Patent ID: 6798913
Filing Date: 2004-09-28
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
An image processing device comprising:a detector for detecting a specific region within an image to be processed; an image allocator for allocating the image to be processed into a plurality of blocks; a text recognizing unit for recognizing text included in the image to be processed; a first determining unit for, on the basis of a recognition result of the text recognizing unit, determining presence and absence of relevance between a first block which is partially included in the specific region and a second block which is entirely included in the specific region among a plurality of blocks allocated by the image allocator; and a second determining unit for determining whether or not an image of the first block should be treated as an image belonging to the specific region in accordance with a determination result of the first determining unit, wherein the second determining unit determines that the image of the first block should be treated as the image belonging to the specific region when the first determining unit has determined that there is relevance between the first block and the second block.