Patent ID: 6480302
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus comprising:an object tag producing unit for producing an object tag indicative of a sort of an object and a region of the object contained in an input image represented by an input image data; an image converting unit for converting the input image data to produce converted image data; and a control signal producing unit for inputting thereinto the object tag produced by said object tag producing unit, for selecting any one of the input image data and the converted image data produced by said image converting unit based upon the input object tag, and for producing a control signal used to perform an image forming process operation based on the selected image data, wherein the control signal producing unit produces the control signal based upon the input image data when the sort of object expressed by the inputted object tag is equal to the multi-valued character and a predetermined condition is satisfied.