US 7,002,709 B1Granted

Image processing system, image processing method, and image input system

AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

InventorsYoshihiro Terada, Kenji Ebitani, Kazuman Taniuchi, Hiroyoshi Uejo, Junichi Shimizu

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Abstract

The reproduction of a copy inhibit image and the abuse of data through a network are to be prevented without sacrificing various page editing functions. An image read unit scans an original placed on an original carrying table and thereby generates RGB color image signals of multi-value. An image processing unit performs various image processing and, upon detection of a copy inhibit original, performs image working for preventing faithful reproduction of the copy inhibit original. An image storing unit temporarily stores page by page original images provided from the image processing unit. If a copy inhibit image is contained in the original images, the image working is performed by the image processing unit to prevent faithful reproduction and the images after the image working are stored in the image storing unit. An image output unit performs a printing operation in accordance with image data outputted from the image processing unit.

Claims5

Dependent claims

An image processing system comprising:

an image data generating part that scans an original image and generates image data corresponding to the original image;
a discriminating part that, using the image data generated by the image data generating part, discriminates whether a predetermined inhibit image is present in the original image or not;
a working part that, if it is judged by the discriminating part that the inhibit image is present in the original image, works on the image data to render an image distinctly different from the original image and then outputs the image data thus obtained, and that, if it is judged by the discriminating part that the inhibit image is not present in the original image, outputs the image data as it is generated by the image data generating part;
a storing part that stores page by page the image data outputted from the working part;
an output form inputting part that inputs an output form of the image data corresponding to each page of the original;
a control part that, in accordance with the output form inputted by the output form inputting part, controls in what order the image data stored in the storing part is to be read out;
and
an image rotating part that, in accordance with the output form inputted by the output form inputting part, generates image data by rotating the image data stored in the storing part.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/437,216Filed 10 Nov 1999
Priority: JP 10-3476377 Dec 1998
Granted: 21 Feb 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04N 1/00846
Based on recognising a copy prohibited original, e.g. a banknote: based on detection of a dedicated indication, e.g. marks or the like
H04N 1/00864
Preventive measures: modifying the reproduction, e.g. outputting a modified copy of a scanned original
H04N 1/00872
Modifying the reproduction, e.g. outputting a modified copy of a scanned original: by image quality reduction, e.g. distortion or blacking out
H04N 1/32464
For changing the arrangement of the stored data: changing the arrangement of pages or documents, e.g. for producing pages to be bound