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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHisao Terajima
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In an image processing apparatus, the image data to be recorded/output by an image recording means is specified by information stated on a mark sheet that is read from an image reading means. The image data to be printed/output is analyzed, the number of people in the photographic object in the image data is detected, and a thumbnail image of the image is printed together with a mark sheet having mark areas in which the number of prints of the image can be specified in correspondence to the number of people in the photographic object obtained by detecting the number of faces from the image data or by another method. The mark sheet is read by an image reading means, and an image of the number of prints corresponding to the number of people in the photographic object is printed.
An image processing method whereby, in an image processing apparatus having an image reading means and an image recording means, image data that is to be printed/output by said image recording means is specified based on information stated on a mark sheet read by said image reading means, comprising:
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