Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and method for image processing

• US 9,779,317 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2015
• Issued: 10/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Igarashi, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Madelein
• Application Number:
  US14/707,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20150332492A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/987 with the intervention of an operator
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00005 relating to image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00013 Reading apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00076 locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00968 by scanning marks on a sheet mark-sheet input means H04N1/00355; sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• 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 system includes a reading unit, a checking unit, a display control unit, and an image correcting unit. The reading unit reads image information from an original manuscript to generate image data. The checking unit checks whether or not a plurality of items listed in the original manuscript include an unentered item with the result of a character recognition process for recognizing a character contained in the image data. When the unentered item is present, the display control unit performs control to display information for informing a user of the unentered item. The image correcting unit adds a text with respect to the unentered item according to an input made by a user to correct the image data.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

image processing circuitry that includes at least a scanner and a printer, and

operation interface circuitry that provides an interface to control the scanner and the printer, wherein

the image processing circuitry includes a first processor executing a first operating system, and a communication interface,

the operation interface circuitry includes a second processor executing a second operating system, and an application that is executed under the second operation system, wherein the operation interface circuitry operates independently of the image processing circuitry, and

the second processor is configured to

display, by executing the application, a selection screen from which a questionnaire form registered in a server is selected,

receive the questionnaire form that is selected using the selection screen from the server via the communication interface of the image processing circuitry,

cause the printer to print out a questionnaire sheet of the questionnaire form,

cause the scanner to read the questionnaire sheet in which a user has written an answer by hand,

check if the read answered questionnaire sheet includes a non-answered item based on a result of an optical character recognition process performed on the read answered questionnaire sheet, and

control to display, when the read answered questionnaire sheet includes the non-answered item, information for informing the user of the non-answered item.

2. The image processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the scanner is configured to read image information from the answered questionnaire sheet.

3. The image processing apparatus of claim 2, wherein the operation interface circuitry further includes a questionnaire result data memory that stores the image information as questionnaire result data, and

the second processor is further configured to compile entries for each of the items across pieces of the questionnaire result data.

4. The image processing apparatus of claim 3, wherein the second processor performs control to display a compiled result produced by the second processor.

5. An image processing method executed by a second processor included in operation interface circuitry of an image processing apparatus, the second processor executing a second operating system and an application, the image processing apparatus including image processing circuitry that includes at least a scanner and a printer, and the operation interface circuitry, which provides an interface to control the scanner and the printer, wherein the image processing circuitry includes a first processor executing a first operating system, and a communication interface, wherein the operation interface circuitry operates independently of the image processing circuitry, the method comprising:

displaying, by executing the application, a selection screen from which a questionnaire form registered in a server is selected,

receiving the questionnaire form that is selected using the selection screen from the server via the communication interface of the image processing circuitry,

causing the printer to print out a questionnaire sheet of the questionnaire form,

causing the scanner to read the questionnaire sheet in which a user has written an answer by hand,

checking if the read answered questionnaire sheet includes a non-answered item based on a result of an OCR process performed on the read answered questionnaire sheet, and

controlling to display, when the read answered questionnaire sheet includes the non-answered item, information for informing the user of the non-answered item.