# US 9,438,766 B2 · Information processing apparatus, information processing method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,438,766 B2 - Document ID: US9438766B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/899,547 - Filed: 2015-06-19 - Published: 2016-07-14 - Granted: 2016-09-06 - Earliest claimed: 2014-07-28 - Assignees: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. - Applicants: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. - Inventors: Norie Fujimoto - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9438766B2 ## CPC - H04N 1/00251: {with an apparatus for taking photographic images, e.g. a camera} - G06T 11/60: Creating or editing images; Combining images with text - G06V 40/16: Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions - G06V 40/20: Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition (recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16) - H04N 1/00801: {according to characteristics of the original} - H04N 1/00809: {Orientation} - H04N 1/2137: {with temporary storage before final recording, e.g. in a frame buffer} - H04N 1/3876: {Recombination of partial images to recreate the original image} - H04N 1/442: {using a biometric data reading device} - H04N 2201/0065: Converting image data to a format usable by the connected apparatus or vice versa - H04N 2201/0094: Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception - H04N 2201/0098: User intervention not otherwise provided for, e.g. placing documents, responding to an alarm - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING ## Abstract An information processing apparatus (1) includes a photographing portion (8), an authentication processing portion (91), and a layout processing portion (92). The authentication processing portion (91) determines, based on a photographed image obtained from the photographing portion (8), whether a face image of a person is included in the photographed image, and upon determining that a face image of a person is included, performs an authentication process of the person based on the face image of the person. The layout processing portion (92), when the authentication processing portion (91) has successfully authenticated the person, determines whether a layout specification image specifying a page layout is included in the photographed image, and upon determining that a layout specification image is included in the photographed image, creates a composite image by laying out one or more material images in accordance with the page layout specified by the layout specification image. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An information processing apparatus comprising: a photographing portion; an authentication processing portion configured to determine, based on a photographed image obtained from the photographing portion, whether or not a face image of a person is included in the photographed image, and upon determining that a face image of a person is included in the photographed image, perform an authentication process of the person based on the face image of the person; and a layout processing portion configured to, when the authentication processing portion has successfully authenticated the person, determine whether or not a layout specification image specifying a page layout is included in the photographed image, and upon determining that a layout specification image is included in the photographed image, create a composite image by laying out one or more material images in accordance with the page layout specified by the layout specification image. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the layout specification image is an image of a layout document sheet, the image of the layout document sheet including one or more layout frames and image specification information, the layout frames constituting the page layout, the image specification information specifying the material images to be laid out in correspondence with the layout frames. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 further comprising: an image reading portion configured to read an image from a document sheet, wherein the material images are read images that are images read by the image reading portion, the image specification information being numbers indicating an order in which the read images are read by the image reading portion, and the numbers indicating the order in which the read images are read are respectively written in the layout frames, and the layout processing portion lays out the read images in accordance with the numbers, based on relative positions of layout frames with respect to the layout document sheet. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the layout processing portion detects orientations of the numbers written in the layout frames, and lay out the material images in correspondence with the detected orientations. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 further comprising: an image storage portion storing the material images together with identification information thereof, wherein the image specification information is the identification information of the material images stored in the image storage portion, and the layout processing portion detects the material images that are associated with the identification information written in the layout frames, based on relationship between the identification information and the material images stored in the image storage portion, and lays out the detected material images based on the relative positions of the layout frames with respect to the layout document sheet. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the layout processing portion detects a real size of the layout document sheet based on: a distance from the photographing portion to the layout document sheet; and at least one of a size of the image of the layout document sheet included in the photographed image, and a ratio of a size of a person in the photographed image to a size of the layout document sheet in the photographed image, and determines a size of the composite image based on the detected real size of the layout document sheet. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the layout specification image is an image of a person who is making a predetermined gesture, the information processing apparatus further comprising: a layout storage portion storing correspondence relationship between types of gestures and types of page layouts, wherein the layout processing portion detects a page layout that corresponds to a gesture made by the person included in the photographed image, based on the correspondence relationship between types of gestures and types of page layouts stored in the layout storage portion, and lays out the material images in accordance with the detected page layout. ### Claim 8 An information processing method comprising: a first step of determining, based on a photographed image obtained from a photographing portion, whether or not a face image of a person is included in the photographed image, and upon determining that a face image of a person is included in the photographed image, performing an authentication process of the person based on the face image of the person; and a second step of, when the first step has successfully authenticated the person, determining whether or not a layout specification image specifying a page layout is included in the photographed image, and upon determining that a layout specification image is included in the photographed image, creating a composite image by laying out one or more material images in accordance with the page layout specified by the layout specification image.