Patent ID: 9451124
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a region separating section configured to a masking region selection receiving section configured to a masking region replacing section configured to a print control section configured to perform printing to produce a masked print based on the masked image data; and a picture region restoration receiving section configured to, for execution of restoration printing on the masked print, the print control section performs printing on the masked print fed from the manual feed tray such that each designated picture region is printed on the corresponding blank region in the masked print based on the designated picture regions and the pieces of location information corresponding to the designated picture regions, the masking region replacing section according to the first storage scheme, restoration image data is stored, the restoration image data including a blank region arranged to replace the text region and the selected picture regions each arranged at a location defined by a corresponding piece of location information, and according to the second storage scheme, the selected picture regions are each stored in association with a corresponding piece of location information.