Image processing apparatus, image processing method and non-transitory computer readable medium

• US 10,095,940 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2015
• Issued: 10/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Koborita, Ryoko, Fuse, Toru
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdul-Ali, Omar R
• Application Number:
  US14/745,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20160012302A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,208 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20104 Interactive definition of region of interest [ROI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20112 Image segmentation details
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/56 relating to colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/63 Scene text, e.g. street names
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/413 Classification of content, e.g. text, photographs or tables

Abstract

With regard to objects such as pictures, geometric figures, and symbols shown in the image to be processed by an image processing apparatus, in order to select an object that does not overlap in position with a user-indicated position, an image processing apparatus 100 acquires a user-indicated position in an image 200 in which an object 201 is shown, generates partition regions 209 that partition the target region of the image 200, on the basis of the position of the object 201, identifies a partition region 211 on the basis of a user-indicated position, and determines whether the object 201 has been selected, on the basis of the identified partition region 211.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a computer programmed to;

acquire significant pixel regions shown in an image in which at least one object and at least one marker are shown;

discriminate the significant pixel regions as one of the object'"'"'s region and the marker'"'"'s region in accordance with a predetermined criterion;

acquire indicated-position information on the basis of the marker in the image;

acquire reference position information including a position of the object in the image and a position of at least one of a plurality of vertices of a target region of the image, the target region being formed to be a multangular shape having the plurality of vertices;

partition the target region of the image on a basis of the reference position information to generate a plurality of partition regions;

identify at least one partition region on a basis of the plurality of partition regions and the indicated-position information; and

determine whether the object has been selected, on a basis of the identified partition region.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the computer is programmed to determine whether the object has been selected, on a basis of a position of the object or a region of the object.

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

the reference position information includes at least one position indicative of a boundary of the target region of the image, and

the computer is further programmed to determine whether the identified partition region is related to the object, and to determine the object to have not been selected when the identified partition region is a partition region that is partitioned on a basis of a position indicative of a boundary of the target region of the image, and is determined to be not related to the object.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the computer is further programmed to acquire positions of sites in the image on a basis of the reference position information, and to partition the target region of the image on a basis of Voronoi boundaries defined on a basis of the positions of the sites to generate the plurality of partition regions.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the computer is further programmed to partition the target region of the image on a basis of Delaunay boundaries defined on a basis of the positions of the sites and the Voronoi boundaries to generate the plurality of partition regions.

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

the indicated-position information includes information indicative of a user-indicated line segment or a user-indicated region, and

the computer is programmed to identify the at least one partition region on a basis of the information indicative of the user-indicated line segment or the user-indicated region.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the computer is further programmed to:

associate the indicated-position information with indicated-processing information indicative of user-indicated processing with respect to the object;

acquire the indicated-processing information that is associated with the indicated-position information used in the identifying of the identified partition region, and that is related to the identified partition region;

acquire the indicated-processing information that is associated with the identified partition region used in the determining of the object determined to have been selected, and that is related to the object; and

execute, for the object determined to have been selected, processing indicated by the indicated-processing information related to the object.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the computer comprises a memory that stores a reference image, and the computer is further programmed to perform pattern matching for the significant pixel regions against the reference image to discriminate the marker'"'"'s region from the object'"'"'s region.

8. An image processing method comprising:

acquiring, by a computer, significant pixel regions shown in an image in which at least one object and at least one marker are shown;

discriminating the significant pixel regions, by the computer, as one of the object'"'"'s region and the marker'"'"'s region in accordance with a predetermined criterion;

acquiring indicated-position information, by the computer, on the basis of the marker in the image;

acquiring reference position information, by the computer, including a position of the object in the image and a position of at least one of a plurality of vertices of a target region of the image, the target region being formed to be a multangular shape having the plurality of vertices;

partitioning the target region of the image, by the computer, on a basis of the reference position information to generate a plurality of partition regions;

identifying at least one partition region, by the computer, on a basis of the plurality of partition regions and the indicated-position information; and

determining, by the computer, whether the object has been selected, on a basis of the identified partition region.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to perform the following functions:

acquiring significant pixel regions shown in an image in which at least one object and at least one marker are shown;

discriminating the significant pixel regions as one of the object'"'"'s region and the marker'"'"'s region in accordance with a predetermined criterion;

acquiring indicated-position information on the basis of the marker in the image;

acquiring reference position information including a position of the object in the image and a position of at least one of a plurality of vertices of a target region of the image, the target region being formed to be a multangular shape having the plurality of vertices;

partitioning the target region of the image on a basis of the reference position information to generate a plurality of partition regions;

identifying at least one partition region on a basis of the plurality of partition regions and the indicated-position information; and

determining whether the object has been selected, on a basis of the identified partition region.