image to be used for specifying the positional relationship as the feature amount from the edge image data.

6. The image reading device according to claim 5,

wherein the image analysis unit detects a straight edge as the feature shape.

7. The image reading device according to claim 1,

wherein the reading area setting unit sets a plurality of candidate areas that are candidates of the reading area in the manuscript image data, and sets an area including at least the feature amount detected by the image analysis unit among the plurality of the candidate area, as the reading area.

8. The image reading device according to claim 7,

wherein the reading area setting unit sets an area including the most feature amount detected by the image analysis unit among the plurality of candidate areas as the reading area.

9. The image reading device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a registration unit that, via the processor, performs a registration process of specifying a positional relationship between the read image data read by the reading unit and the manuscript image data after reading of the printed material in the reading unit; and

a color extraction unit that, via the processor, acquires color information from a corresponding image position of the read image data and the manuscript image data and obtains a correspondence relationship between color information of the read image data and color information of the manuscript image data.

10. The image reading device according to claim 1, wherein the reading area is separate from the manuscript data.

11. The image reading device according to claim 1, wherein the reading area is only on the printed material.

12. An image reading method of performing reading of a printed material using a reading unit that performs reading of a printed material on which an image is printed on the basis of manuscript image data, the image reading method comprising:

analyzing the manuscript image data and detecting a feature amount to be used for specifying a positional relationship between the manuscript image data and read image data of the printed material read by the reading unit;

acquiring the manuscript image data from an outside of the image reading device;

setting a reading area in which the reading unit performs reading of the printed material, on the basis of the feature amount detected in the image analysis step, and setting at least one or more areas including the feature amount in the manuscript image data as the reading area;

displaying a setting position of the printed material with respect to the reading unit on the basis of a result of the setting of the reading area in the setting; and

performing reading of the printed material set in the reading unit after the setting position is displayed in the displaying.

13. A reading area display device that displays a reading area of a printed material when reading of the printed material is performed by a reading unit that, via an imaging device, performs reading of a printed material on which an image is printed on the basis of manuscript image data, the reading area display device comprising:

an image acquisition unit that, via a processor, acquires the manuscript image data from an outside of the image reading device;

an image analysis unit that, via the processor, analyzes the manuscript image data and detects a feature amount to be used for specifying a positional relationship between the manuscript image data and read image data of the printed material read by the reading unit;

a reading area setting unit that, via the processor, sets a reading area in which the reading unit performs reading of the printed material, on the basis of the feature amount detected by the image analysis unit, and sets at least one or more areas including the feature amount in the manuscript image data as the reading area; and

a display unit that, via a display, displays a setting position of the printed material with respect to the reading unit on the basis of a result of the setting of the reading area by the reading area setting unit.

14. A reading area display method of displaying a reading area of a printed material when reading of the printed material is performed by a reading unit that performs reading of a printed material on which an image is printed on the basis of manuscript image data, the reading area display method comprising:

acquiring the manuscript image data from an outside of the image reading device;

analyzing the manuscript image data and detecting a feature amount to be used for specifying a positional relationship between the manuscript image data and read image data of the printed material read by the reading unit;

setting a reading area in which the reading unit performs reading of the printed material, on the basis of the feature amount detected in the image analysis step, and setting at least one or more areas including the feature amount in the manuscript image data as the reading area; and

setting position of the printed material with respect to the reading unit on the basis of a result of the setting of the reading area in the setting.

15. A computer-readable tangible medium having a program for causing a computer to function for displaying a reading area of a printed material when reading of the printed material is performed by a reading unit that performs reading of the printed material on which an image is printed on the basis of manuscript image data, the program causing the computer to function as:

an image acquisition unit that acquires the manuscript image data from an outside of an image reading device;

an image analysis unit that analyzes the manuscript image data and detects a feature amount to be used for specifying a positional relationship between the manuscript image data and read image data of the printed material read by the reading unit;

a reading area setting unit that sets a reading area in which the reading unit performs reading of the printed material, on the basis of the feature amount detected by the image analysis unit, and sets at least one or more areas including the feature amount in the manuscript image data as the reading area; and

a display unit that displays a setting position of the printed material with respect to the reading unit on the basis of a result of the setting of the reading area by the reading area setting unit.