Image processing apparatus, method and computer readable medium for reading and obtaining a combined image of a document having a size larger than a readable document size
AssigneePfu Limited
InventorsYasuhito Nagakoshi, Kiyoto Kosaka, Yuichi Okumura
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a control unit and an output unit. The control unit includes an image output unit that arranges an image read by reading processing in an area shifted in a certain direction in a display area in which read image on which reading processing is performed by an image reading apparatus is displayed, and outputs the image to the output unit.
Claims9
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- a control unit and an output device, wherein
- the control unit includes
- a mark detecting unit that, when a document on which reading processing is performed is read by an image reading apparatus along with an identification mark, detects the identification mark from an image of the document read;
- a position detecting unit that, when the identification mark is detected by the mark detecting unit, determines which portion of the document is read from the image of the document;
- and
- a notification output unit that outputs notification information indicating a read position to be read next time to the output device on the basis of which portion of the document is read as determined by the position detecting unit, wherein
- the identification mark is inserted at a top edge of the document along a document fold line, outside the document area and
- the identification marks is identified based on color and/or pattern.
An image processing method performed in a control unit of an image processing apparatus, the apparatus including the control unit and an output device, the method comprising:
- a mark detecting step of, when a document on which reading processing is performed is read by an image reading apparatus along with an identification mark, detecting the identification mark from an image of the document;
- a position detecting step of, when the identification mark is detected at the mark detecting step, determining which portion of the document is read from the image of the document;
- and
- a notification output step of outputting notification information indicating a read position to be read next time to the output device on the basis of which portion of the document is read as determined at the determining step or the position detecting step, wherein
- the identification mark is inserted at a top edge of the document along a document fold line, outside the document area and
- the identification marks is identified based on color and/or pattern.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium including programmed instructions for image processing, the instructions, when executed by a control unit of an image processing apparatus, the apparatus including the control unit and an output device, causing the control unit to perform:
- a mark detecting step of, when a document on which reading processing is performed is read by an image reading apparatus along with an identification mark, detecting the identification mark from an image of the document read;
- a position detecting step of, when the identification mark is detected at the mark detecting step, determining which portion of the document is read from the image of the document;
- and
- a notification output step of outputting notification information indicating a read position to be read next time to the output device on the basis of which portion of the document is read as determined at the determining step or the position detecting step, wherein
- the identification mark is inserted at a top edge of the document along a document fold line, outside the document area and
- the identification marks is identified based on color and/or pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.