Apparatus, program, medium for image-area separation, image processing and image forming
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsYasushi Abe, Masaaki Ishikawa, Takashi Saitoh
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Abstract
An image-area separation apparatus includes a SIMD processor performing a SIMD process for performing an image-area separation process and an image-area separation mechanism for performing an image-separation operation according to the SIMD process performed by the SIMD processor. The image-area separating apparatus performs an image-area separation operation to separate character images from figure images by means of software while the SIMD-typed processor achieves a high-speed image data processing.
Claims28
An image-area separation apparatus, comprising:
- a SIMD processor performing a SIMD process for performing an image-area separation process;
- and,
- image-area separation means for performing an image-separation operation according to the SIMD process performed by the SIMD processor.
An image-area separation apparatus which processes the read image of the original image data, comprising:
- a SIMD processor performing a SIMD process for performing an image-area separation process;
- and
- image-area separation means for performing an image-separation operation according to the SIMD process performed by the SIMD processor.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image reading apparatus to read an image of an original image data;
- an image-area separation apparatus which processes the read image of the original image data, said image-area separation apparatus, comprising:
- a SIMD processor performing a SIMD process for performing an image-area separation process;
- and
- image-area separation means for performing an image-separation operation according to the SIMD process performed by the SIMD processor;
- an image-processing means for switching over contents of the image data in accordance with the result of the image-separation operation performed by the image-separation apparatus;
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- image forming means for forming an image onto a recording sheet in accordance with the image data read by the image reading apparatus.
A computer-readable program for an image-area separation embodied on an information storage medium,
- said computer-readable program, comprising processing routines executed by a SIMD processor, comprising the step of:
- causing the SIMD processor to perform the image-area separation for image-separating the image data.
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which include the image-area separation, comprising:
- said computer-readable program, comprising processing routines executed by a SIMD processor, comprising the step of:
- causing the SIMD processor to perform the image-area separation for image-separating the image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.