Image processing apparatus that performs multi-crop processing, method of generating image in units of documents by multi-crop processing and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11069068-B2
Application number	US-201916411599-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 14, 2019
Priority date	May 25, 2018
Publication date	Jul 20, 2021
Grant date	Jul 20, 2021

Abstract

To make it possible to cut out an image area corresponding to a document with a high accuracy from an image obtained by scanning a document without forcing a user to perform complicated work or without giving a feeling of discomfort at the time of performing multi-crop processing. To this end, first, position information on the document is acquired by detecting an edge component from a first image obtained by setting high the first white reference value. Then, an image area corresponding to the document is cut out based on the acquired position information from a second image obtained by setting the second white reference value lower than the first white reference value.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image processing apparatus that performs crop processing for image data obtained by a scanner scanning a document, the apparatus comprising:
at least one memory that stores a program; and
at least one processor that executes the program to:
detect an edge component of the document from a first image to acquire position information of the document within the first image, wherein the first image is obtained by normalizing a signal value output from the scanner by using a first white reference value; and
crop, based on the acquired position information of the document, a document image corresponding to the document from a second image, wherein the second image is obtained by normalizing a signal value output from the scanner by using a second white reference value,
wherein the first white reference value is higher than the second white reference value.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a document table for placing the document; and
the scanner that scans a document placed on the document table,
the at least one processor controls the scanner to scan a document placed on the document table and generates the first image by using the first white reference value and the second image by using the second white reference value.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the first white reference value is a value higher than a signal value obtained by scanning a white reference plate.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the at least one processor controls the scanner to perform a scan for generating the first image and a scan for generating the second image separately from each other.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor further performs resolution reduction processing for the first image, and wherein the edge component of the document is detected from the first image whose resolution is reduced, and wherein the position information of the document within the first image is acquired based on the detected edge component.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor further performs graying conversion processing to convert the first image into the image of one channel, and wherein the edge component of the document is detected from the first image which is converted into the image of one channel, and wherein the position information of the document within the first image is acquired based on the detected edge component.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor further performs graying conversion processing to convert the first image into the image of one channel and resolution reduction processing to convert the first image into an image with a low resolution, and wherein the edge component of the document is detected from the first image which is converted into the image of one channel and whose resolution is reduced.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor corrects the acquired position information to suppress a position shift between the first image and the second image, and
wherein the document image corresponding to the document is cropped from the second image based on the corrected position information.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor acquires, in a case where the document is a rectangle in shape, coordinates of four vertexes of the rectangle as the position information of the document.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the unit at least one processor finds, in a case where the document is not a rectangle in shape, a minimum circumscribed rectangle of the document and acquires coordinates of four vertexes of the minimum circumscribed rectangle as the position information.

11. A method of crop processing for image data obtained by a scanner scanning an area including a document, the method comprising:
detecting an edge component of the document from a first image obtained by normalizing a signal value output from the scanner by using a first white reference, value;
acquiring position information of the document within the first image; and
cropping, based on the acquired position information of the document, a document image corresponding to the document from a second image which is obtained by normalizing a signal value output from the scanner by using a second white reference value, wherein
the first white reference value is higher than the second white reference value.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform:
detecting an edge component of a document from a first image which is obtained by normalizing a signal value output from a scanner scanning a document by using a first white reference value;
acquiring position information of the document within the first image; and
cropping, based on the acquired position information of the document, a document image corresponding to the document from a second image which is obtained by normalizing a signal value output from the scanner by using a second white reference value, wherein
the first white reference value is higher than the second white reference value.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Shimamura Koya

Classifications

• H04N2201/0081

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

• H04N1/40068

  Modification of image resolution, i.e. determining the values of picture elements at new relative positions (H04N1/3935 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04N1/3872 Primary

  Repositioning or masking · CPC title

• G06T7/74

  involving reference images or patches · CPC title

• G06T2207/20132

  Image cropping · CPC title