Patent ID: 9245216
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. An imposing apparatus for setting, for each page region, a page box that specifies boundaries of a page, comprising: a line component extractor for extracting a plurality of particular line components from within the page region; a line component pair determiner for determining at least one pair of line components included in positioning marks based on a positional relationship between the particular line components extracted by the line component extractor; a marking position estimator for estimating marking positions for the positioning marks based on a shape of the pair of line components determined by the line component pair determiner; and wherein the positioning marks are made up of two vertical lines and two horizontal lines or one vertical line and one horizontal line, and mark two of the marking positions based on a positional relationship between feature points of one or two vertical lines and one or two horizontal lines, and the feature points are axisymmetric with respect to an axis that interconnects two of the marking positions.