IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image-forming device capable of reducing the risk of deteriorating quality of an output image by reducing an increase in image area identification processing time depending on an input document image. Ž<P>SOLUTION: The image-forming device has: an image input means 101 for acquiring image information from an original to generate an input image; a first identification means 102 for performing first image area identification processing to the input image to output a first identification signal indicating the attribute of an image; a second identification means 104 for inputting the first identification signal and performing second image area identification processing following the first image area identification processing to output a second identification signal; a determination means 103 for inputting the first identification signal to output a determination signal indicating whether the second identification means should be executed; a selection means for selecting the first identification signal as a third one without performing the second image area identification processing when the determination signal does not indicate the execution and for selecting the second identification signal as the third one when the determination signal indicates the execution; and an image processing means 105 for inputting the input image and the third identification signal to execute image processing without performing the second image area identification processing. Ž<P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT Ž