Patent ID: 8369637

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: an image inputting unit that inputs an image; a region division unit that generates region information by dividing an input image input by the image inputting unit into regions having a plurality of different types of attributes, wherein the plurality of different types of attributes includes a frame region attribute; a non-frame region processing unit that obtains data of respective regions other than frame regions by applying attribute-specific processing for respective regions, excluding frame regions, included in the input image on the basis of the input image and the region information, and executes processing of filling of the processed regions; and a frame region processing unit that executes reduction processing and vectorization processing for the frame region according to the region size of the frame region; wherein the frame region processing unit determines whether or not to execute the reduction processing and the vectorization processing for the frame region by comparing the size of the frame region to the size of the input image, and wherein the non-frame region processing unit processes regions with other attributes enclosed within a frame region of the input image before the frame region is processed by the frame region processing unit.