IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM OF THE SAME

• US 20100259796A1
• Filed: 12/09/2009
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Maeda, Masao
• Granted Patent: US 8,041,149 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/3.280
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3871 the composed originals being of different kinds, e.g. low- and high-resolution originals

Abstract

It is intended to provide an image composition apparatus, a control method and program of an image processing apparatus which, when a user wants to combine a photo image and a handwritten image, even if the image processing apparatus is used for other purposes or even if the power of the image processing apparatus is turned off while the user is creating the handwritten image, enables the user to subsequently resume the image composition work.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a print control unit configured to cause a printing apparatus to print an original sheet containing a code which indicates an image selected from a memory by a user;

an acquiring unit configured to acquire an image of the original sheet which is read by a reading apparatus;

an analyzing unit configured to analyze the code included in the image of the original sheet acquired by the acquiring unit; and

a combining unit configured to combine the selected image specified from the memory by the code analyzed by the analyzing unit and an image included in the image of the original sheet acquired by the acquiring unit.

23. A image processing method comprising:

causing a printing apparatus to print an original sheet containing a code which indicates an image selected from a memory by a user;

acquiring an image of the original sheet which is read by a reading apparatus;

analyzing the code included in the acquired image of the original sheet; and

combining the selected image specified from the memory by the analyzed code and an image included in the acquired image of the original sheet.

24. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program for causing an image processing apparatus to execute an image processing method, the image processing method comprising:

causing a printing apparatus to print an original sheet containing a code which indicates an image selected from a memory by a user;

acquiring an image of the original sheet which is read by a reading apparatus;

analyzing the code included in the acquired image of the original sheet; and

combining the selected image specified from the memory by the analyzed code and an image included in the acquired image of the original sheet.

25. An original sheet containing:

an area in which an image to be combined with an image selected from a memory by a user is to be written by a user; and

a code which indicates the image selected from the memory by a user.