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20080198418 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus that facilitates combination of a monochromatic scanner or a color scanner with a monochromatic plotter includes a common image-processing unit for a monochrome and a color that processes monochromatic image data and color image data that is input via an interface from an exclusive reader for a color scanner or a monochromatic scanner. If the monochrome reader is connected, the image-processing unit processes the monochromatic image data and if the color reader is connected, the image-processing unit processes the color image data. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198419 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A color image forming apparatus and a control method thereof to correct an error between scanning lines due to an alignment error between the laser scanning units corresponding with each color of the image forming apparatus on the basis of a difference of detection times between termination signals for each color when the scanning units output a horizontal synchronization signal and a termination signal to scan a line. A difference of termination times between termination detecting sensors may be used to variably set video clocks for each color, thus reducing the number of components required and reducing the signal processing load. A single sensor may be used to detect the synchronization and termination signals, thus further reducing manufacturing costs. | 08-21-2008 |
20080218801 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING COLOR IMAGE DATA TO MONOCHROME OUTPUT - When converting color input from a color scanner or the like to monochrome output, the measured luminance values are reduced, to help avoid the loss of text or other image portions in the monochrome output. The luminance reduction may be performed based on chrominance values. | 09-11-2008 |
20080218802 | Device calibration method with accurate planar control - A device calibration method based on two-dimensional calibration transform that allows complete control of two-dimensional planes in the three-dimensional CMY (Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow) cube. Two-dimensional planes can be identified in the three-dimensional CMY cube as a primary plane and projected onto two-dimensional calibration lookup tables (LUTs) for C, M, and Y. The LUTs are filled with CMY colorant values that will maintain a fixed color (e.g. CIELAB) response within the chosen primary planes. There are three possible realizations depending upon which primary diagonal CMY plane is chosen. This technique can be used to calibrate an engine over time and to bring two or more engines to the same desired state. | 09-11-2008 |
20080225340 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product - An image processing apparatus includes a judging unit that judges whether a result of image processing performed on an area satisfies a certain processing end condition and a stopping unit that stops the image processing when judgment of the judging unit is affirmative. | 09-18-2008 |
20080231902 | Output Pure Color Tints or Black for Full-Color Input - A method and device for printing a full color image containing at least one object onto a highlight color printer without mixing highlight color and black for any one object. Inputting a full color image containing at least one object to be printed onto a highlight color printer. The highlight color printer prints each object of the full color image as an object containing on highlight color or only black while maintaining luminance of the original full color image. | 09-25-2008 |
20080231903 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In order to allow to store image data in a color reproducible format while reducing the data size, an image processing apparatus includes an image input unit which inputs image data by reading an original image, a determination unit which determines a representative color included in the image data, a binary image data generation unit which generates binary image data including no color information based on the image data, an additional data generation unit which generates additional data as color information corresponding to each pixel which forms the binary image data based on the representative color determined by the determination unit, and a storage unit which stores the binary image data and the additional data. | 09-25-2008 |
20080239399 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PRINTER DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image information acquisition unit obtains first print image information that is binarized with the use of a first threshold matrix. A threshold matrix information acquisition unit obtains information representing the first threshold matrix. A determining unit divides the first print image information obtained by the image information acquisition unit into a plurality of portions, and determines whether each of the divided portions includes contour information, based on the first threshold matrix obtained by the threshold matrix information acquisition unit. A generating unit generates second print image information by performing a re-binarizing operation for each of the divided portions of the first print image information with the use of a second threshold matrix that is different from the first threshold matrix, based on the determination result of the determining unit. | 10-02-2008 |
20080246998 | AUTOMATIC COLORIZATION OF MONOCHROMATIC PRINTED DOCUMENTS - Embodiments herein include a method of adding color to a monochrome (single color printing) document that begins by inputting/creating colorization rules relating to the previously printed monochromatic document and scanning the previously printed monochromatic document to locate rasterized data. After the scanning, the method performs optical character recognition on the rasterized data to search for text corresponding to the previously printed monochromatic document. After the rules are input and the rasterized data is produced, the method automatically colorizes portions of rasterized content according to the colorization rules and this generates a colorized electronic document. | 10-09-2008 |
20080259400 | Printing color images visible under UV light on security documents and valuable articles - In the present invention, we propose a method of creating fluorescent color images visible under UV light. It relies on the new colorants that can be achieved by superposing ink dots, possibly at a reduced size, in order to avoid quenching effects. It also relies on juxtaposed halftoning, which ensures that colorants are printed side by side and do therefore not overlap, thereby preventing quenching effects. It also support the selection of a fluorescent set of inks which comprises at least one ink whose emission spectrum yields a color different from the standard red, green and blue colors, for example a yellow color emitting ink. The method comprises the following techniques: (a) creating new colorants by superposing carefully selected amounts of the fluorescent inks, (b) mapping the gamut of the image to be reproduced into the gamut of the resulting fluorescent colorants and (c) creating the target fluorescent color image by juxtaposed halftoning of the fluorescent colorants. | 10-23-2008 |
20080259401 | Method and system for consistent color control - A method and system for achieving consistent color control by integrating multiple color management and rendering techniques using single multi-level user control. Page Description Language (PDL) data and job processing instructions can be modified upstream of the Raster Image Processor (RIP). The processing operations associated with processing a print job comprising of at least one page include at least one of: flattening all objects on the at least one page into a single layer; removing overprint commands from the print job; converting all objects on the at least one page into a common colorspace; removing embedded tone reproduction curves and halftone screens from the print job. | 10-23-2008 |
20080297850 | PRINTER CONTROLLER FOR A PAGEWIDTH PRINTHEAD HAVING HALFTONER AND COMPOSITOR UNIT - Provided is a printer controller for controlling a pagewidth printhead. The controller includes an interface for receiving an image having a bi-level black data layer compressed in an Edge Delta and Runlength (EDRL) compression format and a continuous tone (contone) CMYK data layer. Also included is an EDRL expander and a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) decoder unit for expanding the image by simultaneously decompressing the two data layers in parallel, as well as a halftoner and compositor unit for halftoning the contone CMYK data layer into bi-level CMYK data layer and compositing the bi-level black data layer over the bi-level CMYK data layer to form a composited bi-level CMYK image. The controller further includes a processor and memory arrangement configured to control the interface, the expander and decoder unit, and the halftoner and compositor unit, and further configured to transmit the composited bi-level CMYK image to a memory buffer of the pagewidth printer via a printhead interface. | 12-04-2008 |
20090002765 | Systems and Methods of Trapping for Print Devices - Systems and methods are provided for identifying candidates for trapping in a frame buffer by correlating display list object information stored in an object-ID plane with pixel data in the frame buffer. In some embodiments, the display list of objects may be generated from the PDL description of a document. In some embodiments, object boundaries may be computed by assigning unique identifiers to objects in the object-ID plane and using morphological techniques to identify object boundaries. Object boundary information may then be utilized to perform trapping on pixels in the frame buffer. The methods described may be performed on a computer and/or a printing device and implemented using one or more of combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware. | 01-01-2009 |
20090034001 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND READING-CHARACTERISTIC CORRECTION METHOD FOR IMAGE READING DEVICE - Gains and offsets of the input-output characteristic of a second side reading unit are controlled so as to match input-output characteristic of a first side reading unit on the basis of image data of a gray chart read by the first side reading unit and the second side reading unit. Then, on the basis of image data of a color chart read by the first side reading unit and the second side reading unit, offsets of the input-output characteristic of the second side reading unit are controlled for individual color components such that differences between color read by the first side reading unit and color read by the second side reading unit are reduced. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034002 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device including an image signal reception unit configured to receive an image signal of an image to be processed; a density reduction area detector configured to detect a density reduction area satisfying predetermined image density reduction requirements in the image to be processed based on the image signal; a specific image area detector configured to detect a specific image area satisfying predetermined specific image requirements different from the predetermined image density reduction requirements in the image to be processed based on the image signal; and a density controller configured to reduce density of the density reduction area detected by the density reduction area detector in a non-specific image area other than the specific image area detected by the specific image area detector, and to not reduce density of the density reduction area in the specific image area. | 02-05-2009 |
20090040563 | Printing job control system and method - Disclosed is an invisible encoding system which can be used for tracking printing jobs. Specifically, this disclosure provides a system and method of encoding sheets of a printing job, where the encoding is invisible to the human naked eye and the encoded information may be permanently fixed to the finished printed product. | 02-12-2009 |
20090040564 | Vision-Based Color and Neutral-Tone Management - A color management system for image reproduction and rendering. Images are rendered to appear perceptually accurate, rather than merely calorimetrically accurate. For example, an image reproduced by a color printer will be perceived as an accurate reproduction of the same image displayed on a computer screen, or that an image displayed on a computer screen is perceived as an accurate reproduction of the same scanned image or photographed image, even though the reproductions may be constrained by other factors, such as paper or substrate darkness, or a limited color gamut of the reproduction process. | 02-12-2009 |
20090067005 | Methods For Smart Copying With Improved Scanning Efficiency - A method for scanning a document and printing a copy with improved efficiency is provided. The method includes scanning the document with a first resolution, determining a content type of the scanned document while scanning at the first resolution and determining an optimum scanning resolution based on the content type. Rescanning the document at the optimum resolution if the first resolution does not correlate with the optimum resolution, selecting a print setting based on the content type and printing the copy using the print setting. | 03-12-2009 |
20090080026 | Method of expression, recording, reproduction, and communication of computer object using color, apparatus for recording and/or reproduction, recording medium, and method of preparation of code - A computer object such as text, graphics, mathematical formulas, images, audio, and other data and information handled inside a computer or through a computer in industry or daily life etc. is expressed, recorded, reproduced, and transmitted using color or a color numerical value. Color is used as a medium for expressing data or information taking note of the characteristics of color. This helps counter the ballooning amount of recording. Color can also be used to prepare codes. | 03-26-2009 |
20090086274 | HLC IMAGES FROM A COLOR SCANNING SYSTEM - Systems and methods are described that facilitate generating a ready-to-print binary dual-plane HLC image for output to an HLC device. A print-ready highlight color (HLC) image can be generated without digital front end (DFE) processing. For example, according to one or more aspects, a color scanner can be employed to produce a two-plane binary TIFF image. One plane contains black (e.g., achromatic) content, while the other contains highlight color content. Black pixels are identified and/or determined using neutral pixel and neutral window detection. Background pixels are mapped to white for both planes. Pixels that are non-neutral and non-background are designated as color pixels. After separation into a neutral plane and an HLC plane, the planes are processed into binary data for printing. | 04-02-2009 |
20090103139 | FORMATION OF PICTURE IMAGE HAVING GRADATION EXPRESSED BY FILL AREA AND ONE-LINE IMAGE DATA - A gradation conversion process section converts gradation made up of a plurality of filled regions and filling colors thereof into one-line image data of a filled region into which the plurality of filled regions is unified. A data transmitting process section transmits the one-line image data to a data reception process section. The received one-line image data is interpreted by a PDL interpretation process section, and converted into data which can be interpreted by a rendering process section, and the data is saved on a display list. The rendering process section converts the saved data into gradation made up of a plurality of filled regions and filling colors thereof, and renders the gradation. | 04-23-2009 |
20090116069 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING PROCESS AND PROGRAM - In an image processing method, on the basis of input image data with respect to a target pixel, independent multi-level data (g | 05-07-2009 |
20090147313 | Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method - An information acquiring unit acquires information indicating whether a color material used at least for image formation is saved. An image-information generating unit creates, when the information acquiring unit acquires the information for saving the color material, image information using the color material of which consumption is saved. | 06-11-2009 |
20090147314 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus including: an image source acquiring unit that acquires an image source; a determining unit that determines whether the image source acquired is a moving image source; a setting unit that sets a matrix size used in a noise elimination of a first plane to be larger than a matrix size used in a noise elimination of a second plane if the image source is a moving image source and sets the matrix size used in the noise elimination of the second plane to be larger than the matrix size used in the noise elimination of the first plane if the image source is a still image source; and a noise elimination unit that executes the noise elimination of the luminance and color difference planes on image data from the image source using the size of the matrix of the smoothing range. | 06-11-2009 |
20090161165 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus processes, for each pixel, multivalued image data for a unit area of a recording medium, so as to form an image on the unit area with a plurality of relative movements between a recording head and the recording medium. The apparatus has a selector that selects a first processing mode for dividing the multivalued image data into a plurality of pieces of multivalued image data corresponding to the plurality of relative movements, and then quantizing each of the plurality of pieces of multivalued image data, or a second processing mode for quantizing the multivalued image data into quantized image data, and then dividing the quantized image data into a plurality of pieces of quantized image data corresponding to the plurality of relative movements. The selector selects the processing mode based on a content (attribute, grayscale, color, etc.) of the multivalued image data. | 06-25-2009 |
20090185227 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus and image processing method are provided for performing adaptive correction at edges of an image to be printed in accordance with conditions of output equipment. The image processing apparatus includes: a printed sample generating component for generating a printed sample having a plurality of gray scale regions for correcting gray scale at edges of the image to be printed; a gray scale region selecting component for selecting from the printed sample generated by the printed sample generating component a gray scale region for realizing visually uniform gray scale at the edges; and an edge image correcting component for correcting edge regions of the image to be printed in accordance with a gray level of the gray scale region selected by the gray scale region selecting component. | 07-23-2009 |
20090207450 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, SHADING CORRECTION METHOD, AND SHADING CORRECTION PROGRAM - A technique is provided that can realize highly accurate shading correction with a simple configuration. A light amount of illumination light on a predetermined illumination target by a light source is controlled such that reflected light having a first luminance value as predetermined black reference data, reflected light having a second luminance value as predetermined white reference data, and reflected light having another luminance value as at least one value between the first luminance value and the second luminance value can be obtained. Information concerning the luminance of reflected light obtained by illuminating the predetermined illumination target with the light source, the light amount of which is controlled, is acquired. Shading correction is performed on the basis of the acquired information. | 08-20-2009 |
20090213429 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING COLOR MATERIAL SAVING PROCESS - An apparatus includes an obtaining part for obtaining image data of a document and a processing part for performing a color material saving process on the image data. The image data includes an edge part and a non-edge part. The apparatus includes a determining part configured to determine whether the document includes a low line-screen ruling area. When the document is determined not to include the low line-screen ruling area, the processing part is configured to perform a first process so that an amount of color material reduced for forming the non-edge part is greater than an amount of color material reduced for forming the edge part. When the document is determined to include the low line-screen ruling area, the processing part is configured to perform a second process so that the amounts of color material reduced for forming the edge part and the non-edge parts are uniform. | 08-27-2009 |
20090244627 | Chromatics-based reading and writing system and method thereof - The present invention discloses a chromatics-based reading/writing system and method. In the present invention, the chromatics-based reading/writing system comprises: a color dot reading/writing device; a color dot recording medium recording data in the color-dot form; and a computer system coupled to the color dot reading/writing device, coding data into setting values of color dots, controlling the color dot reading/writing device to write data on the color dot recording medium in the form of color dots according to the setting values of color dots, controlling the color dot reading/writing device to read color dots on the color dot recording medium, and decoding the setting values of the color dots into the original data. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244628 | IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD AND PRINTING DEVICE - An image generating method comprises the steps of extracting elliptical shape parameters (specifying an elliptical shape), gradation pattern parameters (specifying a gradation pattern to be drawn in the elliptical shape) and drawing area parameters (specifying a drawing area) from an instruction for drawing an elliptical radial gradation, generating a transformation matrix for transforming the elliptical shape into a perfect circular shape based on the elliptical shape parameters, calculating an inverse matrix of the transformation matrix, transforming the gradation pattern parameters using the transformation matrix, transforming a first area containing the drawing area using the transformation matrix, drawing a radial gradation in the perfect circular shape in a second area containing the transformed first area based on the transformed gradation pattern parameters, and generating the elliptical radial gradation for the drawing area by inversely transforming the second area (in which the radial gradation has been drawn) using the inverse matrix. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244629 | IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD AND PRINTING DEVICE - An image generating device, for generating an image including a gradation (in which a color value specifying color changes from the center of the gradation through annular areas) according to an image drawing instruction, comprises an extraction unit that extracts gradation pattern parameters specifying a gradation pattern of the gradation from the image drawing instruction, an area determination unit that determines the annular areas, each having a prescribed width, to be drawn in one color with a uniform color value, based on the gradation pattern parameters extracted by the extraction unit, and a drawing unit that draws the annular areas such that each annular area is drawn in one color and the colors in annular areas are different from each other. | 10-01-2009 |
20090268251 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a color transformation unit and an image processing unit. The color transformation unit color-transforms pixel values of respective pixels expressed by input image information from values in a color space of the input image information into values in a color space of a printer to generate images of respective color plates in the color space of the printer, and generates a control image in which each pixel has a pixel value indicating a type of an image object to which each pixel belongs. The image processing unit applies image processing to each pixel in the image of each color plate in accordance with the type of the image object indicated by the pixel value of a pixel, corresponding to each pixel in the image of each color plate, of the control image and feeds the processed images of the respective color plates to the printer. | 10-29-2009 |
20090296152 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COLOR CONTROL OF COATED IMAGES ON A PRINTED MEDIA - This disclosure relates to the color management of image output devices. Specifically, this disclosure provides methods, apparatus and systems to generate a destination printer profile for coated images. According to one exemplary method, the destination printer profile is generated by printing a plurality of color patches which are then coated, measuring the color attributes associated with the coated color patches, and modifying a destination printer profile to compensate for differences between the printed and coated color patches, relative to a respective reference color. | 12-03-2009 |
20090316212 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system includes a first obtaining section for obtaining a first image and a color mode for the first image; a second obtaining section for obtaining a second image and a color mode for the second image; a priority setting section for setting which of the color mode for the first image and the color mode for the second image priority is to be given to; a color-mode setting section for setting a color mode for a composite image based on the color mode for the first image, the color mode for the second image, and the setting of the priority setting section; a combining section for combining the first image and the second image to produce the composite image; and an outputting section for outputting the composite image with the color mode set by the color-mode setting section. | 12-24-2009 |
20100039671 | USING REFLECTANCE PROPERTIES - A method includes applying at least one medium to a substrate with a printing device to form a symbol. The perceived reflectance properties of the symbol are provided by an amount of the at least one medium applied to the substrate. | 02-18-2010 |
20100039672 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROGRAM - The image forming apparatus comprises a resolution converting unit configured to convert a high-resolution image data into a low-resolution image data, an edge judgment unit configured to judge a shape of an edge in the high-resolution image data, and a density correcting unit configured to make a density correction in the low-resolution image data in accordance with the shape of the edge judged by the edge judgment unit. | 02-18-2010 |
20100046034 | Reformatting Binary Image Data to Generate Smaller Compressed Image Data Size - In various exemplary embodiments, systems include a segmentor to segment text binary image data to a first plane. A subtractor subtracts text binary image from binary image data to generate a non-text binary image data in a second plane. A converter converts non-text binary image data in the second plane into non-text gray scale image data in the second plane. A first compressor compresses the text gray scale image data in the first plane. A second compressor compresses the non-text gray scale mage in the second plane. | 02-25-2010 |
20100053685 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Selecting an image processing module for each attribute in accordance with discriminated attribute and the content of image processing made to correspond to the attribute, generating an image processing flow for each attribute by use of the selected image processing module; judging whether or not the image processing flow can be constructed in an image processing area; when it is judged that a processing area of the image processing flow cannot be constructed in the image processing area, selects an image processing flow having an image processing module which is not held by the other image processing flows from among a plurality of the image processing flows, constructs the selected image processing flow in the image processing area such that the processing area of the image processing flow is included in the image processing area. | 03-04-2010 |
20100067056 | Automated ink color matching of solids and tones - In the development of custom SPOT color inks, there will be only a single combination of pigments that will produce the correct color for both the solid tones and for one or more halftones intermediate between the full tone and the unprinted substrate. A novel system and method is presented for finding such a combination of colorants without requiring a complex suite of software algorithms. The method includes a search of a library of known colored inks printed onto a specified substrate and printed using specified printing conditions. Each record of such a library can contain, for example, the ink formula, the combination of colorants and resin, the spectral reflectance factor of the ink and substrate, color values (XYZ and CIELAB) of the solid ink color (100% tone) and 10% steps down to 0% (unprinted substrate). In such a database halftones can be specified in units of % (0% to 100%), but can also, for example, be given as 8-bit integers (0 to 255). In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, such a search locates the solid ink color that meets the color requirements and simultaneously meets the color requirements at one or more intermediate halftone steps. The claimed method can thus achieve a printing ink formula that produces a color match to a customer proof at both the solid color and at one or more halftones with ink coverages lying between the unprinted substrate (0% tone) and the fully printed substrate (100% tone). | 03-18-2010 |
20100079810 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image data forming unit that forms an image data which includes a first dot image to be visible by copying, a second dot image to be invisible by copying, a hidden text portion and the background portion; and an image forming unit that carries out image formation by using the image data formed by the image data forming unit. the first dot image has a first color, the first dot image includes dots having a dot size increased by decreasing the number of lines of dots, the second dot image has a second color, the second dot images includes dots having a dot size decreased by increasing the number of lines of dots, and the second dot image is stacked on the first dot image in at least one of a hidden text portion or a background portion. | 04-01-2010 |
20100085603 | STREAK COMPENSATION IN COMPRESSED IMAGE PATHS - In accordance with the present disclosure, there is provided a method for compensating tones on a compressed digital image data. The method comprises generating the compressed digital image from an input digital image data using a wavelet-based compression method; recovering a low resolution version of the input digital image data from the compressed digital image data by partially decompressing the compressed digital image; applying compensating tone reproduction curves (TRC) to the low resolution version of the input digital image data to generate a compensated low resolution image; re-compressing the image using the compensated low resolution image; and, subsequently decompressing all of the compensated pixel arrays to produce decompressed compensated image data. | 04-08-2010 |
20100097656 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An input image is segmented into regions based on attributes of the input image. It is determined whether each segmented region is an illustration region. When it is determined that the segmented region is an illustration region, the color of the determined illustration region is compared with that of a region around the illustration region. When these colors coincide with each other as a result of the comparison, attribute information of the illustration region is changed to that of the region around the illustration region. Print data is generated based on the changed attribute information. | 04-22-2010 |
20100103464 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An input image analysis unit ( | 04-29-2010 |
20100110496 | Mail delivery system and method - The invention provides a method for preparing mail for delivery by first sorting mail to carrier delivery order to create a series of batches of mail for delivery to respective recipients, then packaging the batches of mail in mail holders. Application of computer-implemented alert trigger criteria are used to determine whether a condition exists indicating an enhanced probability that one or more mail pieces in each batch is not correctly addressed such that it should not be delivered to that recipient. An alert mark is then printed on the mail holder for a batch containing one or more mail pieces having an enhanced probability of not being correctly addressed. | 05-06-2010 |
20100118347 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, TONE-CORRECTION-PARAMETER GENERATION SHEET, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes an image output unit, an image input unit, and a tone-correction-parameter generation unit. The image output unit outputs a tone-correction-parameter generation sheet to generate a parameter for correcting a tone of an input image. The tone-correction-parameter generation sheet includes a plurality of patches for at least two types of screens. At least one of the at least two types of screens includes more patches of an identical color and tone than at least another of the at least two types of screens. The image input unit inputs a representative value of each patch read from the tone-correction-parameter generation sheet outputted by the image output unit. The tone-correction-parameter generation unit generates the parameter in accordance with a plurality of representative values inputted by the image input unit. | 05-13-2010 |
20100134846 | PRINT QUALITY CONTROL METHOD - A print quality control method, comprises the steps of: providing a visual referring target on the printing substrate, setting a specific halftone of black “K”; creating a neutral grey tone i.e. NGT; placing tightly both MGT and NGT next to each other across the printing surface; and comparing both printed tones result. By adopting the grey balance theory and visual matching technique, the resultant can provide accurate ink balance information for the production personnel to immediate execute the correction on the imbalance inking condition during production. | 06-03-2010 |
20100142002 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing method including an extraction step of extracting text data and image forming data based on an image processing apparatus control code as a job, and a storing step of relating the information of the job, the text data, and the image forming data to each other and storing them in a memory unit. | 06-10-2010 |
20100231976 | SECURE PRINTING-OUT USING COLOR TONER AND PARTICULAR TONER - An image processing apparatus forming an image with color toners used for full color printing and a particular toner is provided. The apparatus comprises a storage storing image data and attribute information indicating an attribute of each pixel in the data; a compression component compressing the information; a change component changing attribute information except particular toner information for forming an image with the particular toner of the attribute information, so that a data amount of the compressed attribute information does not exceed the storage capacity, when a data amount of the compressed attribute information exceeds the storage capacity; a component storing the attribute information changed by the change component into the storage; and a component forming a full color image and a particular toner image by image processing using the attribute information in the storage for the image data in the storage. | 09-16-2010 |
20100245923 | IMAGE FORMING APPARAUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires image information that represents an image; a formation unit that forms the image that the image information that the acquisition unit acquires represents onto a medium; a trimming unit that trims the medium onto which the formation unit forms the image; and a determination unit that determines an edge cut from the image based on the size of a trimmed part of the medium trimmed by the trimming unit, the size of the medium, and the size of the image that the image information represents, wherein the formation unit forms the image of which the edge that the determination unit determines to cut is cut onto the medium so that the edge of the image is located at a position based on the trimmed part that the trimmed unit trims. | 09-30-2010 |
20100259791 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - Provided is an ink jet printing apparatus capable of printing halftone image data representing a halftone image including at least color components of cyan, magenta, and yellow, the ink jet printing apparatus including: an input unit which is used to input the halftone image data; a smoothing unit which creates smoothing image data by performing a smoothing process only on the yellow component in the halftone image data or performing a smoothing process having a smoothing degree relatively stronger than those of other color components on the yellow component; and a printing control unit which controls execution of a printing process on the basis of the smoothing image data. | 10-14-2010 |
20110051196 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS - A print control apparatus is provided, which controls a printing apparatus that performs printing using a plurality of color inks including a white ink. The print control apparatus includes a toning white designation unit that designates a plurality of partial regions in a print region where the printing by the printing apparatus is performed, and designating at least one of sets of density values and color specification values with respect to a toning white that is defined by a combination of the density value and the color specification value in a predetermined color system with respect to the partial regions; and a print control unit that controls a first image forming unit that forms a color image on the print region and a second image forming unit that forms a toning white image on the partial regions in which the sets of the density values and the color specification values are designated. | 03-03-2011 |
20110075220 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The digital complex machine is constructed to split data corresponding to an image read by the image reading unit and output a split image separately from a read image. A split image is extracted by the partial image extracting unit on the basis of area designation by the user through the display-operation input unit or on the basis of an extraction result of feature information by the character recognizing unit or attribute information of a highlighted character. Data corresponding to a partial image is then generated by the print image generating unit and a partial image is printed on a sheet different from a read image by the print control unit. Otherwise, electronic data corresponding to a partial image is transmitted to another digital complex machine, a PC, a mobile phone, a server, a USB memory and the like. | 03-31-2011 |
20110128586 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The cluster of a background is specified among a plurality of clusters classified by clustering processing, and a label area whose size is less than a first threshold value is combined with adjoining another label area which is not the cluster of the background among label areas to which the same label number is given by labeling processing. Then, whether the label area is combined with the adjoining another label area based on characteristic quantity obtained from the label area is determined, and combining, vector data is generated based on the label area after combining the label area when determined as the label area being combined. | 06-02-2011 |
20110194150 | METHOD FOR PRINTING IN MULTIPLE COLORS - A method of printing on a substrate includes enabling a user to draw a boundary of an area on an electronic page of text. The boundary has text characters both to the left of the boundary and to the right of the boundary on each of at least three vertically adjacent rows of the text. A user is enabled to indicate a first font color in which text within the area is to be printed, the first font color being different from a second font color in which text outside of the area is to be printed. The text within the area is printed in the first font color. The text outside the area is printed in the second font color. | 08-11-2011 |
20120019869 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING AND PROCESSING HALFTONE REGIONS IN SCANNED DOCUMENTS - A system for halftone processing is provided. The system includes a programmable halftone segmentation system having one or more programmable parameters to accommodate different input image parameters, such as different printer or scanner parameters, and configured to generate output control data as a function of image input data. A programmable output processor receives the output control data and the image input data and generates image output data that compensates for halftone regions in the image input data. | 01-26-2012 |
20120038954 | IMAGE CROPPING PROCESS - An image cropping process of a multifunction peripheral is provided. Firstly, a top edge endpoint of an object image is searched from a band image of an original image. Then, each band image of the original image is read to search the object endpoint coordinate of a to-be-printed object image zone. The object image zone is outputted to be printed. The image cropping process further provides a strategy for detecting spots in order to enhance the accuracy of searching the object image. | 02-16-2012 |
20120062956 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE - An information processing apparatus includes an input unit that receives specifications of a color, a type of a surface effect that is a visual or a tactile effect, and a region to which the surface effect is applied, with respect to input image data; a generating unit that generates color data and gloss control data based on the specifications, the gloss control data being data which is used for generating clear toner data and in which a gloss control value is specified for identifying the type of the surface effect applied to the recording medium and for identifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium; and a sending unit that sends the color data and the gloss control data to a print control apparatus. | 03-15-2012 |
20120075677 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PRINT JOB IN PRINTING PLATFORM - A method for processing a print job includes: a) analyzing printer description language (PDL) image data for a print job; b) determining a raster image processor (RIP) orientation for the print job based at least in part on the analysis of the PDL image data, the RIP orientation being selected from a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation; and c) processing the PDL image data for each page of the print job to form raster image data for each page in the RIP orientation and storing the raster image data in the RIP orientation. A printing platform associated with the method includes a parser module, a controller module, a storage device, and a RIP module. | 03-29-2012 |
20120113476 | PRINTING APPARATUS, COLOR CONVERSION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing apparatus prints an image with the use of a luster agent and a colorant, and is provided with a color conversion unit which converts a color of an image into a printed color expressed by the luster agent and the colorant such that a degree of change in brightness with respect to a gradation change for pixels belonging to a highlighted part, in which index values relating to the brightness are equal to or greater than a first predetermined value, is greater than that for pixels with index values which do not belong to the highlighted part, among the pixels constituting the image. | 05-10-2012 |
20120147427 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, GRADATION CHARACTERISTIC MEASURING METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM AND GRADATION CHARACTERISTIC MEASUREMENT SHEET - A terminal device includes: a colorimetry unit that performs colorimetry on color values of respective measurement regions on a gradation characteristic measurement sheet where the plural measurement regions are formed in different densities; and a determination unit that determines identification information to identify the gradation characteristic measurement sheet based on a result of colorimetry of identification information measurement regions arranged to identify the gradation characteristic measurement sheet in a result of colorimetry by the colorimetry unit. | 06-14-2012 |
20120154872 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SELECT A TRIM SIZE - In one embodiment, a digitized document, formatted as an image file and representing a scanned original page with a page boundary, is received. An image resolution for the digitized document is identified. A height and width of the page boundary, measured in pixels, is identified. A desired trim size for the digitized document is determined based on a function of the identified page boundary height and width and the image resolution. An available trim size that is closest to the desired trim size is selected for printing of the digitized document, via data indicative of available trim sizes stored in a computer-readable medium. | 06-21-2012 |
20120200896 | Method for Optimizing the Search for Trapping Regions - Methods disclosed permit the identification of frame buffer pixels for trapping. In some embodiments, flags associated with pixels in the frame buffer may be used to provide an indication of pixels for trapping. A first bit in a flag associated with a pixel may be set when the pixel is painted. In some embodiments, the method discloses a process for setting the value of a second bit in the flag to determine if the pixel associated with the flag lies on an object boundary. The pixel is identified as a candidate for trapping based on the value of the at least one flag. | 08-09-2012 |
20120212785 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same in which input image data is divided into blocks and color chrominance data of each block is analyzed thereby perform a print job by automatically detecting whether an image should be print in color or pure black. | 08-23-2012 |
20120229861 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus, which performs printing using a cyan ink, a magenta ink, a yellow ink, and two kinds of black inks, includes an image data acquisition section configured to acquire image data representing an image targeted for printing; a black line specification section configured to specify a black line included in the image on the basis of the image data; a printing control section configured to perform control so as to, along with performing printing of the black line by using the two kinds of black inks, perform printing with respect to pixels forming at least one portion of the black line so as to overlap the two kinds of black colors, and perform printing of a portion other than the black line by using at least one of the cyan ink, the magenta ink, the yellow ink, and the two kinds of black inks. | 09-13-2012 |
20120236366 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM AND PRINTING DEVICE - An image processing apparatus includes an area specifying unit for specifying a text area including a text with an achromatic color and a background with an achromatic color, in an image to be output; an inversion processing unit for inverting the brightness of achromatic colors only for the specified text area; and an output unit for outputting an image including the text area where the brightness of achromatic colors is inverted. With respect to a gray-level achromatic color configuring a text in the specified text area, the inversion processing unit changes the color to be brighter than the case where the brightness is inverted. | 09-20-2012 |
20120243051 | METHOD FOR GENERATING PRINT DATA AND A COLOR PRINTER SYSTEM - A method for generating print data for digital color images uses a division of the images in windows. Each window is characterized as belonging to a predefined class, based on values of pixels in corresponding windows in at least two sub-images that are derived from the color image by a series of image processing steps. These sub-images are, e.g. a gradient sub-image in which the value of every pixel indicates the difference of that pixel with its local neighborhood and a non-uniformity sub-image in which each pixel determined to be comprised in a uniform area is provided with a predetermined value. The percentage of windows belonging to a class is calculated and compared to threshold values to identify an image type. This image type is used to select a conversion method to convert the color image into print data for printing on the printer system. | 09-27-2012 |
20120250095 | METHOD AND PRINTING SYSTEM FOR GRAY BALANCE CORRECTION OF A PRINTING PROCESS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORAGE DEVICE - A method and a printing system for gray balance correction of a printing process include determining first color values at/on a gray axis of a color space of a reference printing process. These first color values determine tonal values describing a corrected gray balance of the target printing process. To avoid wastage and a further proof for gray balance calibration of the printing process, second color values of the printing process, describing the corrected gray balance, are derived from the first color values. The tonal values of the target printing process corresponding to the second color values are determined from first characterization data and the second color values of the printing process. A correction function created from these tonal values describes the corrected gray balance. Determining corrected characterization data is also possible. A printing form is produced and a printing material is imaged by using the corrected gray balance. | 10-04-2012 |
20120287475 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGES, AND PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING DENSITY ADJUSTMENTS - Density adjustment performed by a user to obtain a desired tint by a density adjustment function has been difficult because of the difficulty in determining which density region of which color needs to be adjusted. An image processing apparatus displays a print preview image corresponding to an image to be printed, causes a user to select a position on the displayed print preview image, and acquires color information of the selected position. The image processing apparatus further determines, from among a plurality of density regions, at least any one of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black density regions corresponding to the acquired color information, and displays an adjustment screen for adjusting a density in the determined density regions. | 11-15-2012 |
20120307312 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A generation unit is configured to generate a black color material data and the plurality of pieces of chromatic color material data, for a color positioned at a surface of a dark portion in a color gamut that can be reproduced using a black color material and the plurality of chromatic color materials, in such a way as to arrange dots of the black color material and respective dots of the plurality of chromatic color materials exclusively on a recording medium and set a rate of the arranged dots of the black color material to be greater as the color positioned at the surface is closer to black. | 12-06-2012 |
20120314259 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE USING INKJET PRINTING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INKJET PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus shifts dots of a recording dot pattern by half of a dot pitch in a main scanning direction to generate a shift dot pattern, corrects a jagged outline of the shift dot pattern caused by shifted dots using correction dots to generate a corrected shift dot pattern, and determines an increased number of ink droplets to be additionally ejected from one or more of a plurality of nozzles to form the shifted dot or the correction dot of the corrected shift dot pattern with an increased dot size, based on an estimated shift value indicating the displacement in landing position of ink droplets forming the dot of the recording dot pattern. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314260 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a print image data generator and a density adjuster. The print image date generator generates print image data for each of colors to be used to print a document image from image data of the document image including a barcode image and a background image overlapped on the barcode image as a background. The density adjuster performs at least one of processing to reduce the density of the barcode image in at least any one of pieces of the print image data of colors including the barcode image and processing to reduce the density of the background image within a neighboring region that neighbors a bar of the barcode image in at least any one of pieces of the print image data of colors including the background image. | 12-13-2012 |
20130063785 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A display processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive display information indicating whether gloss-control plane image data is displayed and whether clear plane image data is displayed. The gloss-control plane image data specifies a type of a surface effect applied to a recording medium and a glossy area to which the surface effect is to be applied, and indicates a color of the glossy area when being displayed. The clear plane image data specifies a transparent image formed on the recording medium and indicates a color of the transparent image when being displayed. The apparatus also includes a generating unit configured to synthesize color plane image data indicating a color image and one of the gloss-control plane image data and the clear plane image data that is specified to be displayed thus to generate a synthetic image. | 03-14-2013 |
20130128317 | DOUBLE LAYER GLOSSMARK IMAGE THROUGH DYNAMIC PATTERNINKS - A method for providing a double layer GlossMark™ image includes providing a first layer text string for generating a patternink. The method further includes providing a second layer text string through the patternink. The first layer text string is visible as gloss variation between first character and background fields and the second layer text string is visible as a color difference between second character and background fields. | 05-23-2013 |
20130135683 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF GENERATING COLOR CONVERSION TABLE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a print data generating device which generates print data for printing using plural kinds of color material. The device includes a processor, and a memory storing computer-readable instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the device to perform acquiring pixel data including grayscale values of plural color components corresponding to the plural kinds of color material, acquiring plural limitation values which are determined for the plural color components in the pixel data, respectively, and according to fixing characteristics of color material of the respective color components, to a print medium, determining a total allowable amount in printing a color represented by the pixel data based on the limitation values, correcting the pixel data such that a total amount of color material for the pixel data does not exceed the total allowable amount if needed, and generating the print data based on the corrected pixel data. | 05-30-2013 |
20130169994 | DATA GENERATION METHOD AND DATA GENERATION APPARATUS - Conventional calibration patches are designed such that gradation values of the patches are determined, based on the overall length of a trajectory of a monochrome ink color in an L*a*b* space, so that distances between patches become uniform, and therefore provide low interpolation accuracy in a region where measurement values change non-linearly in accordance with the change in gradation. | 07-04-2013 |
20130176598 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an image processing apparatus and an image processing method according to the present invention, a gradation correction table creation unit prints stored chart data on a print paper by an image forming device, determines a target color from the color measuring result of the printed chart by a color measuring device, and creates a gray reproduction estimation model function according to the measured color result of the chart. Next, after the gradation correction table is created such that the gray of each gradation is adequately close to the target color, the gradation correction table is changed such that the color difference of neighboring gradations is included in a predetermined range. | 07-11-2013 |
20130222858 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The color image forming apparatus includes a CPU configured to correct a result of detecting a toner patch by a density sensor based on a result of detecting a first white reference plate by the density sensor, and to control a density or chromaticity of a toner image based on a result of detecting the toner patch by the density sensor corrected by the CPU. The CPU is configured to further correct the result of detecting the first white reference plate by the density sensor based on a result of detecting, by the density sensor, a second white reference plate for correcting the first white reference plate. With this configuration, a correction of a sensor output is performed with high accuracy, and detection accuracy of the density or the chromaticity by the sensor is enhanced. | 08-29-2013 |
20130229692 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING HYBRID RAISED MARKINGS ON DOCUMENTS TO ENHANCE SECURITY - Haptic security features, which are generally not visually perceptible or reproducible, are applied on a surface of a substrate according to a predetermined scheme. The haptic security features are complemented by visual features that bear a relationship to the haptic security features, and/or otherwise to features of an underlying image that is already printed on the substrate. One or more colored ink layers that includes characters or other features that bear a relationship to the haptic security features is embedded into the haptic security features on the surface of the substrate to form a composite security feature that has visual information as well as haptic response. Haptic security features are based on redundantly encoding features that are pre-printed on the substrate in a preliminary step of forming a visual image on the substrate by overprinting portions of the underlying pre-printed image related to the haptic security features. | 09-05-2013 |
20130242349 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DENSITY CORRECTION METHOD - An image forming apparatus having density correction characteristic data and a section to execute density conversion on input image data includes a section to generate detecting patterns with multiple area ratios, a section to create images of the patterns on an image bearing member, a section to detect the images of the patterns created on the image bearing member, a section to hold detected values corresponding to the images of the patterns detected from the image bearing member, a section to obtain fixed values or previously detected values as target values for correction, and correction coefficients, a section to calculate a correction characteristic corresponding to the detecting patterns from the obtained target values, the detected values, and correction coefficients, and a section to synthesize new density correction characteristic data from the density correction characteristic data and the correction characteristic corresponding to the patterns. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250362 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND QUANTIZATION METHOD - When quantizing the color material amount data of a black color and that of a chromatic color, the color material amount data of a first chromatic color is quantized so that the phase of a low spatial frequency component of black color quantization data obtained by quantizing the color amount data of the black color is opposite to that of the low spatial frequency component of first quantization data obtained by quantizing the color material amount data of the first chromatic color, and the high spatial frequency component of the black color quantization data has no correlation with that of the first quantization data. | 09-26-2013 |
20130265608 | PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM - In the present invention, a printing control device comprises: a generation unit that generates a clear toner plane data based on a type of a surface effect which is applied to a recording medium and gloss control plane data for specifying an area in the recording medium to which the surface effect is applied; a first gradation correction unit that performs first gradation correction that varies per combination of a color of colored plane data and the surface effect, with respect to each of a plurality of items of colored plane data that configures the colored plane data; and an output unit that outputs the image data generated based on the clear toner plane data generated by the generation unit and the colored plane data to which the first gradation correction is applied. | 10-10-2013 |
20130271791 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING SYSTEM, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A display processing apparatus includes a transparent display data generating unit and a preview image generating unit. Based on document data including color plane image data indicating an area for which use of a color developer is specified and transparent plane image data indicating an area for which use of a transparent developer is specified together with the type of transparent processing performed on the area by using the transparent developer, the transparent display data generating unit generates pieces of transparent display data showing a result of image formation corresponding to the transparent processing with the transparent developer for each type of transparent processing. The preview image generating unit generates a preview image by projecting a color display plane on which the color plane image data is displayed and transparent display planes on which the pieces of transparent display data are displayed in a three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional plane. | 10-17-2013 |
20130278971 | METHOD OF FORMING CHARACTERS FOR MICROPRINT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a method of forming characters for microprint and an image forming apparatus using the same. The method of forming characters for microprint includes determining for every image character a size font taking into account the rules to create small prints, rasterizing a character into a bitmap, skeletonizing the bitmap, reformatting the bitmap maintaining a character legibility, storing the bitmap, and forming halftoning cells from the reformatted bitmap. | 10-24-2013 |
20130286439 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer for printing using at least three types of colors includes one or more heads ejecting at least two inks including first and second inks for printing one of the three types of colors. The first ink includes a first coloring material having a first density. The second ink includes a second coloring material different from the first coloring material and has a second density which is higher than the first density. | 10-31-2013 |
20130301082 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PRINTING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - Systems and methods for printing a 3D object on a three-dimensional (3D) printer are described. The methods semi-automatically or automatically delineate an item in an image, receive a 3D model of the item, matches said item to said 3D model, and send the matched 3D model to a 3D printer. | 11-14-2013 |
20130321869 | COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING 1-BIT IMAGE DATA FROM MULTIPLE-BIT IMAGE DATA - Computer programs generating 1-bit image data from multiple-bit image data that, when printed, produces a colour image constituted by dots. Printing apparatuses include a printer and a computer programmed with such a computer program. Methods for printing a colour image derived from multiple-bit image data include converting the multiple-bit image data into 1-bit image data. | 12-05-2013 |
20130335780 | IMAGE DATA GENERATION METHOD, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD, IMAGE DATA RECORDING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus generates black, cyan, magenta, and yellow halftone image data from a multi-tone color image. When the cyan halftone image data is generated, the size of a cyan dot to be formed at a target pixel position is provisionally determined and added to the size of a black dot to obtain a total dot size. When the total dot size is less than or equal to a first threshold dot size, the cyan dot size is determined to be the provisionally determined size, and when the total dot size is greater than the first threshold dot size, the cyan dot size is determined to be the largest dot size within the range of a difference between the first threshold dot size and the black dot size. It is possible to prevent excessive overlapping of black and cyan dots. | 12-19-2013 |
20130342875 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a step detecting unit which detects a first step pixel and a second step pixel in the binary image and step directions of the first step pixel and the second step pixel; and an enlargement processing unit which inverts pixel values of pixels from the first pixel value to the second pixel value in a pixel area corresponding to the first step pixel in the enlarged image, and inverts pixel values of pixels from the second pixel value to the first pixel value in a pixel area corresponding to the second step pixel. The pixels of which pixel values are inverted are located at positions corresponding to its step direction. The number of the pixels of which pixel values are inverted corresponds to its step length in the binary image. | 12-26-2013 |
20140022601 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An image forming device has an image processing unit that generates first image data on the basis of image forming data describing an object. The first image data specify first gradation values of at least one black or chromatic color. The image processing unit also identifies certain pixels in an area in which the object is disposed, and generates second image data specifying a second gradation value that is greater than a predetermined gradation value for the identified pixels. An image forming unit forms a first image, based on the first image data, by using at least one black or chromatically colored developing agent, and forms a second image, based on the second image data, by using a white developing agent, thereby reproducing colors in white areas while reducing the usage of the white developing agent. | 01-23-2014 |
20140049798 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an image-area separator that separates a character area from monochrome document data scanned by a scanner, a character pixel detecting unit that counts the number of pixels of a character in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction included in a controller, a bolded character identifying unit that identifies a character as a bolded character in case the count result is larger than a predefined threshold value, and a color converter that converts the bolded character into color data. | 02-20-2014 |
20140055818 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus acquires monochrome image data and, for a pattern of each parameter, converts the acquired monochrome image data into intermediate image data. The intermediate image data is expressed in a set of signal values of a plurality of color elements. | 02-27-2014 |
20140085680 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDIUM, AND METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGE DATA - An image processing apparatus includes a first attribute image generation unit; a second attribute image generation unit; and a foreground image generation unit. The first attribute image generation unit is configured to determine a first attribute value from an input image to generate a first attribute image. The second attribute image generation unit is configured to determine a second attribute value from the input image to generate a second attribute image. The foreground image generation unit is configured to generate a foreground image expressing color information in the specific region according to the input image, the first attribute image, and the second attribute image. Further, the foreground image generation unit is configured to switch a method of determining a pixel value of a target pixel of the foreground image according to contents of the first attribute image and the second attribute image in a reference region. | 03-27-2014 |
20140092439 | ENCODING IMAGES USING A 3D MESH OF POLYGONS AND CORRESPONDING TEXTURES - A method and system for encoding images using a 3D mesh of polygons and corresponding textures is disclosed herein. Depth information and image texture information may be obtained, and the 3D mesh of polygons may be calculated from the depth information. The corresponding textures may be determined using the image texture information, and both the 3D mesh of polygons and the corresponding textures may be encoded using at least one of a mesh frame, a texture frame, a change frame, or any combinations thereof. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098405 | PRINTING INSTRUCTION APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND PRINTING INSTRUCTION METHOD - There is provided a printing instruction apparatus. An acquiring unit acquires document data of a document to be printed. A receiving unit receives printing conditions set for each of types of document components included in the document. A setting unit performs printing setting for each of the types of the document components with respect to the document data, in response to a reception of the printing conditions. An instructing unit instructs a printing mechanism to perform printing based on the document data subjected to the printing setting. | 04-10-2014 |
20140153053 | Image Forming Apparatus Performing Overprint Processing - A first color conversion unit converts non-subtractive image data into subtractive image data. An overprint detection unit detects whether overprinting is specified for the subtractive image data. A drawing processing unit performs overprint processing for the subtractive image data if a color value of a foreground object, for which overprinting is specified, indicates that a region where the foreground object overlaps a background object is colored, and an underlying region of the background object behind the foreground object is colored. The color value of an overlapping region is overwritten with the color value of the foreground object. The overlapping region is not overwritten if the region where the foreground object overlaps the background object is colorless. A second color conversion unit converts image data subsequent to the overprint processing into image data having output colors in accordance with characteristics of the image forming apparatus. | 06-05-2014 |
20140168710 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is provided that can provide a natural edge processing even if a toner save processing and a line width correction processing are configured in parallel. The image forming apparatus detects an edge neighboring region of an input image in a predetermined direction. The edge neighboring region detected by the neighboring edge detection step is subjected to a line width correction processing. An edge region of the input image in a direction other than the predetermined direction is detected. Then, a toner save processing is performed on a no-edge region that is a region other than the edge region detected by the edge detection step. | 06-19-2014 |
20140168711 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - By addition of a copy forgery inhibited pattern image having a lower density to an image in a saving mode, there is provided an image processing apparatus which can reduce consumption amounts of toner and ink while keeping effectiveness of the copy forgery inhibited pattern image. The present invention is an image processing apparatus having a copy forgery inhibited pattern image addition mode and a saving mode, and includes a unit configured to determine whether the copy forgery inhibited pattern image addition mode is set and a unit configured to determine whether the saving mode is set, wherein a density of the copy forgery inhibited pattern image to be added to the image in the case where the saving mode is set is lower than a density of the copy forgery inhibited pattern image to be added to the image in the case where the saving mode isn't set. | 06-19-2014 |
20140211263 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a first determination unit determining an attribute of an image data described in a page description language; a second determination unit determining whether there exists a data having high color saturation in the image data; a third determination unit determining a main hue in the image data; and a determination unit determining an optimal printing method for printing the image data based on determination results by the first, the second, and the third determination units. | 07-31-2014 |
20140218769 | PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A printing control device is disclosed. The printing control device includes a user interface unit to receive an print command for a print job, an extraction unit to extract a bitmap image from the print job, a sketch image generating unit to generate a sketch image by using the extracted bitmap image, a print data generating unit to replace the bitmap image by the generated sketch image in the print job to generate print data, and a communication interface unit to transmit the generated print data to an image forming apparatus. | 08-07-2014 |
20140233068 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROCESSING SCANNED DATA - An efficient method and system to enhance digital acquisition devices for analog data is presented. The enhancements offered by the method and system are available to the user in local as well as in remote deployments yielding efficiency gains for a large variety of business processes. The quality enhancements of the acquired digital data are achieved efficiently by employing virtual reacquisition. The method of virtual reacquisition renders unnecessary the physical reacquisition of the analog data in case the digital data obtained by the acquisition device are of insufficient quality. The method and system allows multiple users to access the same acquisition device for analog data. In some embodiments, one or more users can virtually reacquire data provided by multiple analog or digital sources. The acquired raw data can be processed by each user according to his personal preferences and/or requirements. The preferred processing settings and attributes are determined interactively in real time as well as non real time, automatically and a combination thereof. | 08-21-2014 |
20140240787 | Mechanism for Applying Marks After Rasterization - A method is disclosed. The method includes performing rasterization of print job data to generate a raster image, reading a job ticket associated with the print job data including marking data that is to be added to the raster image and performing a second rasterization to apply the marking data to the raster image. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240788 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: a color converting portion and an edge-outline-to-be-defined specifying portion. The color converting portion is configured to convert a portion near one of edges of a black determination range determined as having a composite black and a portion near the other of the edges thereof, so as to have a pure black. The edge-outline-to-be-defined specifying portion is configured to set a range, of the black determination range, positioned inward of one of the edges of the black determination range and the other of the edges of the black determination range, as a mask range, for a black plane, and specify an edge outside the mask range as an edge on which edge outline definition is to be performed. | 08-28-2014 |
20140253975 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING HALFTONING OF A COLOR IMAGE BASED ON ITS COLOR SEPARATION CONTENT - A method for enabling halftoning of an image based on its color separation content is provided. The method provides better image quality and includes: analyzing image data to determine whether one or more pixels of a plurality of input pixels are separation overlay pixels having colorant requests from multiple contone planes; and halftoning the pages of the color image to produce an output color image based on the following: if a page of the color image includes more than a threshold amount of separation overlay pixels and if a property of the separation overlay pixels exceeds a predetermined threshold value, then a first halftoning model of the image printing device is used to halftone that page of the color image, else a second halftoning model, which includes an adjustment of a property of a halftone dot in the output image, is used to halftone that page of the color image. | 09-11-2014 |
20140300933 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - There is provided an image forming apparatus including: an image data acquiring unit that acquires image data of an image formed on a sheet; an identification information acquiring unit that acquires identification information that identifies the sheet on which the image is formed; an image forming unit that forms an image based on the image data on the sheet with a decolorable colorant which becomes colorless by a predetermined chemical reaction and that forms an identification information image based on the identification information on the sheet with a non-decolorable colorant which does not become colorless by the chemical reaction; and a storage control unit that stores the identification information and the image data of the image to be formed on the sheet, on which the identification information image corresponding to the identification information is formed, in a predetermined storage region in a correlated manner. | 10-09-2014 |
20140320927 | INKJET PRINTING WITH INCREASED GAMUT - A method for determining color separation image data for printing for an ink jet printer. Target colors are determined as a function of location in accordance with the image data, and color separation image data is determined specifying amounts of a fluorescent ink and one or more non-fluorescent reflective inks to be combined to form the target colors when printed on an ink receiver. For target colors having a specified hue angle the amount of the fluorescent ink is decreased as a density of the target color increases beyond a threshold density level. | 10-30-2014 |
20140333968 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A display processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive display information indicating whether gloss-control plane image data is displayed and whether clear plane image data is displayed. The gloss-control plane image data specifies a type of a surface effect applied to a recording medium and a glossy area to which the surface effect is to be applied, and indicates a color of the glossy area when being displayed. The clear plane image data specifies a transparent image formed on the recording medium and indicates a color of the transparent image when being displayed. The apparatus also includes a generating unit configured to synthesize color plane image data indicating a color image and one of the gloss-control plane image data and the clear plane image data that is specified to be displayed thus to generate a synthetic image. | 11-13-2014 |
20140340715 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an input unit that accepts input data, a detecting unit that detects line information from the input data, the line information indicating color information about a line included in the input data, color information about the background of the line, the width of the line, and a converting unit that converts the line information based on a contrast integrated value and the difference between the color information about the background and the color information about the line, the contrast integrated value being determined by the color information about the background, the color information about the line, and the width of the line. | 11-20-2014 |
20140347699 | METHOD OF MAKING CAMOUFLAGE - Methods are disclosed relating to the production of camouflage that include steps such as harvesting a set of objects that have a diversity of color from the environment, placing the set of objects within a scene, capturing a set of images of the scene, adjusting color in the set of images, assembling a composite image, printing the composite image, making color adjustments and reprinting the composite image. | 11-27-2014 |
20140376055 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND MEDIUM - An information processing method includes inputting a gradation object, rendering the input gradation object to obtain a rectangular bitmap including the rendered gradation object, generating a command for extracting pixels corresponding to the rendered gradation object from the obtained rectangular bitmap, and sending the obtained rectangular bitmap and the command for extracting the pixels from the obtained rectangular bitmap. | 12-25-2014 |
20150029557 | IMAGE RETOUCHING PROGRAM - Provided is photo retouching software which is easy for photo studio personnel to use. Upon opening photo image(s), special photo retoucher converts photo image data thereof to working color space image data. At such time(s), if working ICC profile(s) is/are set which is/are different from ICC profile(s) previously embedded in such photo image file(s), color perceptual matching is carried out on the photo image data thereof based on such embedded ICC profile(s) and working ICC profile(s) when such photo image file(s) is/are opened. Furthermore, when such photo image(s) is/are displayed at monitor(s), such image data is converted to monitor color space image data through color matching using working ICC profile(s) and monitor ICC profile(s). | 01-29-2015 |
20150049365 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORED WITH PROGRAM FOR IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming method using an image forming system including a master RIP and at least one slave RIP is provided. The slave RIP stores a printer profile of every paper to be printed by a printer connected to the slave RIP, registers paper relating information associating the printer profile with the paper and including a storage place for the printer profile, and transmits the paper relating information and the printer profile respectively to the master RIP. The master RIP receives the paper relating information and the printer profile, sets a paper in a print job, acquires the printer profile from the storage place associated with the set paper in the paper relating information, conducts color conversion of the print job by the printer profile instead of the slave RIP, and transmits the print job subjected to the color conversion to the slave RIP. | 02-19-2015 |
20150062654 | RECORDING DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, RECORDING DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording data generation apparatus is provided that generates recording data in CMYK form including color information related to CMYK values and color information other than the CMYK values based on image data in RGB form including color information related to RGB values and transparency information related to transparency degree. | 03-05-2015 |
20150085320 | IMAGE PROCESSING BASED ON AUTOMATIC IMAGE-TYPE DETECTION - Methods and systems divide an image into image blocks, determine a number of high-variation blocks within valid image blocks, determine a page variance measure by dividing the number of high-variation blocks by the total number of valid image blocks, and classify the image as comprising a halftone and/or text image if the page variance measure exceeds a halftone threshold. Such methods and systems classify the image as being a continuous tone image if the page variance measure does not exceed the halftone threshold and a text index is below a text index threshold, and classify the image as being a continuous tone and text image if the page variance measure does not exceed the halftone threshold and the text index is not below the text index threshold. Further, such methods and systems select an image processing mode based on such image classifications. | 03-26-2015 |
20150092240 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a quantization processing method using dither patterns that make it possible to obtain a dot array having excellent dispersibility even in the case of a single color or mixed color inks. For this purpose, first and second dither patterns are prepared in order to respectively quantize multivalued data for a first ink to different pieces of binary data, respectively. Also, third and fourth dither patterns are prepared in order to respectively quantize multivalued data for a second ink to different pieces of binary data. Further, on the basis of a combination of the multivalued data on the first ink and the multivalued data on the second ink, a quantization unit for the first ink, and a quantization unit for the second ink are determined. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092241 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus includes a generation unit; wherein a first dither pattern and a second dither pattern have same threshold values that are set for same pixels in a first gradation range, and have different threshold values that are set for same pixels in a second gradation range that exceeds the first gradation range; and the generation unit sets a first threshold value for forming dots of the first dither pattern, and generates a first binary data according to whether or not a threshold value corresponding to a target pixel of the first dither pattern is included in the first threshold value, and sets a second threshold value for forming dots of the second dither pattern, and generates a second binary data according to whether or not a threshold value corresponding to a target pixel of the second dither pattern is included in the second threshold value. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092242 | DITHER PATTERN GENERATION METHOD, DITHER PATTERN AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is a dither pattern generation method so that a dot arrangement having excellent dispersibility can be obtained in low-gradation areas for single colors and for mixed colors. The dither pattern generation method generates dot patterns for low-gradation areas having threshold values 1 to S so that high dispersibility is obtained in a cyan dot pattern and a magenta dot pattern, and so that in a combined dot pattern made by combining these dot patterns there are no overlapping pixels. The dither pattern generation method then sets threshold values for a cyan dither pattern and a magenta dither pattern based on these generated dot patterns. | 04-02-2015 |
20150103380 | Method and System for Halftone Printing - A method for halftone printing of an image may include receiving image data of an image to be printed. The method may also include processing the image data to generate, for each printing element of a plurality of printing elements which are designed to sharingly print a single color component of a color space, or for each pass of a single printing element which is designed to pass a plurality of passes over a single print area when printing that color component, a halftone pattern for the image for that color, that was independently generated for that printing element or for that pass. The method may further include printing, by each printing element of the plurality of printing elements or in each pass of a single printing element, the halftone pattern that was independently generated for that printing element or for that pass. | 04-16-2015 |
20150116778 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The information processing apparatus according to the present invention is configured to generate second print data without dividing image data into units of bands if it is determined that memory of the information processing apparatus for generating the second print data has been successfully allocated, and to generate first print data by dividing image data into units of bands if it is determined that the memory of the information processing apparatus for generating the second print data has failed to be allocated. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116779 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program stored in a recording medium are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a processing circuitry, and the processing circuitry and the image processing method obtain a color image output from an image forming unit, predict an output color of the image forming unit to generate a predicted color specification value independent from the image forming unit, extract from the input image data a colorimetry area for color difference determination, obtain a colorimetric value of an area of the color image that corresponds to the extracted colorimetry area, using a colorimeter, and add a colorimetric error at the colorimeter due to a color arrangement on the input image data to the predicted color specification value, to obtain a corrected colorimetric value of the area of the color image. | 04-30-2015 |
20150124295 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION - An information processing device includes an identifying unit, a generation unit, and a contour extraction unit. The identifying unit identifies a first object expressed by pixel data and a second object expressed by vector data from target image data including drawing information for each object. The generation unit performs rasterization based on first drawing information indicating the drawing information of the first object and second drawing information indicating the drawing information of the second object to generate combined image data, into which the first object and the second object are combined. The contour extraction unit extracts a contour from the combined image data. | 05-07-2015 |
20150131126 | PRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A print management system/method allowing definition of font-based vector artwork images (VAI) that may be associated with selected vector palette groups (VPG) for print publication is disclosed. The system/method operates to permit a publisher to define a catalog of VAIs and associated VPGs that together define sets of font-based presentation images (FPI). Customers may select among the various FPI to generate a proof/production print (PPP) file that is processed by a web server to generate an encapsulated document file (EDF) incorporating the PPP in addition to information supporting an electronic financial transaction (EFT) between the customer and publisher. The customer may transfer the EDF to a printer who then activates the EDF to affect both the print publication of the PPP and an ETF between the customer and publisher based on the number of physical prints of the PPP by the printer. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131127 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a receiving unit, a processing range determination unit, and a contour extraction unit. The receiving unit receives specified position information that indicates a position specified by a user with respect to a target image. The processing range determination unit determines, when a distance between a start point position that indicates a start point of positions indicated by the specified position information, and a position indicated by the latest specified position information is a threshold or less, a closed area obtained based on a history of the received specified position information as a processing range. The contour extraction unit extracts a contour of an object in the processing range. | 05-14-2015 |
20150138603 | PRINTER DRIVER DEVICE, PRINTER, AND PRINTER SYSTEM - A printer driver device includes: an ink-based maximum tone level determination unit configured to determine maximum tone levels for respective types of ink for raster data on an image generated by a layout setting section, based on contents of a print setting information of the image; and a data volume determination unit configured to generate tone datasets on the respective types of ink for each pixel of the image based on the maximum tone levels determined by the ink-based maximum tone level determination unit, and transfer the generated tone datasets as the raster data by connecting the generated tone datasets by use of a line-interleaved format or a band-sequential format. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138604 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING PRINT DATA OBTAINMENT TIMING, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing system that is capable of efficiently obtaining print data to perform printing without obtaining unnecessary print data from a server on a network with useless timing and continuously spooling it. The server generates attribute information including positional information on individual pages of print data. An image forming apparatus obtains the attribute information from the server. The image forming apparatus determines the number of network sessions based on a time period it took to obtain the attribute information, a size of data on a page to be printed in print data to be obtained from the server, and a restoration time period required to combine and restore the obtained data on the page to be printed. The image forming apparatus obtains the data on the page to be printed using network sessions corresponding in number to the determined number of network sessions. | 05-21-2015 |
20150304542 | Camera System, Colour Measuring System, and Offset Printing Press - The present invention relates to a camera system ( | 10-22-2015 |
20150316886 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE - An information processing apparatus includes an input unit that receives specifications of a color, a type of a surface effect that is a visual or a tactile effect, and a region to which the surface effect is applied, with respect to input image data; a generating unit that generates color data and gloss control data based on the specifications, the gloss control data being data which is used for generating clear toner data and in which a gloss control value is specified for identifying the type of the surface effect applied to the recording medium and for identifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium; and a sending unit that sends the color data and the gloss control data to a print control apparatus. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317544 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus, including: an output image processing section which performs, on image data, predetermined image processing according to image formation; an output section that outputs processed image data, on which the image processing is performed, in accordance with an operation timing according to the image formation by an image forming section; a correction section which corrects setting of the image processing on the image data; an image processing control section which controls an operation of the output image processing section, stores the processed image data in an external storage section and controls the correction section to perform correction depending on a predetermined correction condition; and an output control section which reads out the processed image data from the external storage section and inputs the processed image data to the output section. | 11-05-2015 |
20150371122 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR CORRECTING A LINE IMAGE - An image processing apparatus increases, in the case of a low-density line, the density of a pixel included in the line to increase the density of the line, and increases, in the case of a high-density line, the density of a pixel adjacent to the pixel included in the line to increase the width of the line. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373226 | METHOD FOR PRINTING A COLOUR PIXEL MATRIX ON A PHYSICAL MEDIUM BY PRINTING OBLIQUE LINES AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL DEVICE - A method designed to allow the printing of a matrix (MPC) of pixels, in N colours defining a colour coding system, on a selected part of a physical medium (MP). That method comprises a stage in which colour pixels are printed in at least one pass along oblique lines in relation to the physical medium (MP), wherein the pixels of an oblique line are all in the same colour selected from the N colours and different from that used for the previous oblique line, in order to generate a matrix (MPC) of M horizontal lines comprising P pixels each in the N colours successively in a selected order, and wherein each horizontal line other than the first one comprises a first pixel that is identical to the second pixel of the previous horizontal line. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373227 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM - An image processing method includes reading a document on which a halftone-processed image is printed, performing smoothing processing on image data acquired by reading the document, setting a target region of a predetermined size to the smoothed image data and then calculating a degree of variation in signal values of a plurality of pixels included in the target region, determining a brightness correction amount for the target region based on the calculated degree of variation and the signal values of the plurality of pixels included in the target region, and performing brightness correction on the target region in the image data acquired by reading the document, based on the determined brightness correction amount. | 12-24-2015 |
20160014300 | Image Binarization | 01-14-2016 |
20160019015 | PRINT IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PRINT IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY METHOD OF PRINT IMAGE SELECTION SCREEN - A print image processing device includes an input unit to which print conditions are input, a conversion unit (a printer driver) which converts image information into a print image, and a display unit which displays selection candidates (sample images) of the print image which is formed based on the input print conditions in a selectable manner. | 01-21-2016 |
20160034791 | METHOD FOR DYNAMIC PRINTING PROCESS CALIBRATION - A method for the dynamic printing process calibration of a printing press includes determining a calibration dataset for the colored halftones of the process colors, determining a calibration dataset for the gray halftones of the process colors, determining a weighting factor for the two calibration datasets as a function of the original print and calculating a combined calibration dataset from the two determined calibration datasets, with reference to the weighting factor. The calculated combined calibration dataset is applied to the calibration of the printing process of a printing press. | 02-04-2016 |
20160044207 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a pattern image forming device, a density information detector, and a gradation correction amount calculator. The pattern image forming device forms a pattern image for use in gradation correction on a recording medium. The density information detector detects density information from the recording medium on which the pattern image is formed by the pattern image forming device. The gradation correction amount calculator calculates a gradation correction amount using the density information detected by the density information detector and a feedback rate in accordance with differences among two or more density adjustment modes. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044211 | COLOR CONVERSION METHOD, COLOR CONVERSION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A color conversion method includes: a step (a) of obtaining paper white information including a spectral reflectance and a scanner response value of a paper white portion of a document, a step (b) of searching for a registered scanner profile corresponding to paper white information the same as or similar to the paper white information, from a plurality of registered scanner profiles for paper types, and a step (c) of determining whether a new scanner profile needs to be created corresponding to the paper white information obtained in the step (a), according to a result of searching in the step (b). | 02-11-2016 |
20160065789 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus for processing image data in which color data and attribute data of each pixel are arranged in a dot sequential format, includes an arrangement converting section which separates the color data and the attribute data in the image data and converts arrangement into a face sequential format of a color data group and an attribute data group; and a compressing section which lossily compresses the color data group and losslessly compresses the attribute data group. | 03-03-2016 |
20160072980 | Creation and Identification of Unforgeable Printable Image Information Data - The present application relates to a method for producing and authenticating unforgeable printable image comprising information color values and inference color values. The present application further provides for unforgeable printed images. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072982 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In order to suitably perform image processing for enhancing edge reproducibility on an image, an image processing apparatus, determines whether or not a pixel of interest in an input image is a pixel configuring an edge, and determines whether or not the pixel of interest in the input image is a pixel configuring a semi-transparent object. In addition, the apparatus performs image processing for enhancing edge reproducibility for the pixel of interest if it is determined that the pixel of interest is a pixel configuring an edge and is not a pixel configuring a semi-transparent object. On the other hand, the apparatus inhibits execution of the image processing for the pixel of interest if it is determined that the pixel of interest is a pixel configuring an edge and is a pixel configuring a semi-transparent object. | 03-10-2016 |
20160088181 | ENCODING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A DATA-BEARING HALFTONE IMAGE, AND DECODING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECODING THE DATA-BEARING IMAGE - An encoding system is for generating a data-bearing halftone image. The encoding system is configured to: convert a grayscale image into a halftone image having a plurality of image cells ; select, from the halftone image, at least one of the image cells to be a carrier cell according to a set of reference dot patterns, the carrier cell having a dot pattern identical to one of the reference dot patterns ; and generate a data-bearing halftone image by replacing the dot pattern of the carrier cell by a specified one of multiple encoding dot patterns of one of a plurality of the sets of encoding dot patterns each being associated with a code. The data-bearing halftone image is encoded with a code associated with the one of the sets of the encoding dot patterns. | 03-24-2016 |
20160105586 | HISTORY GENERATING APPARATUS AND HISTORY GENERATING METHOD - A history generating apparatus includes an image generating section, an image reading section and a history generating section. The image generating section generates a bitmap first image and generates initial attribute information indicating attributes of respective pixels of the first image. The image reading section reads an image based on the first image formed on paper so as to generate a bitmap second image. The history generating section separates the second image into image regions by attribute indicated by the initial attribute information, performs image processing on each of the image regions according to the attribute and combines the image regions so as to generate a history image. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110140 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - According to an aspect of the invention, an image processing device includes a storage that stores character information, which is information affecting legibility of a character, on a character-by-character basis, and circuitry configured to determine a toner saving ratio for each character contained in a to-be-printed image so that legibility of the character achieves a preset target value at the determined toner saving ratio by assessing the legibility of the character based on the character information. | 04-21-2016 |
20160119502 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing device includes a first gradation processor to apply first pseudo halftone processing to image data, an edge detector to detect an edge portion of the image data to output a detection result, a correction value calculator to calculate an edge correction amount and convert the image data to corrected image data based on the edge correction amount, a second gradation processor to apply, to the corrected image data, second pseudo halftone processing for edge processing, and an output selector to adopt a processing result at the first gradation processor to a non-edge portion of the image data, and a processing result at the second gradation processor to an edge portion of the image data, based on the detection result at the edge detector. | 04-28-2016 |
20160132277 | PRINT PATH OBFUSCATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT CONTENT ANALYTICS ASSESSMENT - Disclosed is a method and system of differential processing a print job including one or more original documents to render an obfuscated version of the print job. According to an exemplary method, the differential process replaces letters of an original document with randomly selected characters of substantially the same size and location as the original document and objects such as images/graphics are replaced with blurred versions of substantially the same size and locations as the objects in the original document. The differential process creates an obfuscated version of the print job which is illegible and useful for further processing where privacy of documents included in the print job is required. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134768 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an area extracting unit and a table image detecting unit. The area extracting unit is configured to extract halftone dot areas and character images in an image. The table image detecting unit is configured to detect the extracted halftone dot areas as a table image if (a) the extracted halftone dot areas include no ruled lines, (b) plural halftone dot areas among the extracted halftone dot areas are arrayed in a primary scanning direction and/or a secondary scanning direction, and (c) the arrayed plural halftone dot areas include the character images at at least two positions. | 05-12-2016 |
20160144645 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a reading section, an image processing section and a printing section. The reading section reads an image on a sheet to generate image data. The image processing section detects, from the image data, an identification image indicating that printing is carried out with decolorable toner, and decolors the detected identification image from the image data. The printing section prints the image data output from the image processing section. | 05-26-2016 |
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20160381249 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A favorable image for which an attribute of each object being taken into consideration is obtained without the need to specify in detail various kinds of image processing to be applied to image data. An image processing apparatus including: an image processing unit configured to perform predetermined image processing on image data; a user interface for a user to set contents of the image processing; and a setting management unit configured to limit a portion of the image data to which the set contents of the image processing are applied in accordance with the contents set via the user interface. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381252 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image processing apparatus for processing image data to be input, an edge image of which a pixel value changes between pixels is extracted from a generated drawing image of each color. Further, processing for expanding an edge amount is performed with respect to the extracted edge image, and brightness of a pixel of the drawing image corresponding to a pixel of the expanded edge image is adjusted based on the extracted edge amount. | 12-29-2016 |
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