Image processing apparatus and a method therefor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAkihiro Matsuya
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus by which in performing a setting as to a registration of application data to a database, a type of an object to be registered to the database can be selected. For example, if a photograph mode is selected, among vectorized data, a photographic object is registered to the database, and objects of the other attribute are defined as NULL and are registered to the database with respect to positional information thereof. Further, a registration period can be set for each attribute.
Claims15
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a print instruction unit configured to instruct printing of application data;
- a registration setting unit configured to register as to whether the application data is registered to a database;
- an attribute selection unit configured to select an attribute of data to be registered to the database when a registration is set by said registration setting unit, the attribute including a type of data;
- a conversion unit configured to convert the application data, which have the attribute selected by said attribute selection unit, into data to be registered of another data format;
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- a registration unit configured to register the data converted by said conversion unit into the database when the registration is set by the registration setting unit.
An image processing method of an image processing apparatus having a print instruction unit configured to instruct printing of application data, the method comprising:
- setting whether the application data is registered to a database;
- selecting an attribute of data to be registered to the database when a registration is set, the attribute including a type of data;
- converting the application data, which have the attribute selected, into data to be registered of another data format;
- and
- registering the converted data into the database when the registration is set.
A computer-executable program for controlling an image processing apparatus, the computer-executable program comprising:
- computer-executable instructions for setting whether application data is registered to a database;
- computer-executable instructions for selecting an attribute of data to be registered to the database when a registration is set, the attribute including a type of data;
- computer-executable instructions for converting the application data, which have the attribute selected, into data to be registered of another data format;
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- computer-executable instructions for registering the data converted into the database when the registration is set.
An image processing apparatus for processing image data, the apparatus comprising:
- an attribute selection unit configured to select an attribute to be registered to a database based on user's instruction, the attribute including a type of data;
- a conversion unit configured to convert an area of the image data into object data to be registered, wherein the area of the image data have the attribute selected by said attribute selection unit;
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- an output unit configured to output the object data converted by said conversion unit to the database for the registration.
An image processing method for processing image data comprising:
- selecting an attribute to be registered to a database based on user's instruction, the attribute including a type of data;
- converting an area of the image data into object data to be registered, wherein the area of the image data have the attribute selected;
- and
- outputting the object data converted by the conversion unit to the database for the registration.
A computer-readable recording medium containing computer-executable instructions for executing:
- an attribute selection step for selecting an attribute to be registered to a database based on user's instruction, the attribute including a type of data;
- a conversion step for converting an area of image data into object data to be registered, wherein the area of the image data have the attribute selected in said attribute selection step;
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- an output step for outputting the object data converted by said conversion unit to the database for the registration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.