Image processing method and image processing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHisao Terajima
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Abstract
An image processing method includes printing out a layout mark-sensing sheet indicating a plurality of different sample image layout options that graphically indicate different layouts of an image to be printed on a recording medium that has a specific shape. The layout mark-sensing sheet allows a user to mark the layout mark-sensing sheet to designate a specific image layout option from among the plurality of different sample image layout options. The layout mark-sensing sheet marked by the user is read and the image is printed on the recording medium based on the specific image layout option marked by the user on the layout mark-sensing sheet.
Claims13
An image processing method comprising:
- deciding, in an image to be printed on a printing area of a predetermined shape which has been determined as a shape of a print target, a plurality of printing areas of the predetermined shape in a plurality of patterns using the predetermined shape of a predetermined print medium commonly for the plurality of patterns;
- generating a plurality of sample images for indicating the plurality of decided printing areas corresponding to the plurality of patterns for which the predetermined shape of the predetermined print medium is used commonly;
- causing a printing apparatus to print a designation sheet including the generated sample images, the designation sheet allowing a user to designate a sample image from the plurality of sample images;
- determining a sample image designated by a user in the designation sheet, based on a read image obtained by reading, by a reading apparatus, of the designation sheet;
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- causing a printing apparatus to print the printing area, corresponding to the determined sample image, in the image on a print medium of the predetermined shape.
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a deciding unit configured to decide, in an image to be printed on a printing area of a predetermined shape which has been determined as a shape of a print target, a plurality of printing areas of the predetermined shape in a plurality of patterns by using the predetermined shape of a predetermined print medium commonly for the plurality of patterns;
- a generating unit configured to generate a plurality of sample images indicating the plurality of printing areas, corresponding to the plurality of patterns for which the predetermined shape of the predetermined shape print medium is used commonly, decided by the deciding unit in the image;
- a first print control unit configured to cause a printing apparatus to print a designation sheet including a plurality of sample images generated by the generating unit, the designation sheet allowing a user to designate a sample image from the plurality of sample images;
- a determining unit configured to determine a sample image designated by a user in the designation sheet, based on a read image obtained by reading, by a reading apparatus, of the designation sheet printed by the first print control unit;
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- a second print control unit configured to cause a printing apparatus to print the printing area, corresponding to the sample image determined by the determining unit, in the image on a print medium of the predetermined shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.