JP2006270199A - System, method, and program for compressing image, and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image compression method capable of making the size of data appropriate in an output image that is a compressed result by automatically adjusting a compression ratio to an input image. <P>SOLUTION: There are provided: an image operating device 101 operated by program control; an image compressing device 102 operated by program control; and an image compression operating device 103 for operating image compression processing by enabling a user to designate the input source of a target image file and the output destination of a compression image file. The image compressing device 102 individually performs character recognition to a compressed image compressed by using reference compression ratio data and evaluation count data for each image to be compressed inputted from the image operating device 101, automatically determines the appropriate compression ratio by using reference difference ratio data, reference image character recognition result data, and compressed image character recognition result data, and outputs the compressed result image. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an image compression system, an image compression method, an image compression program, and a recording medium.

  As an image compression technique with a high compression rate, there are internationally standardized JPEG and JPEG2000. However, if the image is compressed at a high compression rate, there is a problem that it becomes impossible to return to the original image at the time of display and it becomes difficult to read the characters.

  Conventionally, as an image compression system, what is shown by patent document 1, patent document 2, patent document 3, patent document 4, patent document 5, patent document 6, for example is known.

  In the methods shown in Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2, since a statistical method is used to determine the compression rate, it is necessary to obtain statistical properties. Every time the compression method, the conversion parameter, or the like is changed, In addition, it is necessary to evaluate the image quality by a large number of people again, perform subjective evaluation, judge whether the image quality is good or bad, and learn statistical information.

  In the method of Patent Document 3, the difference between the original image and the compressed image must be detected and the image quality must be mechanically evaluated before determining the compression rate, and complex learning using a neural network is performed. Must be done.

In the methods of Patent Document 4, Patent Document 5, and Patent Document 6, the original one image is divided into character portions and graphic portions, or the color portion is changed to monochrome to reduce the data amount. It becomes an image different from the image of.
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  In other words, the first problem of the above-described conventional image compression system is that in order to determine an appropriate compression ratio, the result data obtained by compressing the image at a plurality of compression ratios is displayed, and the user can visually It means that you have to make a subjective evaluation and make a selection. This is because the user cannot specify an appropriate compression rate for each image data in advance.

  The second problem is that when a plurality of images are compressed at once, it is difficult for the user to specify an appropriate compression rate individually for each image in advance. The reason is that when a plurality of images are compressed in a batch, the images are compressed at a single compression rate designated in advance.

  A third problem is that complicated learning must be performed in order to obtain an appropriate image compression rate. The reason is that statistical information is required as the original information for calculating the compression rate.

  The fourth problem is that an image different from the original image is output. The reason is that one original image is divided into a plurality of data such as a character portion and a graphic portion, and image data of the divided character portion and graphic portion is compressed as different data formats.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an image compression system capable of automatically adjusting a compression rate for an input image and appropriately adjusting a data size of an output image as a compression result.

  Another object of the present invention is an image compression which can automatically adjust the compression rate for a plurality of input images individually for each image to make the data size of an output image as a compression result appropriate. To provide a system.

  Still another object of the present invention is to provide an image compression system capable of obtaining an appropriate image compression rate without performing complicated learning.

  Still another object of the present invention is to provide an image compression system capable of dividing an original image or compressing and outputting a divided image as it is without outputting it in a different format. It is in.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an image manipulation device that operates under program control, an image compression device that operates according to program control, and a user specifies an input source of a target image file and an output destination of a compressed image file. And an image compression operation device that operates the image compression processing, and the image compression device compresses each compression target image input from the image operation device individually using the reference compression rate data and the evaluation count data. Character recognition of the compressed image, and automatically determining an appropriate compression rate using the reference difference rate data, the reference image character recognition result data, and the compressed image character recognition result data, and outputting the compressed compression result image This is an image compression system.

  According to the present invention, in the image compression system according to claim 1, the image compression apparatus automatically and appropriately uses the difference rate data obtained by comparing the reference image character recognition result data and the compressed image character recognition result data. An image compression system characterized by determining a compression rate.

  The present invention also provides an image manipulation device that operates under program control, an image compression device that operates under program control, and a user specifies an input source of a target image file and an output destination of a compressed image file to perform image compression processing. An image compression operation device to be operated, and the image operation device inputs all target image files that are input sources of target image files designated by the user at the image compression operation device, and one for all target image files. An image compression system in which an image compression apparatus automatically compresses images one by one at an appropriate compression rate, and an image manipulation apparatus outputs a compressed image as a compressed image file.

  The present invention also provides an image manipulation device that operates under program control, an image compression device that operates under program control, and a user specifies an input source of a target image file and an output destination of a compressed image file to perform image compression processing. The image compression system includes an image compression operation device to be operated, and the image compression device compresses a compression target image as it is at a designated compression rate.

  In addition, the present invention individually recognizes a compressed image compressed using the reference compression rate data and the evaluation count data for each compression target image, and generates reference difference rate data, reference image character recognition result data, and compressed image character. An image compression method characterized by automatically determining an appropriate compression ratio using recognition result data and outputting a compressed compression result image.

  According to the present invention, in the image compression method according to claim 5, an appropriate compression rate is automatically determined using difference rate data obtained by comparing the reference image character recognition result data and the compressed image character recognition result data. An image compression method characterized by the above.

  Further, the present invention inputs all target image files that are input sources of target image files designated by the user, compresses all target image files one by one at an appropriate compression rate, and compresses them. The resulting image is output as a compressed image file.

  The present invention is also an image compression program for causing a computer to perform the image compression method according to any one of claims 5 to 7.

  The present invention is also a computer-readable recording medium on which the image compression program according to claim 8 is recorded.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically adjust the compression rate for an input image and to appropriately set the data size of an output image as a compression result.

  The reason for this is that in the present invention, for each image to be compressed, the compressed image compressed using the reference compression rate data and the evaluation count data is character-recognized, and the reference dissimilarity rate data, the reference image character recognition result data, and the compression are compressed. This is because an appropriate compression rate is automatically determined using the image character recognition result data and a compressed compression result image is output.

  According to the present invention, an appropriate image compression rate can be obtained without performing complicated learning.

  The reason is that in the present invention, an appropriate compression rate is automatically determined using difference rate data obtained by comparing the reference image character recognition result data and the compressed image character recognition result data.

  Furthermore, according to the present invention, it is possible to automatically adjust the compression rate for a plurality of input images individually for each image and to appropriately set the data size of an output image as a compression result.

  The reason is that in the present invention, all target image files that are input sources of target image files specified by the user are input, and all target image files are individually compressed at an appropriate compression rate. This is because the compressed image is output as a compressed image file.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to compress and output an original image as it is without dividing the original image or outputting the divided image in a different format.

  The reason is that in the present invention, the image compression means of the image compression apparatus compresses the compression target image as it is at a designated compression rate.

  Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an image compression system of the present invention. The image compression system of FIG. 1 includes an image operation device 101, an image compression device 102, and an image compression operation device 103.

  Here, the image operation device 101 includes an image operation unit 106, an image input unit 107, and an image output unit 108.

  The image compression apparatus 102 includes an image compression management unit 111, an image compression unit 112, a character recognition unit 113, and a character recognition result comparison unit 114.

  The functions of these means are as follows.

  That is, the image operation unit 106 performs an operation of inputting all target image files 104 that are input sources of the target image file 104 specified by the user by the image compression operation device 103, and all target image files 104. The operation of repeating the image compression processing by the image compression apparatus 102 and all the compressed image files 105 compressed by the image compression apparatus 102 are output by the image compression operation apparatus 103 to the output destination of the compressed image file 105 designated by the user. It has a function to operate the processing.

  The image input unit 107 has a function of inputting the target image file 104 as the input source of the target image file 104 designated by the user using the image compression operation device 103 and outputting the target image file 104 to the image compression device 102 as the compression target image 109. is doing.

  The image output unit 108 has a function of inputting the compression result image 110 from the image compression apparatus 102 and outputting the compressed image file 105 to an output destination designated by the user using the image compression operation apparatus 103.

  The image compression unit 112 has a function of compressing the compression target image 109 input from the image operation apparatus 101 at a designated compression rate and outputting the reference compressed image 118 or the compressed image 119.

  Further, the character recognition unit 113 has a function of outputting the reference image character recognition result data 120 or the compressed image character recognition result data 121 obtained by character recognition using the image compressed by the image compression unit 112 as an input.

  The character recognition result comparison unit 114 has a function of comparing the reference image character recognition result data 120 recognized by the character recognition unit 113 and the compressed image character recognition result data 121 and outputting the difference rate data 122.

  Further, the image compression management unit 111 inputs the reference compression rate data 115, the reference difference rate data 116, and the evaluation frequency data 117 prepared by the user in advance, inputs the compression target image 109 from the image operating device 101, and the reference The compression target image 109 is compressed by the image compression means 112 using the compression rate data 115 and the reference compressed image 118 is output, and the reference compressed image 118 is recognized by the character recognition means 113 and the reference image character recognition result data 120 is obtained. The first compression ratio for comparison is determined using the reference compression ratio data 115 and the evaluation count data 117, and the compression target image 109 is compressed by the image compression means 112 using the comparison compression ratio. The compressed image 119 is output, the compressed image 119 is recognized by the character recognition unit 113, and the compressed image character recognition result data 121 is output. The character recognition result data 120 and the compressed image character recognition result data 121 are compared by the character recognition result comparison unit 114 to output the difference rate data 122, and the reference difference rate data 116, the difference rate data 122, and the evaluation count data 117 are used. The next comparison compression rate is determined, and image compression is repeatedly executed using the evaluation count data 117 to determine the final optimum image compression rate, and the compression result image 110 is output to the image manipulation device 101. It has a function.

  In other words, the present invention relates to an image manipulation device that operates under program control, an image compression device that operates according to program control, and a user specifies an input source of a target image file and an output destination of a compressed image file to compress the image. An image compression operation device for operating processing, and the image compression device individually compresses a compressed image compressed using the reference compression rate data and the evaluation count data for each compression target image input from the image operation device. Character recognition is performed, an appropriate compression rate is automatically determined using reference difference rate data, reference image character recognition result data, and compressed image character recognition result data, and a compressed compression result image is output.

  According to the present invention, in the image compression system, the image compression device automatically determines an appropriate compression ratio using difference rate data obtained by comparing the reference image character recognition result data and the compressed image character recognition result data. It is characterized by doing.

  The present invention also provides an image manipulation device that operates under program control, an image compression device that operates under program control, and a user specifies an input source of a target image file and an output destination of a compressed image file to perform image compression processing. An image compression operation device to be operated, and the image operation device inputs all target image files that are input sources of target image files designated by the user at the image compression operation device, and one for all target image files. Each image compression apparatus automatically compresses each image at an appropriate compression rate, and the image operation apparatus outputs a compressed image as a compressed image file.

  The present invention also provides an image manipulation device that operates under program control, an image compression device that operates under program control, and a user specifies an input source of a target image file and an output destination of a compressed image file to perform image compression processing. An image compression operation device to be operated, and the image compression device compresses the compression target image as it is at a designated compression rate.

  More specifically, the present invention relates to a processing operation for inputting all target image files 104 that are input sources of target image files designated by the user using the image compression operation device 103, and images for all target image files 104. The operation of repeating the image compression processing by the compression device 102 and the processing of outputting all the compressed image files 105 compressed by the image compression device 102 to the output destination of the compressed image file designated by the user by the image compression device 102 An image operation unit 106 that performs an operation and an input source image file 104 that is an input source of the target image file specified by the user using the image operation device 101 are input, and an image input unit 107 that outputs the compressed image 109 to the image compression device 102. The compression result image 110 is input from the image compression device 102 and used by the image manipulation device 101. An image output unit 108 that outputs the compressed image file 105 to the output destination specified by the image compression unit 112, and an image compression unit 112 that compresses the compression target image 109 input from the image operation apparatus 101 at a specified compression rate and outputs a compressed image. The character recognition unit 113 that outputs character recognition result data that has been recognized using the image compressed by the image compression unit 112 as input, and the two character recognition result data recognized by the character recognition unit 113 are compared, and the difference rate data 122 is obtained. The character recognition result comparison means 114 to be output, the reference compression rate data 115, the reference dissimilarity rate data 116 and the evaluation frequency data 117 prepared by the user in advance are input, the compression target image 109 is input from the image operating device 101, and the reference The compression target image 109 is compressed by the image compression means 112 using the compression rate data 115 and the reference compressed image 118 is converted. The character recognition means 113 recognizes the character of the reference compressed image 118 and outputs reference image character recognition result data 120. The reference compression rate data 115 and the evaluation count data 117 are used to determine the compression rate for the first comparison. The compressed image 119 is compressed by the image compression unit 112 using the compression ratio for comparison, and the compressed image 119 is output. The character recognition unit 113 recognizes characters and the compressed image character recognition result is determined. The data 121 is output, the reference image character recognition result data 120 and the compressed image character recognition result data 121 are compared by the character recognition result comparison unit 114, and the difference rate data 122 is output. The reference difference rate data 115 and the difference rate data 122 are output. And the evaluation frequency data 117 are used to determine the compression ratio for the next comparison, and the evaluation frequency data 117 is used to repeatedly perform image compression to obtain the final compression rate. An image compression management unit 111 that determines an appropriate image compression rate and outputs the compression result image 110 to the image operation apparatus 101 is provided.

  Here, the digitized characters extracted from the original data of the target image file 104 instead of the character recognition result data obtained by character recognition of the reference compressed image 119 obtained by compressing the compression target image 109 at the reference compression rate by the character recognition unit 113. It is also possible to use character recognition result comparison means 114 that inputs and uses data as reference image character recognition data.

  Further, instead of the evaluation count data 117, the image compression means 112 outputs a plurality of compressed images at a constant compression rate, and the plurality of compressed images are recognized by the character recognition means 113 and a plurality of compressed images are output. The compressed image character recognition result data is output, the reference image character recognition result data and the difference rate data 122 output by the character recognition result comparison unit 114 and the reference difference rate are repeatedly compared for the plurality of compressed images, An image compression management unit 111 that determines an optimal image compression rate close to the reference difference rate can also be used.

  Next, the operation of the image compression system of FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS.

  First, referring to FIG. 2, the operation of the image operation apparatus 101 is as follows.

  That is, the user designates the input source of the target image file 104 using the image compression operation device 103 (step A01 in FIG. 2). Further, the user designates the output destination of the compressed image file 105 using the image compression operation device 103 (step A02 in FIG. 2).

  The image operation means 106 of the image operation apparatus 101 inputs the target image file 104 with the image input means 107 (step A03 in FIG. 2). The image operation apparatus 101 sends the compression target image 109 to the image compression apparatus 102 (step A04 in FIG. 2). The image compression apparatus 102 compresses the compression target image 109 (step A05 in FIG. 2). The image compression apparatus 102 sends the compression result image 110 to the image operation apparatus 101 (step A06 in FIG. 2). The image operation means 106 of the image operation apparatus 101 outputs the compressed image file 105 by the image output means 108 (step A07 in FIG. 2).

  When the output of the compressed image file 105, which is the compression result of all the target image files 104, is completed, the process ends (step A08 in FIG. 2).

  Next, referring to FIG. 3, the operation of the image compression apparatus 102 is as follows.

  That is, the compression target image 109 is compressed by the image compression unit 112 at the compression rate of the reference compression rate data 115, and the character recognition unit 113 recognizes characters (step B01 in FIG. 3). The image compression management unit 111 determines the first comparison compression rate, and the image compression unit 112 compresses the compression target image 109 (step B02 in FIG. 3). The comparison compressed image 119 is recognized by the character recognition unit 113, and the character recognition result of the reference compressed image 118 is compared with the character recognition result comparison unit 104 to output the difference rate data 112 (step B03 in FIG. 3).

  If the evaluations for the number of evaluation times data 117 have been completed, the iterative process is completed and the process proceeds to the final step B08. If not completed, the process proceeds to the next iterative process step B05 (step B04 in FIG. 3).

  It is compared whether or not the difference rate data 122 is lower than the reference difference rate data 116 (step B05 in FIG. 3). When the difference rate data 122 is lower than the reference difference rate data 116, a comparison compression rate higher than the previous compression rate is determined, and the compression target image 109 is compressed (step B06 in FIG. 3). When the difference rate data 122 is higher than the reference difference rate data 116, a comparison compression rate lower than the previous compression rate is determined, and the compression target image 109 is compressed (step B07 in FIG. 3).

  The compression result image 110 is determined from the comparison result of the character recognition results of the reference compressed image 118 and the final compressed image 119, and is output (step B08 in FIG. 3).

  The image compression system of FIG. 1 has the following effects.

  In other words, in the image compression system of FIG. 1, for each compression target image 109 input to the image compression apparatus 102, the compressed image 119 compressed using the reference compression rate data 115 and the evaluation count data 117 is recognized. In order to automatically determine an appropriate compression ratio using the reference difference rate data 116, the reference image character recognition result data 120, and the compressed image character recognition result data 121 and output the compressed compression result image 110, By automatically adjusting the compression rate, the data size of the output image that is the compression result can be made appropriate.

  Further, in the image compression system of FIG. 1, the image operation device 101 further inputs all the target image files 104 that are input sources of the target image file 104 designated by the user using the image compression operation device 103, and all the target images. Each of the files 104 is compressed individually by the image compression apparatus 102 at an appropriate compression rate, and the image operation apparatus 101 outputs the compressed image as a compressed image file 105. The compression rate for the image can be automatically adjusted for each image individually, and the data size of the output image as the compression result can be made appropriate.

  Further, in the image compression system of FIG. 1, the compressed image 119 compressed by the image compression unit 112 of the image compression apparatus 102 is character-recognized by the character recognition unit 113, and the reference image character recognition result data is detected by the character recognition result comparison unit 114. Since the appropriate compression rate is automatically determined using the difference rate data 122 obtained by comparing 120 and the compressed image character recognition result data 121, an appropriate image compression rate can be obtained without performing complicated learning.

  Further, in the image compression system of FIG. 1, the image compression unit 112 of the image compression apparatus 102 compresses the compression target image 109 as it is at the specified compression rate, so that the original image is divided or the divided image is divided. Can be compressed and output as a single image without being output in different formats.

  Next, the present invention will be described more specifically.

  First, the preprocessing operation for image compression will be described.

  The user inputs the reference compression rate data 115, the reference difference rate data 116, and the evaluation count data 117 to the image operation device 101 in advance using the image compression operation device 103.

  Next, the image operation device 101 outputs the reference compression rate data 115, the reference difference rate data 116, and the evaluation count data 117 to the image compression device 102.

  In this example, it is assumed that 10% is input as the reference compression rate data 115, 5% is input as the reference difference rate data 116, and 3 times are input as the evaluation count data 117.

  Next, operations of file input / output and image compression operation processing for image compression will be described.

  First, the user designates the input source of the target image file 104 using the image compression operation device 103 (step A01 in FIG. 2).

  In the present example, it is assumed that there are two images A and B in FIG. 6 as the target file 104 at the input source of the target image file 104.

  Next, the user designates the output destination of the compressed image file 105 using the image compression operation device 103 (step A02 in FIG. 2).

  Next, the image operation means 106 of the image operation apparatus 101 inputs the image A that is the first target image file 104 by the image input means 107 (step A03 in FIG. 2).

  Next, the image operation apparatus 101 sends the image A as the compression target image 109 to the image compression apparatus 102 (step A04 in FIG. 2).

  Next, the image compression apparatus 102 compresses the image A as the compression target image 109 (step A05 in FIG. 2).

  Next, the image compression apparatus 102 sends the compression result image 110 obtained by compressing the image A by 5% to the image operation apparatus 101 (step A06 in FIG. 2).

  Next, the image operation unit 106 of the image operation apparatus 101 outputs the compressed image file 105 of the image A by the image output unit 108 (step A07 in FIG. 2).

  Next, it is determined whether or not the compression processing of all target image files 104 has been completed (step A08 in FIG. 2).

  Next, the image operation means 106 of the image operation apparatus 101 inputs the image B as the next target image file 104 by the image input means 107 (step A03 in FIG. 2).

  Next, the image operation apparatus 101 sends the image B as the compression target image 109 to the image compression apparatus 102 (step A04 in FIG. 2).

  Next, the image compression apparatus 102 compresses the image B as the compression target image 109 (step A05 in FIG. 2).

  Next, the image compression apparatus 102 sends the compression result image 110 obtained by compressing the image B by 4% to the image operation apparatus 101 (step A06 in FIG. 2).

  Next, the image operation means 106 of the image operation apparatus 101 outputs the compressed image file 105 of the image B by the image output means 108 (step A07 in FIG. 2).

  Finally, since the output of the compressed image file 105 obtained by compressing the image A which is the compression result of all the target image files 104 by 5% and the compressed image file 105 obtained by compressing the image B by 4% is completed, the processing ends. (Step A08 in FIG. 2).

  Next, details of the operation of the image compression processing will be described.

  First, the image compression apparatus 102 inputs the compression target image 109 from the image operation apparatus 101.

  Next, the image to be compressed 109 is compressed by the image compression unit 112 at 10% which is the compression rate of the reference compression rate data 115, and the character recognition unit 113 recognizes characters (step B01 in FIG. 3).

  As a specific example, a reference compressed image 118 that is a compression result of image A is shown in FIG. 8, and reference image character recognition result data 120 that is a character recognition result of the reference compressed image 118 of image A is shown in FIG.

  FIG. 18 shows a reference compressed image 118 that is a compression result of the image B, and FIG. 24 shows reference image character recognition result data 120 that is a character recognition result of the reference compressed image 118 of the image B.

  Next, the image compression management unit 111 determines the first comparison compression rate, and the image compression unit 112 compresses the compression target image 109 (step B02 in FIG. 3).

  In this example, 5% which is half of 10% of the reference compression rate data 115 is determined as the first comparison compression rate, and the compression target image 109 is compressed by the image compression unit 112.

  FIG. 9 shows a compressed image 119 that is a compression result of 5% compression of the image A, and FIG. 15 shows compressed image character recognition result data 121 that is a character recognition result of the compressed image 119 obtained by compressing the image A by 5%.

  Further, FIG. 19 shows a compressed image 119 that is a compression result of 5% compression of the image B, and FIG. 25 shows compressed image character recognition result data 121 that is a character recognition result of the compressed image 119 that is 5% compressed of the image B. .

  Next, the compressed image 119 for comparison is character-recognized by the character recognition unit 113, and the character recognition result of the reference compressed image 118 is compared with the character recognition result comparison unit 104 to output the difference rate data 112 (step of FIG. 3). B03).

  As shown in FIG. 4, the difference rate data when the image A is compressed by 5% is 0.3%.

  Further, the difference rate data when the image B is compressed by 5% is 1.3%.

  Next, if the evaluation for the number of evaluation times data 117 is completed, the iterative process is finished and the process proceeds to the final step B08. If not completed, the process proceeds to the next iterative process step B05 (step B04 in FIG. 3). .

In this example, since the evaluation count data 117 is three times, the compression process is repeated three times.
The second compression process is executed.

  Next, it is compared whether the difference rate data 122 is lower than the reference difference rate data 116 (step B05 in FIG. 3).

  Next, when the difference rate data 122 is lower than the reference difference rate data 116, a comparison compression rate higher than the previous compression rate is determined, and the compression target image 109 is compressed (step B06 in FIG. 3).

  Next, when the difference rate data 122 is higher than the reference difference rate data 116, a comparison compression rate lower than the previous compression rate is determined, and the compression target image 109 is compressed (step B07 in FIG. 3).

  As shown in FIG. 4, the difference rate data when the compression processing of the image A is 5% compressed is 0.3%, which is lower than the reference difference rate data 5%. Therefore, the next compression rate is determined to be 3%. Image A is compressed.

  Further, the difference rate data when the image B is compressed by 5% is 1.3%, which is lower than the reference difference rate data of 5%. Therefore, the next compression rate is determined to be 3%, and the image B is compressed. .

  Next, the compressed image 119 for comparison is character-recognized by the character recognition unit 113, and the character recognition result of the reference compressed image 118 is compared with the character recognition result comparison unit 104 to output the difference rate data 112 (step of FIG. 3). B03).

  As shown in FIG. 4, the difference rate data when the image A is compressed by 3% is 9.3%.

  Further, the difference rate data when the image B is compressed by 3% is 9.7%.

  The third compression process is executed.

  Next, it is compared whether the difference rate data 122 is lower than the reference difference rate data 116 (step B05 in FIG. 3).

  Next, when the difference rate data 122 is lower than the reference difference rate data 116, a comparison compression rate higher than the previous compression rate is determined, and the compression target image 109 is compressed (step B06 in FIG. 3).

  Next, when the difference rate data 122 is higher than the reference difference rate data 116, a comparison compression rate lower than the previous compression rate is determined, and the compression target image 109 is compressed (step B07 in FIG. 3).

  As shown in FIG. 4, the difference rate data when the compression processing of the image A is 3% is 9.3%, which is higher than 5% of the reference difference rate data. Therefore, the next compression rate is determined to be 4%. Image A is compressed.

  Further, the difference rate data when the image B is compressed by 3% is 9.7%, which is higher than 5% of the reference difference rate data. Therefore, the next compression rate is determined as 4%, and the image B is compressed. .

  Next, the compressed image 119 for comparison is character-recognized by the character recognition unit 113, and the character recognition result of the reference compressed image 118 is compared with the character recognition result comparison unit 104 to output the difference rate data 112 (step of FIG. 3). B03).

  As shown in FIG. 4, the difference rate data when the image A is compressed by 4% is 6.2%.

  Further, the difference rate data when the image B is compressed by 4% is 4.2%.

  Finally, the compression result image 110 is determined from the comparison result of the character recognition results of the reference compressed image 118 and the final compressed image 119, and the image compression apparatus 102 outputs the compression result image 110 to the image operation apparatus 101 (FIG. 3). Step B08).

  As shown in FIG. 4, the difference rate data when the image A is compressed by 4% is 6.2%, which is higher than the reference difference rate data of 5%. Therefore, the optimum compression rate for compressing the image A is 5%. Then, an image obtained by compressing the image A shown in FIG.

  Further, the difference rate data when the image B is compressed by 4% is 4.2%, which is lower than the reference difference rate data of 5%. Therefore, the optimum compression rate for compressing the image B is determined to be 4%, and FIG. An image obtained by compressing the indicated image B by 4% is output as a compression result image 110.

  FIG. 5 shows a decision tree used to determine the compression rate of the compression result image 110 from the reference difference rate data 116 and the character recognition result difference rate data 122 of the compression target image 109 used in the present example.

  The image compression system according to the present invention includes an image operation device 101 that operates under program control, an image compression device 102 that operates according to program control, and an image compression operation device 103.

  The image operation device 101 that operates according to program control, the image compression device 102 that operates according to program control, and the image compression operation device 103 can be realized by hardware, but for causing a computer to function as these parts. It can also be realized by a computer reading a program from a recording medium and executing it.

  The image compression method according to the present invention described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3 can be realized by hardware, but the computer reads a program for causing the computer to perform the method from a recording medium and executes the program. Can also be realized.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the image compression system of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement of the whole image compression system of FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an image compression operation of the image compression system of FIG. 1 according to the present invention. It is a figure which shows the compression rate and difference rate of the character recognition result of the image which compressed the image for compression. It is a figure which shows the decision tree which determines the compression rate of a compression result image from the difference rate of a reference | standard difference rate and the character recognition result of a compression object image. It is a figure which shows the uncompressed image of the image A. FIG. It is a figure which shows the uncompressed image of the image B. FIG. It is a figure which shows the 10% compression image of the image A. It is a figure which shows the 5% compression image of the image A. It is a figure which shows the 4% compression image of the image A. It is a figure which shows the 3% compression image of the image A. FIG. It is a figure which shows the character string used as the origin of the image A of a compression object image. It is a figure which shows the result of carrying out character recognition of the uncompressed image of the image A. It is a figure which shows the result of having recognized the 10% compression image of the image A. It is a figure which shows the result of carrying out character recognition of the 5% compression image of the image A. It is a figure which shows the result of carrying out the character recognition of the 4% compression image of the image A. It is a figure which shows the result of having recognized the 3% compression image of the image A. It is a figure which shows the 10% compression image of the image B. FIG. It is a figure which shows the 5% compression image of the image B. FIG. It is a figure which shows the 4% compression image of the image B. FIG. It is a figure which shows the 3% compression image of the image B. FIG. It is a figure which shows the character string used as the origin of the image B of a compression object image. It is a figure which shows the result of carrying out the character recognition of the uncompressed image of the image B. It is a figure which shows the result of having recognized the 10% compression image of the image B. It is a figure which shows the result of having recognized the 5% compression image of the image B. It is a figure which shows the result of having recognized the 4% compression image of the image B as a character. It is a figure which shows the result of having recognized the 3% compression image of the image B as a character.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 Image operation apparatus 102 Image compression apparatus 103 Image compression operation apparatus 104 Target image file 105 Compressed image file 106 Image operation means 107 Image input means 108 Image output means 109 Compression target image 110 Compression result image 111 Image compression management means 112 Image compression means 113 Character recognition means 114 Character recognition result comparison means 115 Reference compression rate data 116 Reference difference rate data 117 Evaluation frequency data 118 Reference compressed image 119 Compressed image 120 Reference image character recognition data 121 Compressed image character recognition data 122 Difference rate data 201 Compression target Image 202 Number of characters 203 Compression rate 204 Number of different characters 205 Difference rate

Claims (9)

An image operation device that operates by program control, an image compression device that operates by program control, and an image compression operation device in which a user designates an input source of a target image file and an output destination of a compressed image file and operates image compression processing The image compression device individually recognizes a compressed image compressed using the reference compression rate data and the evaluation count data for each compression target image input from the image manipulating device, and generates a reference dissimilarity rate data. An image compression system that automatically determines an appropriate compression ratio using the reference image character recognition result data and the compressed image character recognition result data, and outputs a compressed compression result image. 2. The image compression system according to claim 1, wherein the image compression device automatically determines an appropriate compression rate using difference rate data obtained by comparing the reference image character recognition result data and the compressed image character recognition result data. An image compression system characterized by this. An image operation device that operates by program control, an image compression device that operates by program control, and an image compression operation device in which a user designates an input source of a target image file and an output destination of a compressed image file and operates image compression processing The image manipulation device inputs all target image files that are input sources of the target image file designated by the user with the image compression manipulation device, and individually compresses each target image file individually. An image compression system in which an image is automatically compressed by an apparatus at an appropriate compression rate, and an image resulting from the compression is output as a compressed image file by an image manipulation apparatus. An image operation device that operates by program control, an image compression device that operates by program control, and an image compression operation device in which a user designates an input source of a target image file and an output destination of a compressed image file and operates image compression processing And the image compression apparatus compresses the image to be compressed as it is at a designated compression rate. For each compression target image, the compressed image compressed using the reference compression rate data and the evaluation count data is recognized, and the reference difference rate data, the reference image character recognition result data, and the compressed image character recognition result data are used. An image compression method characterized by automatically determining an appropriate compression ratio and outputting a compressed compression result image. 6. The image compression method according to claim 5, wherein an appropriate compression rate is automatically determined using difference rate data obtained by comparing the reference image character recognition result data and the compressed image character recognition result data. Method. All the target image files that are the input source of the target image file specified by the user are input, and each target image file is individually compressed at an appropriate compression rate, and the compressed image is compressed. An image compression method for outputting as an image file. An image compression program for causing a computer to perform the image compression method according to any one of claims 5 to 7. A computer-readable recording medium on which the image compression program according to claim 8 is recorded.

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