Color-image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKen-Ichi Ohta
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Abstract
Conventionally, a color-image processing apparatus, such as a computer, or the like, cannot determine whether or not color-image data stored in an image storage device, such as a hard disk, or the like, is an image corresponding to a specific original. According to the present invention, a color-image processing apparatus includes a determination unit for comparing color-image data stored in an image storage device with a pattern stored in a pattern storage device. The color-image data stored in the image storage device is read with a predetermined timing, and determination by the determination unit is performed. The color-image processing apparatus is a computer, and the image storage device is a hard disk.
Claims22
A color image processing apparatus comprising an operating system, means for obtaining color image data stored in image storage means and an image pattern of a specific document stored in pattern storage means, and determination means for checking the color image data with the image pattern,
- wherein said means for obtaining, the image storage means, the pattern storage means and said determination means are controlled by said operating system and said operating system periodically causes said determination means to perform the determination on the color image data stored in the image storage means, and
- wherein the image storage means stores color image data in accordance with a plurality of images, and said determination means records information indicative of termination of determination in determined color image data after checking the color image data.
A color image processing apparatus comprising means for obtaining color image data stored in image storage means and an image pattern of a specific document stored in pattern storage means, and determination means for checking the color image data with the image pattern,
- wherein said determination means performs the determination when said color image processing apparatus is started, and
- wherein the image storage means stores color image data in accordance with a plurality of images, and said determination means records information indicative of termination of determination in determined color image data after checking the color image data.
A color image processing method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining color image data stored in image storage means and an image pattern of a specific document stored in pattern storage means;
- and
- causing determination means to check the color image data with the image pattern,
- wherein the image storage means, the pattern storage means and the determination means are controlled by an operating system and the operating system periodically performs said causing step to effect checking of the color image data stored in the image storage means, and wherein the image storage means stores color image data in accordance with a plurality of images, and said causing step further includes causing the determination means to record information indicative of termination of determination in determined color image data after checking the color image data.
A color image processing method for use in a color image processing apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining color image data stored in image storage means and an image pattern of a specific document stored in pattern storage means;
- and
- causing determination means to check the color image data with the image pattern,
- wherein the determination by the determination process is performed when the image processing apparatus is started, and
- wherein the image storage means stores color image data in accordance with a plurality of images, and said causing step further includes causing the determination means to record information indicative of termination of determination in determined color image data after checking the color image data.
A storage medium readable by a computer and storing, in executable form, a code for a determination process for checking color image data stored in image storage means of a color image processing apparatus and image pattern of a specific document stored in pattern storage means,
- wherein the determination of the determining process is performed when the color image processing apparatus storing the color image data is started, and
- wherein the image storage means stores color image data in accordance with a plurality of images, and the determination process includes recording information indicative of termination of determination in determined color image data after checking the color image data.
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