Patent Document ID: 9374487
Application ID: 14553614
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a reading control portion configured to read an image within a reading range including an image region of an entire document sheet image of a document sheet in a respective state where the document sheet is not tilted and a respective state where the document sheet is tilted at a predetermined maximum tilt angle; a first blank sheet determination processing portion configured to be able to determine whether the image read by the reading control portion is a blank sheet image, based on an image of a first determination region which is previously set as an overlapped region included in both the image region of the entire document sheet image in the state where the document sheet is not tilted and the image region of the entire document sheet image in the state where the document sheet is tilted at the maximum tilt angle; a first tilt correction processing portion configured to, if the first blank sheet determination processing portion determines that the read image is not a blank sheet image, then determine whether the document sheet image contained within the read image is tilted, and if the document sheet image within the read image is tilted then execute tilt correction processing for the document sheet image within the read image, and, if the first blank sheet determination processing portion determines that the document sheet image within the read image is a blank sheet image, then refrain from determining whether the document sheet image is tilted and execute no tilt correction processing for the document sheet image within the read image; a size detection processing portion configured to detect a size of a document sheet of the document sheet image; and a storage portion configured to store region information of the first determination region corresponding to the size of the document sheet, wherein the first blank sheet determination processing portion reads, from the storage portion, the region information of the first determination region corresponding to the size of the document sheet detected by the size detection processing portion, and determines whether the read image is a blank sheet image, using the region information.