Image processing apparatus, and control method and program of the same

• US 7,738,732 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2006
• Issued: 06/15/2010
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Kassa; Yosef
• Application Number:
  US11/451,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20060290984A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,463 Days
• Field of Search: 382/182, 382/186, 382/187, 382/188, 382/284, 382/294
• US Class Current: 382/284
• 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. An image processing apparatus comprising:

printing means for printing an original sheet containing (1) a handwritten area in which a handwritten image is to be combined with a desired image and to be handwritten by a user, and (2) a code in which identification information identifying the desired image or additional information associated with the desired image is written;

reading means for reading said original sheet;

analyzing means for analyzing said code; and

combining means for combining data corresponding to the desired image and data corresponding to the handwritten image read by said reading means based on the result of analyzing said code by said analyzing means.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said original sheet further contains a reference image area in which the desired image is printed, and wherein said printing means prints said original sheet containing said reference image area, said handwritten area and said code.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said additional information is decorative pattern type selected by the user to add to the desired image.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said additional information is the parameters associated with image processing designated to the desired image by the user.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said additional information is trimming information about a partial region of the desired image to be cut out designated by the user.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the reference image is an image resulting from editing the desired image based on said additional information.

7. A control method for image processing apparatus, comprising:

a printing step of printing an original sheet containing (1) a handwritten area in which a handwritten image is to be combined with a desired image and to be handwritten by a user, and (2) a code in which identification information identifying the desired image or additional information associated with the desired image is written;

a reading step of reading said original sheet;

an analyzing step of analyzing said code; and

a combining step of combining data corresponding to the desired image and data corresponding to the handwritten image read in said reading step based on the result of analyzing said code in said analyzing step.

8. A program causing an image processing apparatus to execute:

a printing procedure of printing an original sheet containing a handwritten area in which (1) a handwritten area in which a handwritten image is to be combined with a desired image and to be handwritten by a user, and (2) a code in which identification information identifying the desired image or additional information associated with the desired image is written;

a reading procedure of reading said original sheet;

an analyzing procedure of analyzing said code; and

a combining procedure of combining data corresponding to the desired image and data corresponding to the handwritten image read in said reading procedure based on the result of analyzing said code in said analyzing procedure.

9. An original sheet containing:

a handwritten area in which a handwritten image to be combined with a desired image is handwritten by a user; and

a code in which identification information identifying the desired image or additional information associated with the desired image is written.

10. The original sheet according to claim 9, further containing a reference image area in which the desired image is printed.

11. The original sheet according to claim 10, wherein said reference image area and said handwritten area are almost the same in size, and said handwritten area is printed in close proximity to said reference image area.

12. The original sheet according to claim 9, wherein said additional information is decorative pattern type selected by the user to add to the desired image.

13. The original sheet according to claim 9, wherein said additional information is the parameters associated with or image processing designated to the desired image by the user.

14. The original sheet according to claim 9, wherein said additional information is trimming information about a partial region of the desired image to be cut out designated by the user.

15. The original sheet according to claim 10, wherein the reference image is an image resulting from editing the desired image based on said additional information.