Image processing, copying, and printing apparatus having a part of a processing unit and a part of another unit formed as one inseparable unit
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYutaka Udagawa, Masahiro Funada, Ken-ich Ohta, Yoichi Takaragi, Toshiyuki Kitamura, Eiji Ohta
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus having a function for detecting a specific original decides the degree of similarity between the image represented by input image signals and the image of a specific original which is not to be allowed to be copied, e.g., currency. The image processing apparatus determines the content of the image processing in accordance with the result of the decision, and processes the input image signals on the basis of the determined content.
Claims17
An image processing apparatus for performing an image processing on input image signals, comprising:
- a plurality of color processing means for sequentially performing a plurality of color image processing processes on the input image signals;
- deciding means for deciding whether an image represented by the input image signals represents an image of a specific original;
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- control means for controlling the performance of the plurality of color image processing processes by said plurality of color processing means in accordance with a result of the decision by said deciding means,
- wherein a part of said plurality of color processing means and a part of said deciding means are formed as one physically inseparable unit.
An image processing apparatus for performing an image processing on input image signals, comprising:
- a plurality of color processing means for sequentially performing a plurality of color image processing processes on the input image signals;
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- adding means for adding a predetermined pattern to an image represented by the input image signals color-processed by said plurality of color processing means,
- wherein a part of said plurality of color processing means and a part of said adding means are formed as one physically inseparable unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.