CN107666547B - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program - Google Patents

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CN107666547B
CN107666547B CN201710224453.6A CN201710224453A CN107666547B CN 107666547 B CN107666547 B CN 107666547B CN 201710224453 A CN201710224453 A CN 201710224453A CN 107666547 B CN107666547 B CN 107666547B
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Abstract

The invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method. The image processing apparatus includes: a reading unit that generates a document image for each of a plurality of documents arranged in a reading area by reading the plurality of documents; and an output image generating unit that generates an output image in which the document images generated by the reading unit are arranged in a layout corresponding to a combination of sizes of the document images.

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Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program
Technical Field
The invention relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method.
Background
There are image forming apparatuses having the following functions: the 1 image is formed on a plurality of surfaces (e.g., front and back surfaces of a license) of a document of a specific size such as a license, a passport, or a business card.
For example, the apparatus disclosed in japanese patent application laid-open No. 2009-100102 includes: the image processing apparatus includes a document type specifying section that specifies a type of a document, a document surface switching instruction section that instructs switching between two document surfaces according to the type of the document, and an image processing section that performs image processing predetermined according to the type of the document and the document surface when the document surface of the specified type of the document is read.
It is necessary to copy a combination of specific surfaces of the determined plural kinds of documents into 1 page. For example, there may be the following cases: for the procedure, a copy in which a specific page of an individual ID card and a passport is arranged on 1 sheet in a specific layout is required to be submitted. If the purpose is different, the combination of the submitted originals, the arrangement method (layout) of these originals in the submitted copy are also different. In the method of reading images of respective sides of 1 type of documents designated by the user and copying the images on 1 page, it is not possible to generate output images in which images of a plurality of types of documents are arranged in a layout corresponding to the combination.
Disclosure of Invention
An object of the present invention is to enable generation of an output image in which images of a plurality of documents are arranged in a layout corresponding to a combination of the plurality of documents when the output image is generated from the plurality of documents of different types.
According to the 1 st aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image processing apparatus comprising: a reading unit that generates a document image for each of a plurality of documents arranged in a reading area by reading the plurality of documents; and an output image generating unit that generates an output image in which the document images generated by the reading unit are arranged in a layout corresponding to a combination of sizes of the document images.
According to the 2 nd aspect of the present invention, there is provided the image processing apparatus according to the 1 st aspect of the present invention, wherein the output image generating unit uses, as the layout, a layout corresponding to a combination of sizes of the plurality of document images generated by the reading unit and a set of positional relationships of the plurality of document images within the reading area.
According to a 3 rd aspect of the present invention, there is provided the image processing apparatus according to the 1 st aspect of the present invention, wherein the output image generating means presents a plurality of layouts corresponding to a combination of sizes of the plurality of document images generated by the reading means, accepts selection from a user, and generates the output image using the layout selected by the user, when the plurality of layouts exist.
According to the 4 th aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image processing method including the steps of: generating a document image for each of a plurality of documents arranged in a reading area by reading the plurality of documents; and generating an output image in which the document images generated by the reading unit are arranged in a layout corresponding to a combination of sizes of the document images.
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According to the above-described 1 st or 4 th aspect, it is possible to generate an output image in which images of documents are arranged in a layout corresponding to a combination of documents determined in accordance with the sizes of the respective document images.
According to the above-described aspect 2, when there are a plurality of layouts corresponding to combinations of sizes of document images, the layout to be used can be determined according to the positional relationship of documents arranged in the reading area.
According to the above-described aspect 3, when there are a plurality of layouts corresponding to a combination of sizes of a plurality of document images, a layout desired by a user can be specified.
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Fig. 1 is a diagram for explaining a page structure of a household registration table in china.
Fig. 2 schematically shows a view of a filing document generated by copying a specific page group of an ID card and a family account table on 1 sheet.
Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the image forming apparatus according to the embodiment.
Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the dimensions of each surface of a chinese ID card, a household registration table, and a passport.
Fig. 5 is a diagram for explaining a scan job for generating a copy of an original submitted for a certain procedure and the layout of the original.
Fig. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the data content of the layout determination table.
Fig. 7 is a diagram for explaining a scan job for generating a copy of originals submitted for another procedure and the layout of these originals.
Fig. 8 is a diagram for explaining a scan job for generating a copy of an original submitted for a further procedure and the layout of these originals.
Fig. 9 is a diagram for explaining a scan job for generating a copy of an original submitted for a further procedure and the layout of these originals.
Fig. 10 is a diagram for explaining a scan job for generating a copy of an original submitted for a further procedure and the layout of these originals.
Fig. 11 is a diagram for explaining a scan job for generating a copy of an original submitted for a further procedure and the layout of these originals.
Fig. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a processing procedure in the embodiment.
Fig. 13 is a diagram illustrating more detailed steps of the scanning process in the processing step of fig. 12.
Fig. 14 schematically shows a diagram of a user interface screen provided for a user to select a layout to be used from among a plurality of layouts having the same combination of sizes of corresponding document images.
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Hereinafter, in order to explain the functions of the device of the present embodiment in an easily understandable manner, an example of a file submitted in procedures such as chinese administration will be described.
In china, each individual has an ID (identification) card, and when a government agency or the like handles a procedure, there is a large chance that both front and back sides of the ID card are copied and submitted. In addition, the material to be submitted during the procedure is not limited to the ID card, and may be submitted as a copy of a certificate of residence or passport. With respect to the issue of passports to each individual, the family is issued not in units of individuals but in units of families. As illustrated in fig. 1, the family registration table is a book formed of a plurality of pages, and a page on which information of a family owner is recorded and a page on which information of each member of a family is recorded are combined in one book. As shown in the figure, the membership table is in a top-bottom duplex form, and basic information of the account holder and each of the other members is described on the lower page, and the items of change to the basic information are described on the upper page next to the lower page. It is also sometimes required to submit a duplicate of 2 pages in two, but in many cases it is necessary to submit pages of basic information for the householder and each member located in the lower half.
There is also a procedure for submitting copies of various documents such as ID cards, family lists, passports, or the like. For example, in a certain procedure, as illustrated in fig. 2, there is a case where it is required to submit a copy in which the front and back sides of the ID card of the submitter person, the home page of the family to which the person belongs, and the personal page of the submitter are collectively on page 1.
Conventionally, there is an image forming apparatus having the following functions: for 1 type of file designated by the user, pages to be submitted are sequentially scanned and the scan results of the respective pages are arranged on 1 page for printout. However, in this function, the images of the pages of 1 type of file are grouped into 1 sheet, and the page group extracted from the plurality of types of files cannot be arranged.
In contrast, the image forming apparatus of the present embodiment provides the following functions: the group of pages extracted from the various documents is collected into 1 page (or a plurality of pages) to generate a copy for filing. Hereinafter, the mode of this function is referred to as "ID card copy/automatic mode". An example of an image forming apparatus having the "ID card copy/automatic mode" function will be described below.
Fig. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus shown in fig. 3 is configured as a multifunction peripheral having a scanner function, a printer function, and a copy function, and includes an image reading unit 100, an image forming unit 200, a User Interface (UI) unit 300, and a system control unit 400.
The image reading unit 100 optically scans a document to generate image data, and includes a document feeding device 110 and a reading device 120. The document feeder 110 feeds 1 sheet of the placed documents to the reader 120. The control of the supply of the original is performed by the original feeding control portion 112. The reading device 120 optically reads an image on the front surface of the document fed from the document feeding device 110, and generates image data indicating the reading result. The reading control is performed by the reading control section 122. Further, the image reading unit 100 also has the following functions: the image data including 1 or more documents, not shown, placed on the platen by the user is read to generate image data including the 1 or more documents.
The image forming unit 200 is a unit that forms an image represented by image data on a medium such as paper (hereinafter, simply referred to as paper). The image forming unit 200 includes an image formation control section 210, an image forming section 220, a sheet storage section 230, and a sheet conveying section 240. The image formation control section 210 is a control mechanism that controls the image forming unit 200. The image forming section 220 forms (e.g., prints) an image of image data on a sheet. The paper storage section 230 is a storage device such as a tray that stores a plurality of papers. The paper transport section 240 transports the paper stored in the paper storage section 230 to the image forming section 220, and transports the paper on which an image is formed by the image forming section 220 to a discharge section, not shown.
The user interface unit 300 is a mechanism for accepting an operation of the image forming apparatus by a user, and includes, for example: the image forming apparatus includes a display device that displays a screen including a state of the image forming apparatus and an input field for operation for a user, and an input device that accepts input from the user to the displayed screen. The user interface unit 300 may include a touch panel in which a display device and an input device are integrated, and a numeric keypad and a hardware button as the input device. The user interface control unit 310 performs control such as display of a screen on the display device and reception of user input for the screen.
The system control unit 400 controls the operation of the system as the whole image forming apparatus. The system control unit 400 includes a central control unit 410, a storage unit 420, and an image processing unit 430. The central control unit 410 is a device that controls the entire system control unit 400, and includes a processor that executes a program for the control. The storage unit 420 is a storage device that stores a program for control by the central control unit 410 and data for the control, and includes, for example, a RAM (random access memory). The storage unit 420 may further include a secondary storage device such as a hard disk or a flash memory. The image processing unit 430 performs various image processing on the image read by the image reading unit 100 and the image formed by the image forming unit 200.
The image processing unit 430 includes, as functional blocks for performing image processing for the "ID card copy/automatic mode" function of the present embodiment, an outline recognition unit 432, an outline extraction unit 434, an image correction unit 436, and a layout determination unit 438. The outline recognition unit 432 recognizes the outline (normally, a rectangle) of the image of each document included in the image data by performing processing such as edge detection on the image data output from the image reading unit 100. The outline extraction unit 434 extracts a pixel group indicating the outline of each recognized document image. The image correction section 436 obtains the tilt of each document image from the extracted information on the pixel group of the outline of each document image, and corrects the tilt of each document image based on the obtained tilt information. That is, the document image is rotated so that the vertical and horizontal sides of the rectangle of the outline of the document image are substantially parallel to the X axis and the Y axis of the image data, respectively. The layout determination unit 438 determines the layout when the plurality of document images included in the multiple reading results of the image reading unit 100 are collected into 1 to a plurality of pages of output images. In the layout determination, it is determined which of the previously registered document combinations corresponds to the combination of sizes of the document images, and a layout corresponding to the determined document combination is obtained. The image processing unit 430 generates an output image in which the document image group subjected to the inclination correction by the image correction unit 436 is aligned in accordance with the layout determined by the layout determination unit 438, and passes the output image to the image forming unit 200 to be printed on a sheet. The output image formed by the layout determination performed by the layout determination section 438 will be described in more detail later.
Fig. 4 shows an example of the size of the certification document handled by the "ID card copy/automatic mode" function of the image forming apparatus. As illustrated in fig. 4, the image forming apparatus (particularly, the layout determining unit 438) includes size information of 3 kinds of certification documents such as an ID card, a registration form, and a passport. With regard to the family and passport in the form of a booklet, there is information of the size of 2 pages ("full faces") and the size of 1 page ("half faces") in duplex. For example, assume that the sizes of the respective certification documents are as follows.
ID card: 54mm X86 mm up position: long side edge
Household register (half-surface): 108mm X148 mm upper position: long side edge
Household registration (whole face): 216mm X148 mm up position: short side
Passport (half face): 135mm X90 mm upper position: short side
Passport (entire face): 135mm X180 mm up position: long side edge
For example, in a certain administrative procedure, it is required to copy and submit specific 2 pages ("half 1" and "half 2") of the front and back sides of the ID card and the house register table on 1 page long in a4 size as shown in layout a on the right side of fig. 5. Layout a is a layout in which images of the front and back sides of an ID card are arranged side by side on the upper side of a sheet lengthwise in a4, and a specific "half 1" (for example, home page) and a specific "half 2" (for example, presenter's personal page) of a family table are arranged vertically below the image.
The front and back sides of the ID card cannot be scanned simultaneously, and since the "half 1" and "half 2" of the household registration table are separate pages, they cannot be scanned simultaneously. Therefore, to generate a copy according to layout a, scanning needs to be performed at least twice. Therefore, as shown in fig. 5, for example, the front surface of the ID card and the "half surface 1" of the household table are placed on the platen and scanned 1 st time, and the back surface of the ID card and the "half surface 2" of the household table are scanned 2 nd time. The image processing section 430 holds images of the respective scanning results, and determines which layout is to be applied and prints out the document images based on the document images of the respective sizes included in the images.
Fig. 5 shows a view entitled [ 1 st scan ] showing a state in which a front surface 600 on which an ID card is mounted and a "half surface 1" 610 of a specific page as a house information table are arranged on a platen 500 of the image reading unit 100. Marker 510 indicates the location of the origin O of the platen 500. When the entire area of the platen 500 is read by the [ 1 st scan ], a scanned image is obtained in which the front surface 600 of the ID card and the "half surface 1" 610 of a specific page as a house table are arranged in the positional relationship shown in the drawing. The same applies to the graph entitled [ 2 nd scan ] shown in fig. 5. In the example of fig. 5, the entire area of the platen 500 is assumed to be the reading area in the scanning process, but the area for checking the arrangement of the document may be limited to a predetermined range such as a range of a4 width, and the scanning reading area may be limited to this range.
In the example of fig. 5, an image of 1 ID card size and an image of 1 house book half (page 1 of the book of house books) size are detected based on the result of the 1 st scan, and an image of 1 ID card size and a house book half size are similarly detected based on the result of the 2 nd scan. When such a combination of document sizes is detected, the layout determination unit 438 determines that the layout to be applied to the document image group read this time is the layout a, and notifies the image processing unit 430 of the layout. The image processing section 430 generates an output image by arranging the document image groups in accordance with the layout, and causes the image forming unit 200 to print the output image.
The outline of the "ID card copy/automatic mode" function of the image processing apparatus according to the present embodiment is described above by taking as an example a case of creating a copy for delivery of a specific 2 pages including the front and back sides of an ID card and a user registration table.
In order to provide such a function, the layout determination unit 438 of the image forming apparatus uses a layout determination table illustrated in fig. 6.
In the layout determination table of fig. 6, a combination of sizes of document images included in the images of the regions read by the 1 st and 2 nd scans and identification information of a layout corresponding to the combination are registered. The identification information of the layout is associated with the corresponding layout information. The layout information includes information on the type of each document image included in the layout and the arrangement position (for example, the coordinates of the vertex closest to the origin) of each of the types of document images. The column of "type of submitted document" indicates what procedure the copy result (i.e., the submitted document) obtained by summarizing the document images read by the 1 st and 2 nd scans of the entry is about the government agency. In this way, the layout determination table includes, as information of the combination of sizes, information of a combination of types of documents (specific surfaces such as an ID card and a household registration table) to be submitted for each procedure, and information of the layout for the combination.
The 1 st entry "procedure 1" in the table of fig. 6 defines a layout corresponding to a combination of document images in the 1 st and 2 nd scanned images illustrated in fig. 5.
The 2 nd entry "for procedure 2" specifies that, in the case where a specific half face (half face 1) of the account table and the front face of the ID card are read by the 1 st scan and another specific half face (half face 2) of the account table is read by the 2 nd scan as illustrated in fig. 7, images of these documents are arranged in the layout B and printed out. The procedure 2 is a procedure different from the procedure 1, and a combination of half surfaces of the household list read by the 1 st and 2 nd scans is different from a combination of half surfaces of the household list read by the two scans of the procedure 1 (fig. 5).
The copy for procedure 1 (see fig. 5) and the copy for procedure 2 (see fig. 7) are common in that both faces of the image of the ID card size and both faces of the image of the half-size of the household registration form are included. Therefore, the two images cannot be distinguished only by the combination of the sizes of the read document images. Therefore, the two documents are distinguished from each other by the positional relationship of the documents on the platen (that is, the positional relationship between the images of the documents in the image obtained by scanning the entire surface of the platen). That is, the former of the half surfaces of the ID card and the account registration table in the copy for procedure 1 is arranged at a position closer to the origin of the platen 500 than the latter, and the account registration table in the copy for procedure 2 is arranged at a position closer to the origin than the ID card. When the user creates a copy for procedure 1, the front surface of the ID card and the page (half surface) of the house table to be arranged on the upper side in the layout a are arranged on the platen 500 so that the ID card comes to a position close to the origin O, and the 1 st scan is performed. When the 1 st scan is finished, the ID card is turned over, and the page in the house list that should be arranged on the lower side of the layout a is placed on the right side of the ID card (the side farther than the ID card when viewed from the origin O), and the 2 nd scan is performed. When a copy for procedure 2 is to be created, the half-surface of the account book table to be submitted for procedure 2 is placed on the left side closer to the origin O than the ID card, and scanning is performed. When the 1 st and 2 nd scanned images are detected as the image of the ID card size and the image of the half size of the house account table, respectively, if the image of the ID card size is closer to the origin than the image of the half size of the house account table, the layout determination unit 438 determines that the layout a is used in the current process.
In the layout determination table (fig. 6), the sizes of the document images read by the 1 st and 2 nd scans are arranged in order from near to far with respect to the origin O of the platen 500. For example, in the entry for procedure 1, the ID card size and the house half size are shown in order from above as the document image size in each scan, but this indicates that the document image of the ID card size is located closer to the origin O than the document image of the house half size.
In the layout determination table (fig. 6), the entry for procedure 3 is an entry in the case where the document image included in the two-pass scanning result is a combination of both front and back surfaces of the ID card and the entire surface of the specific double page of the membership table (in which the ID card is arranged at the position closer to the origin O than the membership table) as shown in fig. 8. In this case, a layout C is used in which the front and back images of the ID card are arranged right and left above the vertically long sheet of a4, and the image of the entire duplex page of the user's account table is arranged below the front and back images. (a) The same layout C for procedure 3 is applied when (a) the front side of the ID card is read by the 1 st scan and the back side of the ID card and the scan order of the user account table arranged on the right side thereof are read by the 2 nd scan, in accordance with the scan order of the entire face of a specific double-page spread of the user account table arranged on the right side farther from the origin O than the front side of the ID card, and (b) the front side of the ID card is read by the 1 st scan, and the back side of the ID card and the user account table arranged on the right side thereof are read by the 2 nd scan.
The entry for procedure 4 in the layout determination table is, similarly to procedure 3, an entry for a case where the front and back 2 sides of the ID card and the entire specified double-page pages of the house list (but different from the double-page pages submitted in procedure 3) are read by two scans. However, in order to distinguish from procedure 3, in the 1 st scan, the entire face of the specific double page of the household registration table is arranged at a position closer to the origin O than the front face of the ID card. The layout D applied to this case is a layout as follows: the image of the entire double page of the house registration form is arranged on the upper side of the vertically long sheet of a4, and the front and back sides of the ID card are arranged right and left below the sheet.
As shown in fig. 10, the entry for procedure 5 in the layout determination table is an entry for reading the entire specific double-page and the half specific sides of the account table by two scans to generate a copy (layout E) in which the former is arranged on the upper side and the latter is arranged on the lower side of the a4 long sheet. In the case where there is no other procedure of submitting a copy in which 1 whole duplex page and 1 half page of the family registration form are combined, the application layout E may be determined when the specific half page is read by the 1 st scan and the specific whole duplex page is read by the 2 nd scan, in contrast to the example of fig. 10. In addition, in the case where there is another procedure of submitting a copy in which the whole and half faces of the house book are combined by 1 double page and 1 half face of the house book table, and the layout of the whole and half faces of the house book in the procedure is opposite to the layout E of fig. 10 (the half face is the upper side, and the whole face is the lower side, this is referred to as the layout E2), it is also possible to select which of the layouts E (fig. 10) and E2 is to be used depending on which of the whole and half faces is scanned first.
As shown in fig. 11, the entry for procedure 6 in the layout determination table shows that the front and back surfaces of 3 ID cards are read by two scans, and a copy of layout F in which the front and back surfaces of the same ID card are arranged in the left-right direction and 3 pieces are arranged in order from the top is generated. The arrangement order of the 3 ID cards in the layout E from above is an order corresponding to that of the ID cards in the case of viewing in the order of raster scanning in which the cards descend by 1 step when proceeding rightward from the origin O of the platen and reach the right end and proceed rightward from the left end again. The order of arrangement of the ID cards along the raster scanning path of the image is also an example of the positional relationship between the ID cards. In the example of the figure, the ID card a closest to the origin is uppermost, the ID card B is in the middle, and the ID card C is lowermost. Here, it is determined that the front and back of the ID card are the same between the ID card images with the closest coordinates in the 1 st and 2 nd scan results. For example, in the example of fig. 11, of the images of the ID cards in the 2 nd scanned image, the image closest to the coordinates of the image of the front surface of the ID card a in the 1 st scanned image is the image of the back surface of the ID card a, and therefore, it is determined that these two images are the same front and back surfaces of the ID card. Since it is considered that the user often performs an operation of placing 3 ID cards on the platen 500, performing the 1 st scan, and then turning over the ID cards at substantially the same position for the 2 nd scan, such a correspondence method may be used. In the illustrated example, the layout F is an example in which the front and back surfaces of 3 ID cards are combined into 1 page, but the number of ID cards corresponding to the layout F is not limited to 3. The layout F is also applied when N (N is an integer of 1 or more) ID card-sized images are read by the 1 st scan and the 2 nd scan, respectively. In this case, a page image is generated in which N card images obtained by the 1 st scan are arranged on the left side of the page (as in the case of the 3 sheets example) and N card images obtained by the 2 nd scan are arranged on the right side of the page.
The method of the layout determination by the layout determination unit 438 is described above with reference to a specific example. Next, an example of the processing procedure of "ID card copy/automatic mode" in the image forming apparatus will be described with reference to fig. 12 and 13.
As shown in fig. 12, the user starts the procedure when the user selects the use "ID card copy/auto mode" on the menu screen displayed on the user interface unit 300 of the image forming apparatus (S10). After the selection, the user arranges the original (ID card or the like) to be read by the 1 st scan on the platen of the image reading unit 100 for the purpose of making a delivery copy for the procedure (S12). This arrangement is performed according to the rule defined in the layout decision table (fig. 6). For example, if the manufacturer is an industry manufacturer who creates a copy for a procedure for a customer, such arrangement is easy to perform because such rules are stored.
When the arrangement of the original on the platen is completed, the user presses the start button of the user interface unit 300 (S14). When the user presses the start button, the image reading unit 100 executes the 1 st scanning process (S16). The scanning process is performed according to the steps shown in fig. 13.
That is, the image reading unit 100 scans the entire surface of the platen (S40), and passes the scanned image obtained by the scanning to the image processing unit 430. The image processing unit 430 cuts out an image of each document from the scanned image by the contour recognizing unit 432 and the contour extracting unit 434 (S42). Then, it is determined whether the number of cut-out document images is 0 or 1 or more (S44), and if 0, the abnormal termination is performed. When the number of cut-out document images is 1 or more, the image correction section 436 performs a known skew correction process on each of the document images (S46). Then, the image processing unit 430 obtains the coordinates (for example, the coordinates of the vertex closest to the origin O in the rectangular outline of the corrected document image) and the size of the reference point of each document image whose tilt has been corrected, and records the image data of each corrected image, the coordinates of the reference point, and the information of the size as the information of the document scanned this time (S48). Then, the image processing section 430 determines the order of the document images for which the tilt correction is completed, and records the order information as the order information of the document image of the current scanning (S50). This order is an order in which the scanned images meet each document image (tilt correction is completed) when the scanned images are checked in raster scan order from the origin O, for example (or an order close to the origin O).
Returning to the description of fig. 12, when the 1 st scanning process abnormally ends, the image forming apparatus displays a screen indicating that a scanning error has occurred (S18) and ends the process, and displays a menu screen to wait for an instruction from the user.
When the 1 st scanning process is normally ended, the user replaces the original set on the platen with the one for the 2 nd scanning (S20). For example, the ID card is turned over, and the page of the household table that should be read at the 2 nd reading is opened and replaced on the table. After the completion of the replacement job of the original, the user presses a start button (S22). Thereby, the image reading unit 100 scans the entire area of the platen (S24: 2 nd scanning process). The 2 nd scan processing will be described later with reference to fig. 13. When the scanning process is abnormally terminated, the image forming apparatus displays a screen indicating that a scanning error has occurred (S26) to terminate the process, and displays a menu screen to wait for an instruction from the user.
When the 2 nd scanning process normally ends, the layout determination unit 438 searches the layout determination table (fig. 7) for the layout corresponding to the combination of the sizes of the document images read at the 1 st and 2 nd times (S28). That is, the size and order of each document image recorded in S48 and S50 are acquired in each of the 1 st and 2 nd scans, and a combination of the size and order is obtained for the 1 st and 2 nd scans. Then, an entry matching the combination is searched for from the layout determination table, and if a corresponding entry is found, information on the layout of the entry is acquired.
The image processing section 430 determines whether or not the corresponding entry is found in S28 (S30). In a case where the corresponding entry is not found, an error message such as a layout that does not exist corresponding to the combination of scanned originals is displayed on the display screen of the user interface unit 300 (S32). In addition, when the corresponding entry is not found, instead of the error, a page image in which the scanned document image group is arranged according to a predetermined rule (for example, arranged in the order of reading images) may be generated and printed.
In the case where a corresponding entry is found in S30, the image processing section 430 arranges the tilt-corrected document images stored in S48 of the respective scanning processes in accordance with the layout in the entry, thereby generating output image data (S34). Then, the output image data is supplied to the image forming unit 200 and printed on a sheet (S36).
In the above example, when there is a procedure in which the combination of the types (corresponding to the sizes) of a plurality of document images to be submitted is the same, the layout determination unit 438 determines which procedure to use based on the positional relationship of the document images (for example, which of the ID card and the house surface half is close to the origin of the platen). In contrast, as another example, the user may select which layout to use. In this example, when there are a plurality of layouts corresponding to combinations of sizes of document images obtained in the 1 st and 2 nd scans in the layout determination table, the layout determination unit 438 notifies the user interface section 300 of the plurality of layouts and displays a user interface screen 700 (see fig. 14) showing the plurality of layouts as options. On the left side of the user interface screen 700 illustrated in fig. 14, two layouts corresponding to a combination of two user registration surfaces of two ID card sizes and two half-size surfaces, that is, layouts for procedure 1 and procedure 2 are displayed, and the user specifies which of the layouts is to be used by a touch operation or by inputting a number of the layout.
The embodiments of the present invention have been described above. The information processing means (e.g., the system control unit 400) of the image forming apparatus exemplified above is realized by causing a computer to execute a program representing the above-described functions with respect to the information processing means. Here, the personal computer includes, as hardware, a circuit configuration connected via a bus or the like, for example, such as a microprocessor such as a CPU, a memory (one-time memory) such as a Random Access Memory (RAM) or a Read Only Memory (ROM), a controller for controlling a fixed storage device such as a flash memory, an SSD (solid state disk), or an HDD (hard disk drive), various I/O (input/output) interfaces, and a network interface for controlling connection to a network such as a local area network. The program describing the processing contents of these functions is stored in a fixed storage device such as a flash memory via a network or the like, and is installed in a computer. The program stored in the fixed storage device is read out from the RAM and executed by a microprocessor such as a CPU, thereby realizing the above-exemplified function module group. Part of the system control unit 400 (for example, a part that performs image processing such as contour extraction) or the entire system control unit is mounted on a hardware Circuit such as an LSI (Large Scale Integration) or an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit).

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1. An image processing apparatus, wherein the image processing apparatus has:
a reading unit that reads a plurality of different types of documents arranged in a reading area by two scans, and generates document images for each of the plurality of documents by laying out images after the two scans;
a layout determination unit that determines which of the previously registered document combinations corresponds to the combination of sizes of the document images, and determines a layout corresponding to the determined document combination; and
and an output image generating unit that generates an output image in which the document images are arranged in accordance with the layout determined by the layout determining unit.
2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,
the layout determination section uses, as the layout, a layout corresponding to a combination of sizes of the plurality of document images generated by the reading unit and a set of positional relationships of the plurality of document images within the reading area.
3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,
when there are a plurality of layouts corresponding to a combination of sizes of the plurality of document images generated by the reading section, the output image generating section presents the plurality of layouts and accepts a selection from a user, and generates the output image using the layout selected by the user.
4. An image processing method, wherein the image processing method comprises the following steps:
reading a plurality of originals different in kind arranged in a reading area by two scans, laying out images after the two scans, and generating an original image for each of the plurality of originals;
determining which of the pre-registered document combinations corresponds to the combination of sizes of the document images, and finding a layout corresponding to the determined document combination; and
an output image in which the document images are arranged in accordance with the obtained layout is generated.
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