Facsimile and static presentation processing – Static presentation processing – Detail of image placement or content
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-09
2001-11-06
Evans, Arthur G. (Department: 2622)
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Static presentation processing
Detail of image placement or content
Reexamination Certificate
active
06313923
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, and particularly to an image processing apparatus in which, based on digital image data of an image recorded on a recording medium, digital image data of an image to be recorded on a recording material is prepared.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, there has been known image reading technique in which light is irradiated on an image recorded on a photographic film and a reading sensor such as a CCD receives the light transmitted through the image to thereby allow photoelectric reading of the image.
In such image reading technique, for example, when only a partial image region of an image is read (when so-called cropping of an image for cropping is effected), generally, only light transmitted through the partial image region is received by a reading sensor by using a dedicated carrier or mask.
However, one carrier or mask is used to only allow cropping of an image to one fixed size. For this reason, when cropping of an image to a plurality of sizes is effected, a dedicated carrier or mask is required for each size, and therefore, it is necessary to provide a plurality of carriers or masks.
As a result, the number of parts of an apparatus for reading an image increases, and therefore, the cost of the apparatus increases.
Further, exchange of a carrier or mask is required each time the size of an image for cropping is varied. For this reason, an operator's operation at the time of cropping becomes very complicated and a great deal of labor is thereby imposed on the operator.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has been devised to solve the above-described drawbacks and an object thereof is to provide an image processing apparatus which can improve operability during cropping of an image and also can reduce the number of parts required.
In order to achieve the above-described object, there is provided an image processing apparatus of a first aspect of the present invention, in which, based on digital image data of an image recorded on a recording medium, digital image data of an image to be recorded onto a recording material is prepared, comprising: information display means which displays information; display control means which allows display, on the information display means, of an image based on digital image data of the image recorded on the recording medium and a region for extracting, from the image recorded on the recording medium, the image to be recorded onto the recording material; region designation means for designating a position and a size of the region; and determination means which determines the image to be recorded onto the recording material based on the region whose position and size are designated by the region designation means.
An image processing apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention is characterized, in the image processing apparatus of the first aspect of the present invention, by further comprising: magnification designating means for designating a display magnification of an image displayed on the information display means, wherein, when a display magnification is designated by the magnification designating means, on the basis of the designated display magnification, the display control means enlarges or reduces the image displayed on the information display means while the region displayed on the information display means remains fixed.
An image processing apparatus according to a third aspect of the present invention is characterized, in the image processing apparatus of the first aspect of the present invention, by further comprising: rotation instruction means for giving an instruction for rotation, at an arbitrary angle, of an image displayed on the information display means, wherein, based on the instruction by the rotation instruction means, the display control means rotates at an arbitrary angle the image displayed on the information display means, and the determination means determines, based on the region and on the image which has been rotated based on the instruction, the image to be recorded onto the recording material.
An image processing apparatus according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is characterized, in the image processing apparatus of the third aspect of the present invention, by that, when the rotation based on the instruction is effected, the display control means rotates the image displayed on the information display means while the region displayed on the information display means remains fixed.
An image processing apparatus according to a fifth aspect of the present invention is characterized, in the image processing apparatus of the third or fourth aspect of the present invention, by that, during the rotation based on the rotation instruction, the display control means allows display of a simple image which indicates at least orientation of the image.
An image processing apparatus according to a sixth aspect of the present invention is characterized, in the image processing apparatus of any one of the third, fourth, and fifth aspects of the present invention, by that the rotation instruction means includes 90°-rotation instruction means for giving an instruction for rotation by 90° of the image displayed on the information display means.
An image processing apparatus according to a seventh aspect of the present invention is characterized, in the image processing apparatus of any one of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth aspects of the present invention, by that the rotation instruction means includes reference-line indicating means for indicating a rotation reference line as a reference for rotation of an image, and based on the rotation reference line indicated by the reference-line indicating means, the display control means rotates the image displayed on the information display means.
An image processing apparatus according to an eighth aspect of the present invention is characterized, in the image processing apparatus of any one of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth aspects of the present invention, by further comprising: reference-line extraction means which, when rotation of an image is indicated by the rotation instruction means, extracts a rotation reference line as a reference for rotation of the image from the image displayed on the information display means, wherein the display control means rotates the image displayed on the information display means based on the rotation reference line extracted by the reference-line extraction means.
An image processing apparatus according to a ninth aspect of the present invention is characterized, in the image processing apparatus of any one of the first to eighth aspects of the present invention, by further comprising: selection means which determines whether an image in a region with no image to be recorded on the recording material being included is to be displayed or not, wherein the display control means displays an image on the information display means based on a display form selected by the selection means.
The image processing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention is that in which digital image data of an image recorded on a recording medium such as a photographic film or CD-R (recordable additional compact disk) is used to prepare digital image data of an image (image to be outputted) to be recorded on the recording material.
In such an image processing apparatus, the display control means allows an image based on digital image data of the image recorded on the recording medium and a region for extracting an image to be outputted from the image to be displayed on the information display means (display). At this time, a closing line which shows a border line of the region may be indicated or points which show four corners of the region may also be indicated. Alternatively, the region may also be displayed by varying color or density between the inside and outside of the region.
An operator designates the position and size of the region by the region de
Sugahara Koichi
Takanashi Teruo
Tsuji Hirokazu
Evans Arthur G.
Fuji Photo Film Co. , Ltd.
Sughrue Mion Zinn Macpeak & Seas, PLLC
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