Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080219560 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Based on an area detection signal, a layer separation section outputs a text component of a document, to a feature point calculating section, and generates four layers from a pictorial component of the document to output the generated layers to the feature point calculating section. The feature point calculating section sums feature points extracted for each component. A features calculating section calculates a hash value based on the feature points. A vote processing section searches a hash table based on the hash value, and votes for a reference image associated with the hash value. Based on the voting result, a similarity determination processing section determines whether the document image is similar to any reference image, and then outputs the determination result. Thus, even if the document contains a photograph, accurate matching can be performed. | 09-11-2008 |
20080231899 | Image forming system, portable communication device, recording medium and image formation method - When printing a file stored in a PC by a digital multi-function peripheral specified by a user, a portable terminal device transmits a print request to the PC, calculates a total time of processing time between the portable terminal device and PC and processing time between the PC and digital multi-function peripheral as an estimated print time, and displays the estimated print time. | 09-25-2008 |
20080239350 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In an image processing apparatus for determining whether input image data is identical with image data of a reference image or not and performing a process according to the result of the determination, input image data whose similarity to a reference image is not less than a predetermined first threshold value or encoded image data obtained by encoding the input image data is stored in an access limitation storage section to which only a specific user is accessible. This allows an administrator to easily check whether the result of the determination is appropriate or not, without requiring a larger and more complex structure. | 10-02-2008 |
20080292189 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a data obtaining section for obtaining input image data; a memory in which reference image data or features of a reference image is stored; and a similarity determination process section for performing a determination process in which it is determined whether the input image data is image data corresponding to the reference image or not. The similarity determination process section changes the determination process in accordance with related information of the input image data. Consequently, it is possible to realize an image processing apparatus capable of determining a similarity between input image data and a reference image and restricting a process on the input image data in accordance with the result of the determination. | 11-27-2008 |
20090122030 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POINTED POSITION - A plurality of infrared-light-emitting areas are displayed in a display screen of a liquid crystal display apparatus in a method that allows each of the infrared-light-emitting areas to be distinguished. Then, an image in a direction of a pointed position is captured by an operating device. Further, a predetermined number of infrared-light-emitting areas are selected from the infrared-light-emitting areas included in thus captured image. Based on a result of distinguishing each of the selected infrared-light-emitting areas and a position of each of the selected infrared-light-emitting areas, a pointed position on the display screen is calculated. This makes it possible to properly detect the pointed position on the display screen pointed by the operating device, regardless of a distance between the operating device and the display apparatus. | 05-14-2009 |
20090140980 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POINTED POSITION - A plurality of infrared-light-emitting areas are displayed in a display screen of a liquid crystal display apparatus in a method that allows each of the infrared-light-emitting areas to be distinguished. Then, an image in a direction of a pointed position is captured by an operating device. Based on a result of distinguishing each of the infrared-light-emitting areas and a position of each of the infrared-light-emitting areas, a pointed position on the display screen is calculated. This makes it possible to properly detect the pointed position on the display screen pointed by the operating device, regardless of (i) a distance between the operating device and the display apparatus and (ii) a rotation angle of the operating device around an axis in an image capture direction of the operating device. | 06-04-2009 |
20090150390 | DATA RETRIEVING APPARATUS, DATA RETRIEVING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a server apparatus including a document database for storing a plurality of documents, a retrieval log database for storing a retrieval history made when retrieving documents corresponding to an inputted retrieval condition from the document database, and an access log database for storing an access history made when browsing and printing documents, degrees of utilization of documents are calculated based on the respective retrieval history and access history, and documents are extracted from the document database based on the calculated degrees of utilization. When a request for an extraction result is received, the extraction result is presented to a PC that the user is using. | 06-11-2009 |
20090202156 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing system according to the present invention includes: a management server in which related information set with respect to reference image data is stored; a similarity determination process section for determining whether or not there is a similarity between input image data and the reference image data; a related information obtaining process section for obtaining related information from a related information storage section if the similarity determination process section determines that there is a similarity between the input image data and the reference image data; and a control section for adding the related information obtained to the input image data. With the arrangement, it becomes possible for the image processing system to add appropriate related information to inputted image data, so as to realize an accurate search for the image data on the basis of the related information. | 08-13-2009 |