Image processing apparatus and image forming medium
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroyuki Sayuda
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Abstract
The present invention performs printing without collapsing the appearance of the hyper document and embeds information about links in the printed hyper document so that access to the link destinations can be gained. The image processing apparatus of the present invention has a plotting control unit that, when outputting document data onto a recording medium as a document image, the document data having image elements containing link destinations and containing appearance information for defining the plotting positions of the image elements, plots the image elements in the plotting positions defined by the appearance information and embeds at least part of coupling information for specifying related information of the image elements in the plotting positions of the image elements.
Claims11
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- an image data generation unit that generates an image data including an image element based on a document data, the document data including link information that indicates a location of related information related to the image element and appearance information that defines a position of the image element in the image data;
- an embedding data generation unit that receives identification information corresponding to the link information and is smaller than the link information in data size, and configured to generate a control data to embed the identification information by superimposing the image element based on the appearance information;
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- an embedded image formation unit that generates pixel data to be formed on a recording medium based on the image data and the control data, the pixel data including the identification information superimposed over the image element, wherein
- the image element excludes any one of the link information, the related information and the identification information.
An image processing method, comprising:
- generating an image data including an image element based on a document data, the document data including link information that indicates a location of related information related to the image element and appearance information that defines a position of the image element in the image data;
- receiving identification information corresponding to the link information that is smaller than the link information in data size;
- generating a control data to embed the identification information by superimposing over the image element based on the appearance information;
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- generating pixel data to be formed on a recording medium based on the image data and the control data, the pixel data including the identification information superimposed over the image element, wherein
- the image element excludes any one of the link information, the related information and the identification information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.