Image processing method and image processing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHisao Terajima
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Abstract
An image processing method includes printing out a layout mark-sensing sheet indicating a plurality of different sample image layout options that graphically indicate different layouts of an image to be printed on a recording medium that has a specific shape. The layout mark-sensing sheet allows a user to mark the layout mark-sensing sheet to designate a specific image layout option from among the plurality of different sample image layout options. The layout mark-sensing sheet marked by the user is read and the image is printed on the recording medium based on the specific image layout option marked by the user on the layout mark-sensing sheet.
Claims8
An image processing method comprising:
- printing out a layout mark-sensing sheet including a plurality of sample image layout options that graphically indicate different layouts of an image to be printed on a recording medium that has a specific shape, the layout mark-sensing sheet allowing a user to mark the layout mark-sensing sheet to designate a specific image layout option from among the plurality of different sample image layout options;
- reading the layout mark-sensing sheet marked by the user;
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- printing out the image on the recording medium based on the specific image layout marked by the user on the layout mark-sensing sheet.
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a recording unit configured to print out a layout mark-sensing sheet including a plurality of sample image layout options that graphically indicate different layouts of an image to be printed on a recording medium that has a specific shape, the layout mark-sensing sheet allowing a user to mark the layout mark-sensing sheet to designate a specific image layout option from among the plurality of different sample image layout options;
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- a reading unit configured to read the layout mark-sensing sheet marked by the user;
- wherein the recording unit is configured to print out the image on the recording medium based on the specific image layout option marked by the user on layout mark-sensing sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.