Image Processing Apparatus Merging Unique Additional Image Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing technologies face challenges in ensuring the uniqueness of image data when additional images are overlapped, particularly during output and reading, and adjusting the overlapping position of these additional images is difficult.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus that includes an image obtaining member, merging members to add unique additional image data page by page, a memory for storage, and a controller to selectively operate these merging members, allowing for adjustable positioning of the additional image data, ensuring uniqueness and desired layout.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If additional image data is overlapped with original image data at the output stage, then uniqueness of image data is ensured, but position adjustment of additional image becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates the merging operation into two distinct stages: a first merging member that merges additional image data with original image data before storage, and a second merging member that merges additional image data with stored original image data during output. This segmentation allows position adjustment at the output stage while maintaining uniqueness assurance at the storage stage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic controllability by allowing the controller to selectively operate between the first merging member and the second merging member based on different modes. This enables flexible position adjustment of additional images during output while preserving the uniqueness guarantee established during initial storage.
2Ease of operation
If additional image data is overlapped with original image data at the reading stage, then position adjustment is possible, but uniqueness of image data cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The first merging member performs the merging operation in advance during the storage phase, establishing the uniqueness of the merged image data before it is stored. This preliminary action ensures that the combined image data maintains its authenticity and integrity, which is then preserved during subsequent retrieval and output operations.
3Productivity
If simplified image information is output in proof mode, then layout check efficiency is improved, but additional image uniqueness cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a multi-functional merging system where the same merging architecture serves both storage operations and output operations. The controller selectively activates appropriate merging members based on the operational mode, enabling the system to maintain uniqueness guarantees across different operational contexts including proof mode, layout verification, and normal output operations.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus is provided which includes an image obtaining member which obtains an original image and outputs data of the original image. In the image processing apparatus, unique additional image data is merged to the original image data. A memory stores the original image data and the merged image data, and an image is formed based on the formed merged image data. In a first image processing mode, the merged image data is formed before the original data is stored to the memory, and the merged image data is then stored to the memory and an image is formed based on the stored merged image data. In a second image processing mode, the original image data is stored to the memory before forming the merged image data. Then the merged image data is formed, and an image is formed based on the formed merged image data.