Patent ID: 7920060
Filing Date: 2011-04-05
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires disaster information about a disaster; a form generation unit that determines at least one of a scale of the disaster and a distance of the image processing apparatus from a geographic location of the disaster, based on the disaster information acquired by the acquisition unit, and generates an information registration form, the form containing fields for entering information about the disaster, the fields in the form generated based on the at least one of the determined scale of the disaster and the distance; an output unit that outputs the information registration form generated by the form generation unit to a tangible medium; a reading unit that optically reads a filled-in registration image in which information in the fields of the information registration form are filled in the information registration form; an information recognition unit that extracts the information in the fields of the information registration form from the filled-in registration image read by the reading unit; and a transmission unit that transmits the information recognized by the information recognition unit to a registration server.