Patent ID: 8483483
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a first image data forming unit forming a first image data based on an original image including a feature area and a specific area; a specific area extracting unit extracting image data of said specific area from said first image data; a mark image adding unit combining the extracted image data of said specific area of said first image data and a mark image data for outputting a mark image, for forming combined data corresponding to the specific area; and a first output unit for printing a first image including a mark area as an area where said mark image is formed for receiving a handwritten image to be manually formed thereon, based on said combined data, and an original image area corresponding to the feature area of the original image where said mark image is not formed; a second image data forming unit forming a second image data based on said first image having, after said first image is printed, said handwritten image manually formed on said mark area; a mark area extracting unit extracting image data of said mark area, including the handwritten image formed on said mark area, from said second image data, by detecting the mark image in said second image data; a specific area image processing unit performing prescribed image processing on the extracted handwritten image data of said mark area of said second image data; and a second output unit outputting a second image based on the second image data after said prescribed image processing, wherein said feature area is an area where image features of the original image are substantially formed in said original image, and said specific area is an area where image features of the original image are determined not to be substantially formed, in said original image.