JP2012205004A - Display control device, image processing apparatus, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten time for setting when a user sets setup items on a setup screen.SOLUTION: A display control device performs the steps of: obtaining at least either one of document physical information representing a physical characteristic of a document detected in association with reading by an image reading part and image characteristic information representing a characteristic of an image on the document obtained by reading by the image reading part; performing at least either one of first estimation and second estimation based on at least either one of the obtained document physical information and image characteristic information, where the first estimation is to estimate a setup item requiring no setup by a user when executing processing from setup items to be set in executing the processing including reading processing and where the second estimation is to estimate an unnecessary choice from a plurality of choices of setup items that have the plurality of choices and are set by selecting any of the choices in executing the processing; and controlling so that at least either one of the estimated unnecessary setup items and unnecessary choice is not displayed on a setup screen used for setting setup items in executing the processing.

Description

  The present invention relates to a display control device, an image processing device, and a program.

  In Patent Document 1, a program creation device selects a parameter to be referenced and changed by an image processing device from a parameter list used in creating an image processing program, and refers to and sets a parameter. A user screen is created, user screen information necessary for reconstructing the created user screen on the display screen of the image processing device is transferred to the image processing device, and the image processing device uses the user screen information based on the user screen information. A parameter setting method is disclosed in which a screen is reconfigured on a display unit, and parameters are set using a user screen by an operation from an input unit.

  Patent Document 2 discloses an image analysis unit that analyzes document image data and extracts document characteristic values, a user interface unit that performs settings related to processing and finishing of a document image for a document to be printed, and various types of settings. Finished image generation unit that generates a finished image that represents the result of processing and finishing processing on the original image based on the function, preview image display unit that presents the finished image generated by the finished image generation unit, and input of the function name A keyword input unit, wherein the user interface unit visualizes and presents only a function setting area capable of setting a function related to a keyword specified by the user to the user. A forming apparatus is disclosed.

  In Patent Document 3, the characteristic information of the logged-in user is acquired, characteristic information indicating the characteristic of the document information is extracted from the document information to be processed, and a history including the function used in the job is stored in the storage unit as a record. Among the stored job history information records, at least a part of the user characteristic information indicated by the user ID included in the record matches at least a part of the acquired characteristic information, and the history information In order to narrow down records in which at least a part of the characteristic information of the included document information matches at least a part of the characteristic information of the extracted document information to be processed, and to use the function included in the record, Display to specify the specified record, and based on the record specified based on the display, it is included in the record for the document information to be processed And executes a job by using the that function, the output apparatus is disclosed for saving the history of the job.

JP 2002-133392 A JP 2007-150881 A JP 2009-253771 A

  The present invention obtains original physical information and image feature information, estimates unnecessary setting items and unnecessary options, and is set by the user on the setting screen as compared with the case where there is no configuration not displayed on the setting screen. It is an object of the present invention to obtain a display control device, an image processing device, and a program that can reduce the time required for setting items.

  The display control apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention is obtained by reading the original physical information indicating the physical characteristics of the original detected by the reading means for reading the image on the original and the reading means. An acquisition unit that acquires at least one of image feature information indicating the characteristics of the image on the document, and an image on the document based on at least one of the document physical information and the image feature information acquired by the acquisition unit. A first estimation for estimating a setting item that does not require setting by a user when executing the process from a setting item set when executing a process including a reading process, and a plurality of options; and At least one of the second estimations for estimating an unnecessary option from the plurality of options of setting items set by selecting any of the options when executing the process Display control means for performing control so that at least one of the estimated unnecessary setting item and unnecessary option is not displayed on a setting screen for setting the setting item when executing the processing, ing.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the display control device according to the first aspect, when there are a plurality of originals, at least one of the original physical information and the image feature information is read by reading one of the plurality of originals. And further comprising a selection means for selecting a first acquisition mode for acquiring and a second acquisition mode for reading each of the plurality of sheets and acquiring at least one of the original physical information and the image feature information. The means acquires at least one of the original physical information and the image feature information according to the selected mode.

  An image processing apparatus according to a third aspect of the present invention is controlled by the display control apparatus according to the first or second aspect, reading means for reading an image on the original, and the display control apparatus, and displays the setting screen. Display means, setting means for setting the setting items displayed on the setting screen, and execution means for executing the processing according to the setting by the setting means.

  The invention according to claim 4 is obtained by reading a computer with original physical information indicating physical characteristics of the original detected by the reading means for reading an image on the original and reading with the reading means. An acquisition unit that acquires at least one of image feature information indicating a feature of an image on the document, and an image on the document is read based on at least one of the document physical information and the image feature information acquired by the acquisition unit A first estimation for estimating a setting item that does not require setting by a user when executing the process from a setting item set when executing a process including a reading process, and a plurality of options, and At least one of second estimations for estimating an unnecessary option from the plurality of options of setting items set by selecting one of the options when executing the process And at least one of the estimated unnecessary setting items and unnecessary options is made to function as a display control means for controlling so as not to be displayed on the setting screen for setting the setting items when executing the processing. It is a program for.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the time required for setting when the user sets the setting item on the setting screen as compared with the case where the present configuration is not provided.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to control the display of the setting screen by performing reading according to the user's wishes.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the time required for the setting when the user sets the setting item on the setting screen as compared with the case where the present configuration is not provided.

  According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the time required for setting when the user sets the setting item on the setting screen as compared with the case where the present configuration is not provided.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the image processing apparatus which concerns on embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of a setting unnecessary item estimation corresponding table. It is a figure which shows an example of an initial setting screen. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the display control processing routine of a setting screen. It is a figure which shows an example of a display state when a reading button is displayed on the initial setting screen. It is a figure which shows an example of the setting screen which made the setting unnecessary item non-display. It is a figure which shows an example of a display state when two types of reading buttons are displayed on the initial setting screen.

  Hereinafter, an example of an embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an image processing apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment. The image processing apparatus 10 includes an apparatus control unit 12, an image reading unit 14, an image forming unit 16, an image processing unit 18, a document number counter 20, a document size detection unit 22, a document orientation detection unit 24, a document color detection unit 26, an image. An analysis unit 28, a storage unit 30, and an operation panel 32 are provided, and these are connected to each other via a bus 34.

  The device control unit 12 controls the operation of each unit of the image processing device 10. The device control unit 12 includes a microcomputer or the like, and is provided with a nonvolatile storage unit 12C including a CPU 12A, a memory 12B, an HDD (Hard Disk Drive), a flash memory, and the like. The storage unit 12C displays a setting screen for setting setting items for executing various processes (for example, a copy process and a scan process) of the image processing apparatus 10 for the user of the image processing apparatus 10. A display control processing routine program for controlling the screen to be displayed on 32A and an operating system (OS) program that functions as a platform for executing various programs are stored.

  The image reading unit 14 reads an image on a document conveyed to the image reading position. The image processing apparatus 10 of the present embodiment is provided with an automatic document feeder (not shown), and is configured so that the documents set in the automatic document feeder are conveyed one by one to the image reading position. ing. The image reading unit 14 includes a reading optical system and a document table (not shown). The image reading unit 14 displays an image recorded on a document sent from the automatic document feeding unit or a document placed on the document table by a user. An analog image signal is obtained by photoelectrically reading with a reading optical system, and the analog image signal is converted to digital to generate read image data representing an image on a document. The read image data is stored in the image data storage area of the storage unit 30. The image reading unit 14 may obtain black and white read image data. However, in this embodiment, the image reading unit 14 can read the image on the original and generate read image data of each color of RGB. It shall have an optical system.

  In the present embodiment, reading an image on a document to obtain read image data is referred to as “reading”. The image on the document is read to obtain read image data. Processing for generating image data desired by the user by performing processing is called “scanning”, and will be described separately from reading.

  The image forming unit 16 forms an image represented by the input image data on a recording sheet. When the image processing apparatus 10 performs copy processing, the image forming unit 16 performs image processing on the read image data read by the image reading unit 14, and the image data obtained by performing the image processing is processed. The image is input to the image forming unit 16 to form an image.

  The image processing unit 18 reads the read image data obtained by reading by the image reading unit 14 from the storage unit 30 and performs various image processing. The image processing executed by the image processing unit 18 includes image processing that is predetermined according to the processing to be executed, but is executed according to the setting contents of the setting items set on the operation panel 32 by the user. There is also image processing.

  Each of the document number counter 20, the document size detection unit 22, the document orientation detection unit 24, and the document color detection unit 26 indicates physical characteristics of the document as the image reading unit 14 reads an image on the document. This is means for detecting physical document information.

  The document number counter 20 counts the number of documents conveyed from the automatic document feeder to the image reading position, and outputs information indicating the number of documents as a result of the counting.

  The document size detection unit 22 includes a plurality of optical sensors provided in a conveyance path from the automatic document feeding unit to the image reading position, and when reading an image on a document conveyed from the automatic document feeding unit, By detecting the edge of the document to be read by the optical sensor, the size of the document is detected and information on the detected size is output. Here, it may be determined whether the size of the document is a fixed size or an atypical size, and the determination result is output.

  The document orientation detection unit 24 includes a plurality of optical sensors provided in the conveyance path from the automatic document feeder to the image reading position, and detects the short side direction and the long side direction of the document by the optical sensor. Then, it detects whether the original is in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction with respect to the conveyance direction, and outputs the detected direction information. Note that the sensor of the document size detection unit 22 may also be used as the sensor of the document orientation detection unit 24.

  The document color detection unit 26 detects the color of the document (the color of the document sheet itself, that is, the background color), and outputs the detected color information of the document. It may be detected from the read image data.

  It should be noted that the information on the detected number of documents, document size, document orientation, and document color is a specific example of information indicating physical characteristics of the document, and is not limited thereto.

  The image analysis unit 28 analyzes the read image data, detects and outputs image feature information indicating the feature of the image on the document. The image feature information includes, for example, information indicating whether it is a monochrome image or a color image, information indicating image attributes (photos, maps, characters, etc.), and the size of characters when the images include characters. Information, information indicating whether double-sided printing or single-sided printing, whether or not a plurality of images (images of a plurality of pages) are reduced and arranged into one image (one page) (hereinafter also referred to as Nup image). There is information to show.

  Each piece of image feature information is derived using a known technique. For example, the information indicating whether the image is a monochrome (black and white) image or a color image, for example, if the image includes pixels with a number of colors equal to or greater than a threshold value, the information indicating the color is generated, If the color pixel is less than the threshold value, it may be determined that the pixel is monochrome, and information indicating monochrome may be generated. As for attribute information, for example, the attribute may be determined based on various feature amounts such as an image density distribution. In addition, information indicating whether or not a plurality of images (images of a plurality of pages) are reduced and arranged to be combined into one image (one page) can be obtained by, for example, calculating a cluster of high-density images from the density distribution of the images. You may make it determine from the arrangement | positioning state extracted.

  The storage unit 30 is configured by, for example, an HDD or a flash memory, and includes a storage area for storing various image data including read image data. The storage unit 30 also stores in advance a setting unnecessary item estimation correspondence table (hereinafter referred to as a correspondence table) used when estimating setting unnecessary items described later.

  Here, the setting unnecessary items will be described. The image processing apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment is configured so that various setting items can be set so that an output result desired by the user can be obtained and the image processing is executed. When a user uses a function (processing) such as copying or scanning, various setting items are set and used. However, if the image processing apparatus 10 has multiple functions, the setting item is Wide range.

  In the present embodiment, the setting screen for setting the setting item is based on at least one of the document physical information indicating the physical characteristics of the document and the image feature information indicating the characteristics of the image on the document. When the display is controlled and functions such as copying and scanning are executed, the setting items determined to be unnecessary to be set by the user are not displayed on the setting screen. In the present embodiment, setting items that do not require setting by the user are referred to as “setting unnecessary items”.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of the correspondence table. In this correspondence table, setting-unnecessary items are stored in association with at least one of document physical information and image feature information. In the present embodiment, the setting unnecessary items are determined with reference to the correspondence table. Details will be described later.

  The storage unit 30 also stores a setting table (not shown) that stores information on setting contents of setting items in association with at least one of document physical information and image feature information and setting items. The setting contents of the setting items stored in the setting table are adopted as the setting contents of the setting unnecessary items, and are used for copying and scanning processing. That is, the setting unnecessary item is estimated as an item that does not require setting (setting operation) by the user, but does not necessarily mean that the setting content itself of the setting item is unnecessary in actual processing. . In the present embodiment, copy processing and scan processing are executed assuming that the setting contents registered in the setting table are set for the setting unnecessary items. Details will be described later.

  The operation panel 32 is provided with a display unit 32A made up of an LCD or the like, and an operation receiving unit 32B made up of a touch panel or a numeric keypad superimposed on the display unit 32A and receiving an operation by a user. The user sets setting items via the operation panel 32.

  In addition to the above components, an information processing apparatus such as a PC (Personal Computer) and a network communication control unit for transmitting and receiving information via a network cable and a computer network (not shown) are provided. In FIG.

  Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described. Here, a case where copy processing is executed will be described as an example.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of an initial state setting screen 40 (hereinafter referred to as an initial setting screen) when executing copy processing. The initial setting screen 40 is displayed on the operation panel 32 of the image processing apparatus 10. The initial setting screen 40 includes a setting-unnecessary item estimation button 42 and a setting unit 44 on which buttons for each setting item and each setting item are displayed. For example, the setting item “magnification setting” has four options “100%”, “automatic”, “70%”, and “141%”, and buttons for each option are displayed so that the user can select them. ing. The user presses one of a plurality of option buttons to select the pressed option and set a setting item. Here, only setting items that each have a plurality of choices and set the setting contents (setting values) by selecting one of the plurality of choices are shown, but the user directly inputs a numerical value. Setting items to be set may be included.

  When the user does not press the setting unnecessary item estimation button 42, the user sets each setting item displayed on the initial setting screen 40. When the user presses the setting unnecessary item estimation button 42, the setting screen display control processing routine shown in FIG. 4 is executed.

  In step 100, a read button is displayed on the initial setting screen 40. FIG. 5 shows an example of a display state when the reading button is displayed. A reading button 48 is arranged on the window 46 displaying the message “Estimate items that do not need to be set. Set the document and press the reading button.” The user sets a document on the automatic document feeder and presses the reading button 48.

  In step 102, it is determined whether or not the user has pressed the reading button 48. If it is determined in step 102 that the reading button 48 has been pressed, the process proceeds to step 104.

  In step 104, the image reading unit 14 is controlled to start a document reading operation. If the image reading unit 14 is provided with a double-side reading function, both sides of the document are read. At this time, document physical information and image feature information are detected by the document number counter 20, the document size detection unit 22, the document orientation detection unit 24, the document color detection unit 26, and the image analysis unit 28 along with the reading operation. To control. In this reading operation, when the image processing apparatus 10 is configured to automatically read both sides, both sides of the document are read. The read image data obtained by this reading operation is stored in the storage unit 30 without being subjected to any image processing other than being converted into a digital signal by A / D conversion.

  In step 106, document physical information is acquired from each of the document number counter 20, the document size detection unit 22, the document orientation detection unit 24, and the document color detection unit 26.

  In step 108, image feature information is acquired from the image analysis unit 28. Here, an example in which document physical information is acquired after image feature information has been described, but the acquisition order is not particularly limited.

  In step 110, setting unnecessary items are estimated. Specifically, the setting unnecessary items are estimated with reference to the correspondence table illustrated in FIG. For example, when image feature information indicating “monochrome” is included in the image feature information, “color (color mode in FIG. 3)” is estimated as a setting-unnecessary item based on the correspondence table. This is because the original image is a black and white image, and the setting value can be set to “black and white” without the user having to set the color mode.

  Similarly, for example, when image feature information indicating that a character is small is included, setting items “reduction” and “Nup” are estimated as setting unnecessary items. Here, “Nup” is a setting item when a plurality of images (images of a plurality of pages) are collectively output as one image (one page). For example, in this setting item, for example, settings are made such that two pages are combined into one page, or four pages are combined into one page. Therefore, when “Nup” is executed, the reduction process is executed.

  In addition, since it is generally widely performed to copy one A4 size original document without performing image processing such as reduction or enlargement, the original physical information is that the original size is A4 size and the number of copies is one. If it indicates that there is only one original, setting items other than the number of output sheets are estimated to be setting unnecessary items.

  In addition, “Nup” is set as an unnecessary item for original physical information indicating that the number of originals is plural and the original size is A3. When the size of the document is not a standard size but an atypical size, a setting item “paper size” (size of a paper on which an image is formed) is estimated as a setting-unnecessary item. If the document physical information indicates a mix size (when a plurality of documents exist and different document sizes are detected), each of enlargement / reduction, duplex, rotation, and Nup is set as an unnecessary setting item. Presumed.

  If the document physical information includes information indicating the orientation of the document, the paper orientation (direction with respect to the conveyance direction of the paper on which the image is formed) is estimated as an unnecessary setting item. Here, if any orientation is detected by the document orientation detection unit 24, “paper orientation” is estimated as an unnecessary setting item. In this case, the difference between the length in the long side direction of the document and the length in the short side direction is small and the orientation of the document is not detected, or there are a plurality of documents and different orientations are mixed, When a plurality of document orientations are detected, the “paper orientation” setting item is not estimated to be a setting unnecessary item.

  If any document color is included in the document physical information, the setting item of “document color” is estimated as a setting unnecessary item. For example, in the case of a document in which a plurality of ground colors are mixed, since the color cannot be specified as one color, the setting item of the document color may not be estimated as a setting unnecessary item.

  For example, when the image feature information includes image feature information indicating that the character is large, the setting item “enlarged” is estimated as the setting-unnecessary item. For example, when image feature information indicating “color” is included in the image feature information, “color (color mode in FIG. 3)” is estimated as a setting-unnecessary item based on the correspondence table.

  If the image feature information includes image feature information indicating that the attribute of the image is a photograph or a map, a setting item “original type” is estimated as an unnecessary setting item.

  If the image feature information includes image feature information indicating double-sided printing, the setting item “double-sided” is estimated as an unnecessary setting item. If the image feature information includes image feature information indicating that it is a Nup image, the setting item “Nup” is estimated as a setting-unnecessary item.

  Further, when the number of documents is one and the attribute information of the image is “photograph”, setting items other than the setting items of “number of output sheets” and “enlargement / reduction” are estimated as setting unnecessary items. When the size of the document is “atypical” and the image of the document is “color” and “single-sided printing”, “double-sided printing” is estimated as an unnecessary setting item.

  Note that the estimation example described above and the correspondence table in FIG. 2 are examples, and are not limited thereto. Further, when there are a plurality of originals, the image feature information may be different for each original. In this case, it may be estimated using the mode value among the image feature information obtained by reading each of a plurality of originals, or information obtained by reading the first original is used. May be. Alternatively, a priority may be provided for each piece of image feature information, and information having a higher priority than information having a lower priority may be used. For example, when color originals and black and white originals are mixed, image feature information indicating color is preferentially used for estimation.

  After the setting unnecessary items are estimated in step 110, the display of the setting screen is changed in step 112 so that the estimated setting unnecessary items are not displayed.

  FIG. 6 shows an example of a setting screen 50 in which setting unnecessary items are hidden. Here, the setting item 54 “color mode” shown in FIG. 3 is estimated as an unnecessary setting item, and the setting unit 54 in which the setting item “color mode” is hidden is displayed. The setting screen 50 is provided with a setting unnecessary item estimation cancel button 52 (hereinafter referred to as a cancel button). The user can return the display to the initial setting screen 40 by pressing the release button 52.

  In step 114, it is determined whether or not the release button 52 has been pressed. If it is determined that the release button 52 has been pressed, control is performed so that the initial setting screen 40 is displayed in step 118. If it is determined in step 114 that the release button 52 is not pressed, step 116 is not performed and the display of the changed setting screen 50 is continued.

  When the setting by the user is completed on the setting screen, the device control unit 12 performs control so that processing according to the setting content of each setting item is performed. For example, in the case of copy processing, control is performed so that the image processing unit 18 performs image processing according to the setting content of each setting item, and the image forming unit 16 forms an image. In the case of scan processing, the image processing unit 18 is controlled to perform image processing according to the setting content of each setting item. For the setting items that are not displayed on the setting screen and are not set by the user, the setting contents (setting values) of the setting unnecessary items are acquired from the setting table stored in the storage unit 30, and according to the setting contents Control to be processed.

  For example, in the example described above, if the image feature information includes image feature information indicating that the document image is monochrome, the setting item “color mode” is estimated as a setting-unnecessary item. Display. For this setting item “color mode”, a setting value (for example, a value indicating “monochrome” or “monochrome”) stored in the setting table in association with the image feature information “monochrome” and the setting item “color mode”. Is processed as a setting value of the color mode setting item.

  In the above embodiment, an example has been described in which both the original physical information and the image feature information are acquired and the setting unnecessary items are estimated. However, either the original physical information or the image feature information is acquired and set. You may make it determine an unnecessary item.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the document number counter 20, the document size detection unit 22, the document orientation detection unit 24, and the document color detection unit 26 are provided has been described as an example. The image analysis unit 28 may be provided, or the image analysis unit 28 may not be provided, and the document number counter 20, the document size detection unit 22, the document orientation detection unit 24, and the document color may be provided. It is good also as a structure in which at least 1 of the detection part 26 is provided.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, an example of estimating the setting unnecessary items has been described. However, not only the setting unnecessary items but also a plurality of options and the plurality of options when executing copy processing (or scan processing). Unnecessary options may be estimated from the plurality of options of the setting items set by selecting one of the options. For example, in the above example, for the setting item “color mode”, in FIG. 2, in principle, four options of “color”, “monochrome”, “two colors”, and “single color” can be selected. If the information includes image information indicating that the image on the document is color (or not monochrome), for example, the option “black and white” is estimated as an unnecessary option (hereinafter referred to as an unnecessary option). Then, control may be performed so that the option “black and white” is not displayed on the setting screen. In the correspondence table, unnecessary options may be registered in advance and estimated by referring to the correspondence table.

  Further, it is possible to estimate the unnecessary options without estimating the setting unnecessary items and control the options so that they are not displayed on the setting screen.

  Further, in the above embodiment, the case of the copy process has been described, but display control may be performed in the same manner in the case of the scan process. In the case of scan processing, setting items for determining the content of image processing for the scanned image data are displayed on the setting screen. The setting screen is used by estimating unnecessary setting items and unnecessary options in these setting items. It is sufficient to control the display.

  Note that image processing is configured to perform provisional reading (provisionally reading a document before reading the document in full reading) and then performing full reading (actually reading the document after provisional reading). There is also a device. In this case, at the time of provisional reading, at least one of the document physical information and the image feature information is acquired, and at least one of the setting unnecessary items and unnecessary options is estimated, and the display of the setting screen is controlled. Good.

  In the case of an apparatus that does not perform provisional reading, during normal reading, at least one of original physical information and image feature information is acquired, and at least one of unnecessary setting items and unnecessary options is estimated, and a setting screen is displayed. The display may be controlled.

  Further, when the number of documents is large, it takes time until the display of the setting screen is changed. Therefore, when there are a plurality of documents, when the setting unnecessary item estimation button 42 is pressed for a user who desires to change the setting screen by reading the first document, FIG. As shown in FIG. 7, the original physical information and the image feature information are obtained by the single-sheet reading button 48A for acquiring the original physical information and the image characteristic information by the first original reading operation and the original reading operation of all the originals. When the setting screen is changed by estimating the unnecessary setting items, either one of the reading buttons 48B for obtaining the image may be displayed.

  Thus, for example, when the user presses the all document reading button 48B in a state where a plurality of documents are set, all the documents are read and processed in the same manner as described above. In addition, when the user presses the first sheet reading button 48A in a state where a plurality of originals are set, the first original is read, and is detected as the first original is read. Obtaining at least one of the original physical information and the image feature information of the image read from the original, estimating at least one of the setting unnecessary item and the unnecessary option, and at least one of the estimated setting unnecessary item and the unnecessary option Is controlled so that is not displayed on the setting screen. At this time, reading of other originals may be temporarily stopped until the setting screen is changed. However, in the case of the image processing apparatus 10 that does not perform temporary reading, the original by reading the first original is read. In parallel with the acquisition of physical information and image feature information and the display control of the setting screen, the remaining document reading operation may be controlled. As a result, the copy process and the scan process are completed quickly.

  In the above embodiment, the image processing apparatus 10 provided with both the image reading unit 14 and the image forming unit 16 has been described as an example. However, the image processing apparatus is not provided with the image forming unit 16. May be. In this case, the copy process is not executed, but the scan process can be executed.

10 Image Processing Device 12 Device Control Unit 12A CPU
12B Memory 12C Storage unit 14 Image reading unit 16 Image forming unit 18 Image processing unit 20 Document number counter 22 Document size detection unit 24 Document orientation detection unit 26 Document color detection unit 28 Image analysis unit 30 Storage unit 32 Operation panel 32B Operation reception unit 32A Display unit 40 Initial setting screen 50 Setting screen after display change

Claims (4)

Original physical information indicating physical characteristics of the original detected as a result of reading by the reading means for reading an image on the original, and an image indicating characteristics of the image on the original obtained by reading by the reading means Obtaining means for obtaining at least one of the feature information;
When executing the process from setting items set when executing a process including a reading process of reading an image on the original based on at least one of the original physical information and the image feature information acquired by the acquisition unit A first estimation that estimates a setting item that does not need to be set by the user, and a setting item that has a plurality of options and that is set by selecting one of the options when executing the process At least one of second estimations for estimating an unnecessary option from the plurality of options is performed, and at least one of the estimated unnecessary setting item and the unnecessary option sets a setting item for executing the processing Display control means for controlling so as not to be displayed on the setting screen for
A display control device. When there are a plurality of documents, a first acquisition mode for reading at least one of the document physical information and the image feature information by reading one of the plurality of documents, and reading each of the plurality of the documents A selection means for selecting a second acquisition mode for acquiring at least one of the document physical information and the image feature information;
The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires at least one of the document physical information and the image feature information according to the selected mode. The display control device according to claim 1 or 2,
Reading means for reading an image on the original;
Display means controlled by the display control device to display the setting screen;
Setting means for setting the setting items displayed on the setting screen;
Execution means for executing the processing according to the setting by the setting means;
An image processing apparatus. Computer
Original physical information indicating physical characteristics of the original detected as a result of reading by the reading means for reading an image on the original, and an image indicating characteristics of the image on the original obtained by reading by the reading means When executing processing including reading processing for reading an image on a document based on at least one of the document physical information and the image feature information acquired by the acquisition unit and acquiring at least one of the feature information A first estimation for estimating a setting item that does not need to be set by a user when executing the process from the setting item to be set, and a plurality of options, and any of the options when executing the process Estimating at least one of the second estimations for estimating an unnecessary option from the plurality of options of the setting item set by selecting A program for functioning as display control means for controlling so that at least one of a setting item and an unnecessary option is not displayed on a setting screen for setting a setting item when executing the processing.

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