Patent ID: 8991689
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus having a reduction layout function that reduces and arranges multiple images to one page of a sheet, comprising: a code symbol detection unit configured to detect a first code symbol on a first sheet and second code symbol on a second sheet; a code information obtaining unit configured to obtain first code information from the first code symbol and second code information from the second code symbol; a code symbol generation unit configured to generate a composite code symbol by compositing the first code information and the second code information; an area reservation unit configured to reserve a code area in which the composite code symbol of a predetermined size more than the minimum readable size is arranged in an image formable area of a sheet, and to define an imaging area by removing the code area from the image formable area of the sheet; and an arrangement unit configured to arrange the composite code symbol in the code area, and to reduce and arrange the multiple images in the imaging area.