Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an accepting unit, a recognizing unit, and a selecting unit. The accepting unit accepts character information about a character image in a character region in an image. The recognizing unit performs character recognition on the character image in the character region. The selecting unit selects a character recognition result which matches the character information accepted by the accepting unit, from multiple character recognition results that are obtained by the recognizing unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit and a selecting unit. The receiving unit receives an image of a document. The selecting unit selects a character recognition result in a first frame of the document from plural character recognition candidates in the first frame on the basis of definition information defining a relationship between a character string in the first frame of the document and a character string in a second frame of the document different from the first frame.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. A memory stores therein plural items of image information. A selector selects a specific item of image information from among the plural items of image information as a selected item of image information. A specifying unit specifies, from among the plural items of image information, an item of image information indicating an image which has been captured on an identical date as a date on which an image indicated by the selected item of image information has been captured. A subject extracting unit extracts information concerning a subject of an item of image information. A destination setting unit sets a sending destination corresponding to information concerning a subject of an item of image information extracted by the subject extracting unit as a destination of the item of image information specified by the specifying unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, an interpretation unit, and a correction unit. The storage unit stores plural correction instructions. The interpretation unit interprets a correction instruction stored in the storage unit. The correction unit corrects a recognized character string in accordance with the correction instruction interpreted by the interpretation unit. The interpretation unit determines the type of the correction instruction, and extracts a first character string including one or more characters serving as a target of the correction instruction and a second character string obtained by performing conversion of a part of or whole the first character string, in accordance with the type of the correction instruction. The correction unit, in a case where the first character string exists in the recognized character string, converts a part of or whole the first character string within the recognized character string into the second character string.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an extraction unit that extracts a first image and a second image similar to the first image, in a first resolution; and a generation unit that generates an image in a second resolution based on the respective images extracted by the extraction unit and phases of the respective images calculated with precision higher than one pixel in the first resolution.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a document receiving unit that receives a document containing at least one page, wherein positions of document components of a page of the at least one page are fixed within the page; a page dividing unit that divides the document received by the document receiving unit into at least one page; a page heading determining unit that determines a heading of a page of the at least one page divided by the page dividing unit based on components included in the page; and a processing unit that assigns the heading determined by the page heading determining unit to the page divided by the page dividing unit as first level outline information of the page.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a network creating unit that creates a network in which respective characters of plural character recognition results are represented as nodes, and in which nodes of adjacent character images are connected with a link, a first determining unit that determines a first candidate boundary in the network, a second determining unit that determines a second candidate boundary different from the first candidate boundary in the network, and an extracting unit that extracts, as to-be-searched objects, plural candidate character strings from a set of candidate character strings each formed of nodes between the first candidate boundary and the second candidate boundary.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an accepting unit, a recognizing unit, and a selecting unit. The accepting unit accepts character information about a character image in a character region in an image. The recognizing unit performs character recognition on the character image in the character region. The selecting unit selects a character recognition result which matches the character information accepted by the accepting unit, from multiple character recognition results that are obtained by the recognizing unit.

Abstract: An image processor includes an image accepting unit, an image moving amount accepting unit, an initial estimated image generating unit, an estimated image moving and reducing unit, a unit extracting a difference between an image processed by the moving and reducing unit and the images accepted by the image accepting unit, a unit moving and enlarging, in the opposite direction of the moving and reducing unit, an image processed by the difference extracting unit, a unit adding and accumulating an image processed by the moving and enlarging unit, a unit multiplying a given coefficient by an image processed by the accumulative adding unit, and an iterating unit iterating processing by the moving and reducing unit, the difference extracting unit, the moving and enlarging unit, the accumulative adding unit and the coefficient multiplying unit according to a given condition.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a count unit, a transform unit, a first calculation unit, a second calculation unit, and a binarization unit. The count unit counts the number of pixels of an original binary image. The transform unit transforms the original binary image into a transformed image based on a given transform level. The first calculation unit calculates the number of pixels of the transformed image, based on the given transform level and the number of pixels of the original binary image. The second calculation unit calculates a threshold level based on the number of pixels for each pixel value of the transformed image and the number of pixels of the transformed image. The binarization unit binarizes the transformed image based on the threshold level.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image extracting unit, a vector information generating unit and a color information adding unit. The image extracting unit extracts an image to be vectorized from a multilevel image as a binary image. The vector information generating unit vectorizes the binary image extracted by the image extracting unit to generate vector information. The color information adding unit adds color information to the vector information generated by the vector information generating unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit, a determination unit, a handwriting separation unit, an image generation unit, an image recognition unit, and an output unit. The reception unit receives handwriting information. The determination unit determines whether first handwriting indicated by first handwriting information and second handwriting indicated by second handwriting information overlap each other on the basis of the handwriting information. The handwriting separation unit separates the first handwriting from the second handwriting by changing a first/second handwriting position in the first/second handwriting information when the determination unit has determined that the first and second handwriting overlap each other. The image generation unit generates an image from handwriting information obtained through the separation, and information regarding handwriting that has been determined not to overlap other handwriting. The image recognition unit recognizes the generated image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit, a representative-image generating unit and a vector converting unit. The extracting unit extracts pixel blocks from image data. The representative-image generating unit generates representative images from the pixel blocks extracted by the extracting unit, based on a similarity between the pixel blocks. The vector converting unit converts the representative images generated by the representative-image generating unit into vector information.

Abstract: A decoding apparatus includes a random number generating section and a decoding section. The random number generating section generates random numbers according to distribution of original data corresponding to respective quantization indexes. The decoding section generates decoded data on a basis of the random numbers generated by the random number generating section.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a binarization unit, a determination unit and a pixel value calculating unit. The binarization unit binarizes image data. The determination unit determines as to whether or not each pixel of the image data binarized by the binarization unit forms a peripheral portion of a pixel block. The pixel value calculating unit calculates a corrected pixel value of the pixel block based on (i) pixel values of pixels which are determined by the determination unit not to form the peripheral portion of the pixel block and (ii) pixel values of pixels forming the pixel block.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a host device and a terminal device connected to the host device. The host device includes a compressing unit, a code-stream transmitting unit, a control-signal receiving unit and a first controller. The code-stream transmitting unit transmits a code stream generated by the compressing unit. The control-signal receiving unit receives a control signal transmitted by the terminal device. The first controller controls the code-stream transmitting unit according to the received control signal. The terminal device includes a code-stream receiving unit, a decompressing unit, a reproduction-image outputting unit, a second controller and a control signal transmitting unit. The decompressing unit generates reproduction image data from the received code stream. The second controller restricts receiving operation of the code-stream receiving unit according to a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image acceptance unit that accepts an image; a character information adding unit that adds a character identifier for uniquely identifying a character, a character position indicating a position of the character in the image, a character size indicating a size of the character, and a character color indicating a color of the character as character information, to the image accepted by the image acceptance unit; a font allocation unit that allocates a font without drawing element as a font corresponding to the character identifier within the character information added by the character information adding unit; and an electronic document generation unit that generates an electronic document for reference to the font information allocated by the font allocation unit, based on the character information added to the image by the character information adding unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a cutout position extraction unit, a character candidate extraction unit, a graph generation unit, a link value generation unit, a path selection unit and an output unit. The cutout position extraction unit extracts a cutout position. The character candidate extraction unit recognizes each character for each character image divided by the cutout position and extracts a plurality of character candidates for each recognized character. The graph generation unit sets each of the plurality of extracted character candidates as a node and generates a graph by establishing links between the nodes of adjacent character images. The link value generation unit generates a link value based on a value of character-string-hood representing a relationship between character candidates. The path selection unit selects a path in the generated graph based on the link value. The output unit outputs a character candidate string in the selected path.

Abstract: An image evaluation apparatus includes a pixel extraction unit, an intra-pair difference calculation unit, an inter-pair difference calculation unit and an evaluation unit. The pixel extraction unit extracts, from an input image, a pixel region including a pair of block-boundary pixels in a boundary position of coding blocks and a pair of non-block-boundary pixels in a position other than the boundary position. The intra-pair difference calculation unit calculates a difference between the extracted pair of block-boundary pixels as a first difference, and a difference between the extracted pair of non-block-boundary pixels as a second difference. The inter-pair difference calculation unit calculates a difference between the first difference and the second difference as an amount of block distortion of the extracted pixel region. The evaluation unit evaluates an amount of block distortion of the input image based on the calculated amount of block distortion of the extracted pixel region.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a block setting unit that sets a block having a fixed size to inputted image data; a determining unit that determines whether or not at least a part of an image region included in the block set by the block setting unit is filled with a single pixel value; a pixel value replacing unit that replaces at least a part of the image region included in the block by a single pixel value according to a result of the determination by the determining unit; and a hierarchical process controller that instructs the block setting unit to set a broader block including plural set blocks.