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| 20090027699 | IMAGE-PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A comparison is made between image data and a predetermined image pattern and data on a specific area is extracted from the image data based on the comparison result, and dot data is added at a position away from an end of the specific area subjected to the signal-level reduction by as much as a predetermined distance. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090086227 | DEVICE FOR CHANGING SCREEN RULING FOR IMAGE FORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LUMINANCE AND SATURATION - The present invention relates to a device that, in printing of controlling the amount of color materials applied, changes a screen ruling for image formation according to the relationship between luminance and saturation. A first component obtains color component data of a plurality of colors so that the total amount of controlled variable in each pixel does not exceed a first limit amount. A second component obtains color component data of a plurality of colors so that the total amount of controlled variable in each pixel does not exceed a second limit amount by performing color conversion processing different from the color conversion processing with the first component. A third component performs pseudo halftone processing by changing a screen ruling to be applied to the color component data of a plurality of colors obtained by the color conversion processing with the second component from chromaticity of color image data. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090214231 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus having a development unit which develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier to form a visible image, the apparatus has an input unit adapted to accept input of a print job; an analysis unit adapted to analyze contents of image data included in the print job and contents of a print setting for controlling printout based on the image data; a prediction unit adapted to predict, based on an analysis result by the analysis unit, a consumption amount of a developing material necessary to develop an electrostatic latent image by the development unit when an electrostatic latent image based on the image data is formed; and a supply control unit adapted to control, based on the consumption amount of the developing material that is predicted by the prediction unit, a supply unit which supplies the developing material to the development unit. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100014108 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention discloses an image processing method and an image processing apparatus which is capable of preventing wasteful consumption of toner and an increase in processing time when a page including information not desired by a user such as an advertisement on a Web page is printed. According to the image forming method of the present invention, the image forming method includes a mode for printing image data without change and a mode for simplifying and printing the image data or not printing the image data, and executes print processing according to a mode set by the user. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100182453 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus has an inputting unit for inputting: image data including image data shot using a bracket shooting function; and an instruction for correction processing on the image data. The image processing apparatus also has a selecting unit for, in a case where the image data stored in the storage unit is image data that has been shot using a bracket shooting function corresponding to the correction processing instruction, selecting the image data shot using the bracket shooting function corresponding to the correction processing instruction from the image data stored in the storage unit. And, the image processing apparatus also has a processing unit for, in a case where there is no image data in the storage unit that corresponds to the correction processing instruction, performing the correction processing on the image data input by the inputting unit. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100231936 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a designating unit that designates a color to be output in a target color, an analyzing unit that extracts, with regard to input image data, coordinates of a location to be output in the designated target color, and page information that specifies a page that includes the coordinates, a colorimetry unit that measures a color of an image that is on a page prior to a page with respect to which the color to be output in the target color was designated, and that was obtained by forming an image based on data including the designated color, a generating unit that generates correction data for approximating a color resulting from the colorimetry to the target color, and a correcting unit that corrects color data of the location in the targeted page to be output in the target color. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110116114 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD FOR PERFORMING COLOR DEVIATION CORRECTION - A problem in conventional electrical color deviation correction is that an awkward step is generated at a border where a pixel is offset by one-pixel-basis correction. Although such a step can be cancelled by less-than-one-pixel-basis correction, this smoothing process in turn generates unevenness in density. To solve these problems, in electrical color deviation correction, a draw command is analyzed to specify a draw position for color deviation correction for each of draw objects. Then, the object is drawn at the specified draw position, and an offset for color deviation correction is performed on an object basis. | 05-19-2011 |
