Patent Document ID: 9305236
Application ID: 14178641

Base Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an input image acquisition module for acquiring an input image generated by reading a document; a histogram generator for generating a histogram of valid pixels in the input image; a character string information calculator for extracting continuous regions in the histogram and calculating character string variance in the input image, based on a distance between a maximum value of classes of the histogram and a center of a continuous region closest to the maximum value, and distances between centers of the continuous regions adjacent to each other; and a document type identification module for identifying a type of the document based on the character string variance.

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Claim 6:
6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a print color identification module for identifying whether the document has a monochromatic print side, wherein the document type identification module identifies the type of the document further based on whether the document has the monochromatic print side.