Patent ID: 8009909
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an authentication section, arranged to authenticate a user; a segmentation section, arranged to segment an image read by a reader into image regions having different attributes; an extractor, arranged to extract pointer information of the image regions segmented by said segmentation section; a converter, arranged to convert an image of the image region, whose vector conversion is instructed by the user and in a case of no pointer information is extracted by said extractor, into vector data; a setter, arranged to set a security level of the vector data converted by said converter; a register, arranged to register the vector data set with the security level in a server; an obtaining section, arranged to obtain a security level set to data corresponding to each of the image regions, in a case of the pointer information of each of the image regions is extracted by said extractor, from the server based on the extracted pointer information; and a determiner, arranged to determine whether or not the data corresponding to each of the image regions can be edited or printed by comparing the security level obtained by said obtaining section, and a security level of the user authenticated by said authentication section.