While an operation of changing a non-position attribute value for a first object (an operation-target object) is being performed, an information processing method of the present disclosure extracts a non-position attribute value for a second object different from the first object and of the same attribute as the non-position attribute value being changed. Then, it is determined whether the current value of the non-position attribute value being changed is a value within a range predefined based on the non-position attribute value for the second object. In a case where the non-position attribute value for the first object is to be changed in accordance with a change in operation position corresponding to operation information, the current value is changed to the non-position attribute value for the second object if determined to be a value within the range predefined based on the non-position attribute value for the second object.

An object of the present disclosure is to improve convenience for a user to lay out image data by displaying a trimming region when necessary. One embodiment of the present invention is a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to function as a display control unit capable of displaying a screen having a first region in which to place an object and a second region surrounding the first region, and configured to switch to displaying or to hiding the second region in the screen according to a setting indicating whether to display or hide the second region, wherein even in a case where the setting indicates hiding the second region, the display control unit displays the second region based on a position of the object in the first region.

A method of controlling an information processing apparatus includes displaying an edit screen including an obtained image and a print range frame based on obtained print setting information, accepting an edit operation of arrangement of the image in the edit screen, generating image data based on an edited image, and transmitting the generated image data and the print setting information to the image forming apparatus as a print job. Where the image has been edited such that there is a region where the image is not arranged in the print range frame, combining processing in which a predetermined image is added in the region is performed and whereby image data including the image and predetermined image is generated, and where the image has been edited such that there is no region where the image is not arranged in the print range frame, the combining processing is not performed.

An image reading system includes an image reading apparatus including a transport unit configured to transport a document from a bundle of cut documents one by one, a reading unit configured to read an image of the transported document, and a reading control unit, and an external control unit included in an external device coupled to the image reading apparatus, wherein an inclination correction process that corrects an inclination of the image of the document, a size determination process that determines a size of the image as a standard for the bundle of documents, and a size correction process that corrects the size of the image of the document to a specific size determined by the size determination process are performed.

Even from a plurality of small documents, their front-side and back-side images to be formed on a recording paper sheet, with alignment and coincidence of the front-side and back-side images of each document between the front and back sides of the recording paper sheet. In an image forming apparatus, an image processing section detects a front-side image of an original document from a scan area read in a first scan by an image reading section, detects a back-side image of the original document from a scan area read in a second scan, and moves or rotates the front-side image and the back-side image of the original document in terms of a whole image of the scan area so that the front-side image and the back-side image of the original document are brought into alignment and coincidence between a front side and a back side of a recording paper sheet.

An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: one or more image processing modules; a first work memory disposed in a previous position to the one or more image processing modules; a second work memory disposed in a next position to the one or more image processing modules; a decompression-rotation processing module configured to (a) read out and decompress plural pieces of compressed sub-band data of plural sub-bands which locate in plural bands at an identical position in a primary scanning direction, (b) rotate respective pieces of decompressed sub-band data, and store the pieces of rotated sub-band data in the first work memory; and a rotation-compression processing module configured to (c) read out the plural pieces of image-processed sub-band data stored in the second work memory and rotate the respective pieces of sub-band data, and (d) compress the respective pieces of rotated sub-band data.

We propose new methods for creating color varying prints with classical cyan, magenta, yellow inks on a metallic specularly reflecting or on a white diffusely reflecting substrate. We use a special cross-line halftone with optimized surface coverages of the inks to create cross-halftone prints whose colors change when rotating the print in-plane under specular reflection. These prints enable viewing at the same location a first image with a first set of colors and upon in-plane rotation of the print or displacement of the observer, a similar or a different image whose parts are colored with a different set of colors. Applications comprise counterfeit prevention, art, advertisement, decoration, exhibitions and surprising displays in amusement parks.

An imposition device includes an imposing unit that imposes images of plural document pages in a same page order as a pamphlet; a rotation selecting unit that selects whether or not to rotate, by 180 degrees, one of the images that corresponds to a back cover of a pamphlet obtained from a printed material on which the images have been imposed by the imposing unit; and a rotation processing unit that rotates the image that corresponds to the back cover by 180 degrees in a case where rotation of the image that corresponds to the back cover is selected by the rotation selecting unit.

An image forming apparatus and method for rotating a generated print image are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a print engine to form an image on a printing paper and a processor to generate a print image corresponding to print data, rotate the generated print image so that the generated print image corresponds to a user setting orientation if a default output orientation of the image forming apparatus is different from the user setting orientation, and control the print engine to print the rotated print image.

An information processing apparatus includes a receiver that receives an input image to be recognized and a processor configured to, by executing a program, align the input image with a template image in such a way as to match a recognition area of the input image and a recognition area defined on the template image, perform a process for recognizing the recognition area of the aligned input image, generate a check image including the template image and the aligned input image, and display the check image and a result of the process for recognizing the recognition area of the aligned input image such that a correspondence between the check image and the result is recognizable.