Image processing apparatus and image processing program

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PATENT NO 8781166
APP PUB NO 20120219182A1
SERIAL NO

13370086

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An image processing apparatus to extract a print image to be printed onto a print medium from an original image, the image processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects a specific area, which includes a plurality of pixels having a low degree of variation in pixel values, from the original image, based on a predetermined detection criterion; and an extracting unit that, when an extraction range having a predetermined shape including the print image is set in the original image, extracts the print image so that the specific area is disposed in a non-print area, which is not printed on the print medium, within the extraction range.

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  • BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hasegawa, Tomohiko Okazaki, JP 83 472

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