Information processing apparatus, information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016205284-A1
Application number	US-201514899547-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 19, 2015
Priority date	Jul 28, 2014
Publication date	Jul 14, 2016
Grant date	—

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.

First 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.

2 . 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.

3 . 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.

4 . 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.

5 . 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.

6 . 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.

7 . 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.

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.

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Fujimoto Norie

Classifications

• H04N1/00251 Primary

  with an apparatus for taking photographic images, e.g. a camera · CPC title

• H04N1/442

  using a biometric data reading device · CPC title

• H04N1/00801

  according to characteristics of the original · CPC title

• H04N1/2137

  with temporary storage before final recording, e.g. in a frame buffer · CPC title

• H04N2201/0065

  Converting image data to a format usable by the connected apparatus or vice versa · CPC title