US 8,077,977 B2Granted

Image processing system, image processing method, computer readable medium and computer data signal

AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

InventorsAtsushi Itoh, Yuzuru Suzuki, Hiroyuki Kawano, Kunikazu Ueno, Natsumi Miyazawa, Koichi Fujii, Shunsuke Kodaira

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Abstract

An image processing system includes an area extracting unit, an area relation extracting unit, a relation analyzing unit and an image display unit. The area extracting unit extracts areas from an input image. The area relation extracting unit extracts a relation between the areas extracted by the area extracting unit. The relation analyzing unit analyzes the relation between the areas extracted by the area relation extracting unit. The image display unit displays the image in accordance with an analysis result by the relation analyzing unit.

Claims7

Dependent claims

An image processing system comprising:

an image input unit that inputs an image;
an area extracting unit that extracts areas from the image input by the image input unit;
an area relation extracting unit that extracts a relation between the areas extracted by the area extracting unit;
a storing unit that stores the relation between the areas extracted by the area relation extracting unit and the image input by the image input unit in association with each other;
a relation analyzing unit that analyzes the relation between the areas stored by the storing unit;
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an image display unit that displays the associated area stored in the storing unit in accordance with an analysis result by the relation analyzing unit on an image screen, wherein
the image display unit displays an explanation in characters, the explanation (i) is generated based on the analysis result and (ii) relating to another of the areas that is not displayed on an image screen and that is adjacent to the displayed area in the input image.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/798,741Filed 16 May 2007
Priority: JP 2006-22137215 Aug 2006
Published: US 2008/0044086 A121 Feb 2008
Granted: 13 Dec 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06V 30/40
Character recognition; Recognising digital ink; Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition: document-oriented image-based pattern recognition
G06V 30/1444
Image acquisition: selective acquisition, locating or processing of specific regions, e.g. highlighted text, fiducial marks or predetermined fields
G06V 30/10
Character recognition; Recognising digital ink; Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition: character recognition
G06V
Image and video recognition