Information processing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10182175-B2
Application number	US-201715467063-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2017
Priority date	Mar 29, 2016
Publication date	Jan 15, 2019
Grant date	Jan 15, 2019

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a manuscript reader configured to read a manuscript, an embedment processing unit configured to perform a process of embedding additional information into data of the manuscript that has been read by the manuscript reader. The embedment processing unit embeds, as the additional information, a pattern including a plurality of dots arranged in such a shape that an inclination of the manuscript is detectable.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a manuscript reader configured to read a manuscript; and
processing circuitry configured to embed additional information into data of the read manuscript, the processing circuitry configured to embed, as the additional information, a plurality of patterns, each including a plurality of dots and each having an oval contour, wherein the patterns are embedded into the data of the read manuscript and are arranged along same directions, respectively, so that an inclination of the manuscript is detectable,
wherein each of the plurality of patterns includes a first pattern having a first plurality of dots and a second pattern having a second plurality of dots, the second pattern enclosing the first pattern, and being different in size than the first pattern, and
the first plurality of dots and the second plurality of dots each form an identical shape.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the manuscript reader is further configured to set an orientation of the manuscript to a predetermined direction.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to divide the manuscript into a plurality of areas, and embed one of the plurality of patterns in each of the plurality of areas that have been divided.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second pattern includes information that is not embedded in the first pattern, in the additional information.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to embed each of the plurality of patterns, each pattern including a first dot pattern formed inside a second dot pattern.

6. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a manuscript reader configured to read a manuscript in which additional information is embedded, the additional information being embedded in data of the manuscript as a plurality of patterns, each including a plurality of dots and each having an oval contour, wherein the patterns are embedded into the data of the read manuscript and are arranged along same directions, respectively, so that an inclination of the manuscript is detectable,
wherein each of the plurality of patterns includes a first pattern having a first plurality of dots and a second pattern having a second plurality of dots, the second pattern enclosing the first pattern, and being different in size than the first pattern, and
the first plurality of dots and the second plurality of dots each form an identical shape;

and
processing circuitry configured to
generate an instruction for performing a process of detecting the additional information embedded in the data of the manuscript read by the manuscript reader,
perform the process of detecting the additional information in response to the instruction; and
correct an inclination of a pattern of a reference manuscript serving as a predetermined reference in accordance with an inclination angle between the inclination of one of the patterns embedded in the data of the manuscript and the inclination of the pattern of the reference manuscript,

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to detect the additional information embedded in the data of the manuscript at same positions as the pattern of the reference manuscript that has been corrected.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein each pattern includes the plurality of dots, which are arranged at coordinates of the manuscript, and
wherein the inclination angle is calculated from the coordinates.

8. The information processing apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to detect each of the plurality of patterns, each pattern including a first dot pattern formed inside a second dot pattern.

Assignees

• Matsumura Yutaka
• Shindoh Hidenori
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Matsumura Yutaka
• Shindoh Hidenori

Classifications

• H04N1/3878 Primary

  Skew detection or correction · CPC title

• H04N2201/0434

  specially adapted for scanning pages of a book · CPC title

• H04N1/3224

  in edge regions · CPC title

• H04N1/32149

  Methods relating to embedding, encoding, decoding, detection or retrieval operations · CPC title

• H04N2201/0081

  Image reader (H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence) · CPC title