US 7,532,757 B2
Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program
Hiroyoshi Yoshida, Tokyo (Japan); Kenzou Sekiguchi, Tokyo (Japan); Shinichi Kato, Kanagawa (Japan); Hiroyuki Tsuji, Kanagawa (Japan); Eiichi Nishikawa, Kanagawa (Japan); Hiroyuki Yaguchi, Kanagawa (Japan); Yushi Matsukubo, Kanagawa (Japan); and Masakazu Kitora, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 19, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/991,406.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-392073 (JP), filed on Nov. 21, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0111053 A1, May 26, 2005
Int. Cl. G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 382—180  [382/164] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing apparatus which performs image processing for an original image obtained by reading an original, comprising:
a reading unit, adapted to read an original;
an assigning unit, adapted to assign a plurality of kinds of attributes to a plurality of objects included in an original image read by said reading unit, in accordance with a shape of each object;
a generation unit, adapted to generate vector data corresponding to the objects included in the original image read by said reading unit in accordance with a said kind of attribute assigned by said assigning unit;
a display unit, adapted to display an image; and
a display control unit, adapted to generate an edit image of the original image corresponding to a display resolution of said display unit on the basis of the vector data, and adapted to control a display of the edit image on said display unit, in accordance with a user's designation of one of said kinds of attributes assigned by said assigning unit, so as to enable discrimination between an object corresponding to a designated kind of attribute and an object corresponding to an undesignated kind of attribute.