# US 9,519,829 B2 · Image processing system, information processing apparatus, and recordable medium > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,519,829 B2 - Document ID: US9519829B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/541,308 - Filed: 2014-11-14 - Published: 2015-05-28 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2013-11-28 - Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Applicants: Yoshihiko Sakawaki - Inventors: Yoshihiko Sakawaki - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9519829B2 ## CPC - H04N 1/3248: {Storage of at least a part of one of two image bearing sides of a single sheet, e.g. for two sided copying} - G06V 30/418: Document matching, e.g. of document images - H04N 1/00801: {according to characteristics of the original} - H04N 1/00816: {Determining the reading area, e.g. eliminating reading of margins} - H04N 2201/0094: Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception - H04N 2201/3247: Data linking a set of images to one another, e.g. sequence, burst or continuous capture mode - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING ## Abstract An image processing system comprises a generating unit that reads documents and generates a read image including document images; an extracting unit that extracts each of the document images; a character recognizing unit that performs character recognition processing on each the document images; a determining unit that determines whether first information and second information have a pair relationship, the first information being any one of recognition results obtained on one side of the document images, and the second information being any one of recognition results obtained on the other side of the document images; and a registering unit that registers pieces of information for the recognition results corresponding to the one side and to the other side respectively including the first information and the second information which are determined that both pieces of information have the pair relationship, as information for a piece of the documents, in a storage unit. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An image processing system, comprising: a storage; a scanner configured to read a first side of each of a plurality of cards and a second side of each of the plurality of cards after the plurality of cards are turned over so that positions of the plurality of cards when the second side faces up substantially coincide with positions of the plurality of cards when the first side faces up; and generate a first scanned image including first card images of the first side of each of the plurality of cards and a second scanned image including second card images of the second side of each of the plurality of cards; and a processor configured to extract each of the first and second card images included in the first scanned image and the second scanned image; determine determination results that indicate whether the first card images and the second card images have a pair relationship based on relative positions of the first card images when the first side of each of the cards are read and the second card images when the second side of each of the cards are read; and register, for card images in which the determination results indicate that the first card images have a pair relationship with the second card images, the card images in the storage as information for the cards. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor determines whether a first card image of a first card and a second card image of the first card have a pair relationship based on a relative position when one side of the first card is read and the relative position when the other side of the first card is read. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor determines whether similar information is included on one side of a first card as is included on the other side of the first card. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor determines whether a character written in same font type is included on one side of a first card as is included on the other side of the first card. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor determines whether same information is included on one side of a first card as is included on the other side of the first card. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to output, for card images in which the determination results indicate that the first card images have the pair relationship with the second card images, the card images as the information for a card, and register a replacement result in the storage so that previous information in the storage for the card is replaced with the information for the card. ### Claim 7 An information processing apparatus, comprising: a scanner configured to generate a first image including first card images of a first side of each of a plurality of cards and a second image including second card images of a second side of each of the plurality of cards after the plurality of cards are turned over so that positions of the plurality of cards when the second side faces up substantially coincide with positions of the plurality of cards when the first side faces up; and a processor configured to extract each of the first and second card images included in the first image and the second image; determine determination results that indicate whether the first card images and the second card images have a pair relationship based on relative positions of the first card images when the first side of each of the cards are read and the second card images when the second side of each of the cards are read; and register, for card images in which the determination results indicate that the first card images have a pair relationship with the second card images, the card images in a storage as information for the cards. ### Claim 8 A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores programmed instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to: generate a first image including first card images of a first side of each of a plurality of cards and a second image including second card images of a second side of each of the plurality of cards after the plurality of cards are turned over so that positions of the plurality of cards when the second side faces up substantially coincide with positions of the plurality of cards when the first side faces up; extract each of the first and second card images included in the first image and the second image; determine determination results that indicate whether the first card images and the second card images have a pair relationship based on relative positions of the first card images when the first side of each of the cards are read and the second card images when the second side of each of the cards are read; and register, for card images in which the determination results indicate that the first card images have a pair relationship with the second card images, the card images in a storage as information for the cards.