| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080278764 | Image Processing Apparatus, Program, Image Forming Apparatus, Image Forming Method, And Dither Matrix - An organized dither matrix is composed of a main matrix having dispersibility and a sub-matrix having randomness, and the intensity of a frequency characteristic of an output image relatively increases from a low frequency component, through an intermediate frequency component, to a high frequency component in respective tone levels. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090051734 | Imaging method and inkjet recording apparatus - An imaging method is disclosed for realizing full color printing using an ink head configured to discharge black ink and a plurality of color inks. The imaging method involves printing a monochrome image portion by printing a plurality of first rasters using black ink and an arbitrary number of the color inks, and printing a second raster in between the first rasters using pseudo black ink that is realized by the remaining number of the color inks. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090080002 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, PIGMENTED INK, AND RECORDED MATTER - A disclosed inkjet recording apparatus for performing recording by jetting a recording liquid onto a recording medium includes an image processing unit configured to obtain an output halftone level by performing halftone processing on input image data, to select a dot arrangement order according to the obtained output halftone level, and thereby to generate dot data where dots are arranged in a grid-like pattern. The disclosed inkjet recording apparatus is configured to use a pigmented ink as the recording liquid when the recording medium is a commercial printing paper, and to record the dots in a staggered arrangement where positions of the dots in odd/even-numbered columns or odd/even-numbered rows in the dot data are shifted in a sub-scanning direction or in a main-scanning direction. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090207453 | Image-processing apparatus, an image-forming apparatus, and a program - An image-processing apparatus for quantizing multi-level (M-level) image data into N-level values, where M>N>1, using a multi-level error-diffusion process or a minimum-average multi-level error method is disclosed. | 08-20-2009 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090153655 | GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A gesture recognition apparatus including a detector, a controller and a gesture recognizer, and is able to detect a portion to be detected using an image captured at a first resolution without reducing the number of images to be entered per unit of time to an object detector by detecting an auxiliary portion instead when the portion to be detected is not detected at a second resolution, estimating the position of the auxiliary portion based on the position of the auxiliary portion, and extracting the periphery thereof from the image captured at the first resolution. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090262981 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus estimates an estimated object region including an object on an input image on the basis of a stored object data, obtains a similarity distribution of the estimated object region and peripheral regions thereof by at least one classifier, and obtains an object region coordinate and a template image on the basis of the similarity distribution. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090295927 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image-capturing module configured to captures an image, a module configured to detect a first object region from the image, a module configured to extract color information of an image of the first object region, a module configured to detect candidates of a second object region, which is an object of recognition, from the image, a module configured to extract color information of an image of the second object region, and sets reference color data, a module configured to select the candidates of the second object region on the basis of the reference color data and the color information of the image of the first object region with respect to each of the candidates of the second object region, and a module configured to output, as an object of recognition, any one of the candidates of the second object region. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100034464 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRACKING IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes a classification unit configured to extract N features from an input image using pre-generated N feature extraction units and calculate confidence value which represents object-likelihood based on the extracted N features, an object detection unit configured to detect an object included in the input image based on the confidence value, a feature selection unit configured to select M feature extraction units from the N feature extraction units such that separability between the confidence value of the object and that of background thereof becomes greater than a case where the N feature extraction units are used, the M being a positive integer smaller than N, and an object tracking unit configured to extract M features from the input image and tracks the object using the M features selected by the feature selection unit. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100183221 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image-capturing module configured to captures an image, a module configured to detect a first object region from the image, a module configured to extract color information of an image of the first object region, a module configured to detect candidates of a second object region, which is an object of recognition, from the image, a module configured to extract color information of an image of the second object region, and sets reference color data, a module configured to select the candidates of the second object region on the basis of the reference color data and the color information of the image of the first object region with respect to each of the candidates of the second object region, and a module configured to output, as an object of recognition, any one of the candidates of the second object region. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100245266 | HANDWRITING PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND METHOD - A handwriting processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire coordinate information of handwriting input by an input unit and attribute information, the attribute information indicating a type of input of the handwriting; a determining unit configured to determined a kind of the handwriting using the attribute information; a handwriting processing unit configured to perform handwriting processing corresponding to the kind of the handwriting using the coordinate information; and a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display a result of the handwriting processing. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110013805 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND INTERFACE APPARATUS - In order to detect a specific detection object from an input image, a color serving as a reference is calculated in a reference image region. The difference for each color component between each pixel in the detection window and the reference color is calculated. Whether or not the detection object is included in the detection window is discriminated by a feature vector indicating how the difference is distributed in the detection window. | 01-20-2011 |