Image printing method and system
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsJunji Tomohiro, Haruhiko Mochizuki
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Abstract
There is provided an image printing method including obtaining an image, reducing a color area of the obtained image and generating a color area reduced image, extracting a contour from the obtained image and generating an outline image, generating a first image by overlapping the outline image with the color area reduced image, printing the first image on a recording medium, scanning an image containing an object recorded by a user on the recording medium on which the first image is printed, generating a second image by extracting the object recorded by the user based on the scanned image, and printing the second image on a recording medium.
Claims8
An image printing method, comprising:
- obtaining an image;
- reducing a color area of the obtained image and generating a color area reduced image;
- extracting a contour from the obtained image and generating an outline image;
- generating a first image by overlapping the outline image with the color area reduced image;
- printing the first image on a recording medium;
- scanning an image containing an object recorded by a user on the recording medium on which the first image is printed;
- generating a second image by extracting the object recorded by the user based on the scanned image;
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- printing the second image on a recording medium.
An image printing method, comprising:
- obtaining an image;
- reducing a color area of the obtained image and generating a color area reduced image;
- extracting a contour from the obtained image and generating an outline image;
- generating a first image by overlapping the outline image with the color area reduced image;
- printing the first image on a recording medium;
- scanning an image containing an object recorded by a user on the recording medium on which the first image is printed;
- generating a second image by extracting the object recorded by the user based on the scanned image;
- storing image data expressing the second image;
- and
- printing the second image on a recording medium.
An image forming system, comprising:
- an image obtaining portion for obtaining an image;
- a color area reduced image generating portion for generating a color area reduced image from the obtained image;
- an outline image generating portion for generating an outline image by extracting a contour form the obtained image;
- a first image generating portion for generating a first image by overlapping the outline image with the color area reduced image;
- a first image printing portion for printing the first image on a recording medium;
- a scanning portion for scanning an image containing an object written by a user on the recording medium on which the first image is printed;
- a second image generating portion for generating a second image by extracting the object recorded by the user based on the scanned image scanned by the scanning portion;
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- a second printing portion for forming the second image on a recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.