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20090207454 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - A document processing apparatus which is capable of causing predetermined processes to be performed using sheets of one fixed format, in both of the case of scanning a fixed format sheet which has a description entered therein and the case of scanning a sheet which has a description entered therein but is other than the fixed format sheet. When a fixed format sheet having an entry made thereto is scanned in, a multifunction machine executes a first document processing process. When a fixed format sheet has been previously scanned in, if a sheet other than the fixed format sheet is scanned in, the multifunction machine executes s second document processing process. When no fixed format sheet has not been previously scanned in, if a sheet other than the fixed format sheet is scanned in, the multifunction machine executes a usual process. | 08-20-2009 |
20090207455 | Image processing according to image output mode - Picture quality adjustment processing is executed using picture quality adjustment parameter value sets corresponding to a plurality of output modes. First and second image processing modules can execute the same picture quality adjustment, and they can utilize picture quality adjustment parameters in common. If picture quality adjustment is executed by the first image processing module, picture quality adjustment by the second image processing module is prohibited. | 08-20-2009 |
20090284799 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND PROGRAM - An image processing device configured to analyze image data of an image in which a person is photographed is provided. The image processing device is configured to perform a masking process of a nearly rectangular shape on an eye portion of a face of the person. The image processing device has a controller configured to detect both eyes of the person. The controller is configured to determine an inclination of the nearly rectangular shape on which the masking process is performed with respect to the image on the basis of an inclination of a straight line connecting the detected eyes. | 11-19-2009 |
20090284800 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS HANDLING COPY-FORGERY-INHIBITED PATTERN IMAGE DATA - To solve a problem that, when an output object with a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is copied on a copying machine into which a super-resolution technology is introduced, a hidden character is not revealed. An image processing apparatus includes unit for obtaining a plurality of low-resolution images, a super-resolution processing unit for generating a high-resolution image using the plurality of low-resolution images, a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern detection unit for detecting a pattern of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern using the high-resolution image, and a control unit for switching between the high-resolution image and the low-resolution image based on the detection result of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern detection unit to output an image. | 11-19-2009 |
20090296157 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which sends attribute information to an output correction unit configured to determine based on the attribute information whether to print with only a black coloring material (K) or to print with a plurality of coloring materials (CMYK), includes an attribute change unit configured to make a determination to perform processing for changing the attribute information of compressed data, whose rendering color is monochrome and which is compressed by a compression format (MMR) for compressing a monochromatic image, from an attribute which is printed with a plurality of coloring materials to an attribute which is printed with only a black coloring material, and to perform the processing for changing the attribute information based on the determination. | 12-03-2009 |
20100007924 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The invention provides an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a recording medium and a program capable of suppressing security dots from being reproducible visibly while enhancing reproduction of a color, in an original, specified by a user, in the process of forming a monochrome image from a color image. The image processing apparatus includes a unit for taking a color image, a unit for separating a color image into respective color elements, a unit for judging the security dots through the use of the separated data, and a unit that, when it is judged that security dots are included, recalculates the blending ratio through the use of the security dot judgment result to convert the color image into a monochrome image. | 01-14-2010 |
20100046036 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - A region of a latent image and that of a background image in a first dot image are converted into binary data so as to have different binary data, and a region of the latent image in the binary data is converted into dot data by expressing that region as dots. A second dot image is converted into outline data by removing dots of a region corresponding to the region of the latent image to form an outline region. The converted dot data and converted outline data are composited to generate a dot image including the outline data as a latent image and the dot data as a background image. | 02-25-2010 |
20100053687 | Apparatus and method of concealing information of image data - When image data of an original document is detected to include specific information indicating outputting of the original document is prohibited, a selected color component of the image data is applied with concealing processing to make image data of the selected color component to be solid image data. The selected color component is determined based on whether outputting of the original document as a monochrome image is allowed or prohibited. | 03-04-2010 |
20100053688 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which makes it possible not only to improve reusability of data in another apparatus, but also to increase the speed of data output. If a process is requested to be executed on the image data and the file data contains data usable by the image processing apparatus in addition to the image data, the apparatus executes the requested process using the usable data, whereas if the file data does not contain data usable by the image processing apparatus in addition to the image data, the apparatus executes the requested process using the image data. Further, the apparatus adds data generated during execution of the requested process using the image data to the file data, as data usable by the apparatus. | 03-04-2010 |
20100073729 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORM - An image forming apparatus includes a print data receiving unit that receives print data designating black as a color material for printing a code information portion; a discriminating unit that discriminates as to whether or not black as a color material is in a usable state; a print data generation unit that generates, when the discriminating unit discriminates that the color material of black is not the usable state, the print data that changes a designation of the color material of black as to the code information portion of the print data received by the print data receiving portion into a designation of other color material enabling the code information to be read by a code information reading apparatus; and an image forming unit that forms an image by the print data thus changed by the print data generation unit. | 03-25-2010 |
20100079817 | 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. | 04-01-2010 |
20100079818 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO IMPROVE IMAGE QUALITY AND IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT METHOD - An image forming apparatus to improve image quality. An image forming apparatus includes an object dividing unit to divide scanned image data into objects, an object size estimation unit to estimate a size of each object, a controlling unit to determine whether to perform image quality enhancement processing for each object according to the estimated size of the object, and an image quality enhancement unit to perform image quality enhancement processing for the objects according to the determination of the controlling unit. Therefore, when a document is printed, data having optimum quality are provided. | 04-01-2010 |
20100085606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT RENDERING DEVICE RESOURCE CONSERVATION - The subject application is directed to a document rendering device resource conservation system and method. Threshold parameter data of acceptable resource usage levels in an associated document rendering device, and default setting data corresponding to the threshold parameters, are stored in data storage. Electronic document data is received, as well as request data of desired settings for rendering the document on the device. Settings associated with the request data are compared to threshold parameters corresponding to the parameter data. A notification is generated upon a determination that the settings associated with the request exceed the threshold parameters. The user is then prompted relative to an alternative setting of the device. Confirmation of the acceptability of an alternative setting is received from the user. Operation of the device is enabled in accordance with alternative setting data, and a document rendering operation is performed by the document rendering device. | 04-08-2010 |
20100091333 | Method and Printer System for Reducing Image Print Grain Effect - A method and an imaging apparatus for reducing print grain effect in an image to be printed by a printing device are disclosed. One or more flat field areas, each comprising at least one flat field pixel, are detected in the image. A color value of each detected flat field pixel in the one or more flat field areas is modified using a unique flat field optimized color lookup table. The modification of the color value of each flat field pixel in the image reduces the print grain effect in the image to be printed by the printing device. | 04-15-2010 |
20100118348 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Characteristic data representing the metallic luster characteristic of each of a plurality of kinds of printing materials to be used by a printing apparatus is acquired. On the basis of a stimulus value represented by the acquired characteristic data corresponding to each of the plurality of kinds of printing materials, an overlay order is determined to form an image on the printing medium by overlaying a printing material having a smaller stimulus value on a printing material having a large stimulus value. The print data is generated in accordance with the determined overlay order. | 05-13-2010 |
20100171990 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus according to the present invention is capable of executing printing processes for color images and monochromatic images and comprises a printer section capable of executing processes for color printing and monochromatic printing and a printing task management section for receiving a plurality of printing jobs including color printing jobs and monochromatic printing jobs as input, computationally determining the processing time required for each of the printing processes on the basis of the information indicating color printing or monochromatic printing and the information indicating the number of copies to be printed and outputting the data of the printing jobs of short processing time separately for monochromatic printing and color printing with priority to the printer section. | 07-08-2010 |
20100214619 | Image processing device and method of processing image - An image processing device for arranging and printing images of a plurality of documents on a single recording sheet includes a memory part configured to memorize: image information and sizes of documents, a size of the single recording sheet, and a number of the documents; an input part configured to input image information, a document size detecting part configured to detect sizes of the documents; and an editing part configured to compare the sizes of the documents with a divided area of the single recording sheet. The editing part is further configured to arrange and print the image information of one of the documents on the single recording sheet without reducing the image of the one of the documents when the size of the document is equal to or less than the size of the divided area of the single recording sheet. | 08-26-2010 |
20100238512 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PRINTING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a designation unit configured to designate a concealing procedure of variable data relating to print data containing reusable data and variable data, an attribute addition unit configured to add, according to the concealing procedure designated by the designation method, concealment attributes relating to the concealing procedure of the variable data, to print attributes of the print data in association with the variable data, and a transferring unit configured to transfer a print job containing information relating to the print data and the print attributes to which the concealment attributes have been added by the attribute addition unit, to a printing apparatus. | 09-23-2010 |
20100296127 | PRINTING USING COLOR CHANGEABLE MATERIAL - In one embodiment, provided is a system for printing data on a flexible substrate that has a color-changeable materials associated therewith. The system comprises a data source that may be configured to provide data to be printed on the flexible substrate, a processing circuit, and an energy source. The processing circuit may be configured to retrieve the data from the data source and to control the energy source to change a color of the color-changeable material based on the retrieved data. | 11-25-2010 |
20110026082 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CORRECTION CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus for which a first mode using toners of plural colors including a black toner and a second mode using only the black toner can be set, includes a first printing cumulatively counting part that cumulatively counts a first number of pages for which image forming has been executed by using the toners of plural colors; a first printing determining part that determines whether the first number of pages counted by the first printing cumulatively counting part has exceeded a threshold; and a correction control part that controls not to execute a correcting process for image forming that uses the toners of plural colors but to execute a correcting process for image forming that uses only the black toner, when the second mode has been set in a case where the first printing determining part has determined that the first number of pages has exceeded the threshold. | 02-03-2011 |
20110038011 | PRINTING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING DEVICE - A problem to be solved by the present invention is to reduce workload of setting colors that are most suitable for printing image data. In order to solve the problem, a printing device according to the present invention is a printing device that can be loaded with M color materials, comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires image data; an analysis unit that analyzes the image data acquired by the acquisition unit; and a determination unit that determines, based on the analysis result by the analysis unit, N priority colors from colors of the M color materials where N is a number less than M. | 02-17-2011 |
20110043863 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes an image reader that reads each of the plurality of documents and obtains image data corresponding thereto; a code detection/analysis portion that detects, from the image data, identification codes included in the documents and including output processing information which is information relating to an output processing method for the image data; a image group extraction portion that extracts an image data group made up of image data including the output processing information that is identical with each another; and a representative image determination portion that determines, within the image data group, at least one piece of representative image data; and a code deletion portion that deletes identification codes other than those for the representative image data within the image data group. | 02-24-2011 |
20110051199 | METHOD OF PRINTING DOCUMENT BASED ON BLACK OPTIMIZATION PRINTING OPTION AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND HOST DEVICE TO PERFORM THE SAME - A method of controlling an image forming apparatus supporting a black optimization printing option in a host apparatus includes executing a printer driver of the image forming apparatus, setting the black optimization printing option in a user interface of the executed printer driver, generating a second color matching table by using an existing first color matching table and color properties corresponding to red, blue, and green values of a document to be printed based on the set black optimization printing option, selecting a first printing method to print the document by using the first color matching table or a second printing method to print the document by using the second color matching table, based on the red, green, and blue values of the document, and transmitting the document and print data of the document to which a color matching table corresponding to the selected printing method is applied to the image forming apparatus. | 03-03-2011 |
20110102849 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes: a ground image producing unit which produces a ground image that determines a print position of an information image; a ground image printing unit which prints the ground image produced by the ground image producing unit, with a printing color material which does not have a sensitivity in a reading wavelength of a reading apparatus that reads the information image; and an information image printing unit which prints the information image at a print position that is determined by the ground image printed by the ground image printing unit. | 05-05-2011 |
20110116138 | Post Color Conversion Mechanism for Gray/Black Text and Graphics Objects - A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving color data for an object to be printed and performing post color processing for each pixel in the object if the object is a graphics/text object, while no processing is performed if the object is an image object. Post color processing is performed by determining if a pixel is black or gray and converting the pixel to K only black color if the pixel is black or gray. | 05-19-2011 |
20110128587 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus according to the present invention performs rendering logic sequence determination, rendering region determination, and transparency conversion determination, and, if conversion to a transparent object is determined to be necessary, performs pattern conversion to convert a target pattern into a transparent object. | 06-02-2011 |
20110164287 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COLOR PROCESSING METHOD - It is difficult to appropriately estimate the colorimetric values of an arbitrary patch at a desired temperature with respect to a medium containing a fluorescent whitening agent in consideration of the influence of the fluorescent whitening agent. A target temperature and media type are designated (S | 07-07-2011 |
20110170142 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus for converting input image data into output image data for an image forming apparatus configured to output an image with the use of coloring material, which includes a unit configured to perform a coloring-material usage amount reduction process of converting the input image data into the output image data such that an amount of the coloring material used for color-printing the input image data becomes a target coloring-material usage amount defined based on a monochrome-printing coloring-material usage amount required for monochrome-printing the input image data. | 07-14-2011 |
20110188089 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION OF THE VISUALLY PERCEIVED COLOR IMPRESSION OF MULTICOLOR COLOR IMAGES - A method and arrangement that automatically verify a visually perceived color impression of multicolor color images in a printed product having text in addition to color images includes digitally storing a reference image in a database for each multicolor color image to be verified, scanning the printed product uses an imaging sensor, and converts the signal obtained into a digital image file. The digital image file is broken down into regions containing text or graphics and into regions of color images without text or graphics. A statistical descriptive feature of colors occurring and a measure of image sharpness are calculated for each region consisting of a multicolor color image, and are then compared with stored data for the reference image. Deviation rates for the statistical descriptive feature of the colors occurring and for the measure of the image sharpness are calculated and displayed. | 08-04-2011 |
20110205596 | Image Forming Apparatus - An MFP places, in a standby state, a printing job (a first printing job) corresponding to a predetermined attribute among accepted printing jobs. A printing job other than the first printing job (a second printing job) is immediately processed. Then, the first printing job placed in a standby state is executed under condition of “execution of an obtaining process triggered by start of a process of the second printing job”. | 08-25-2011 |
20110267654 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - Read image data is segmented into a plurality of regions in accordance with the attribute of the image data. A region to be printed using a transparent toner is set in accordance with the attributes of the plurality of segmented regions. A preview of the image represented by the image data is displayed, in which the region set to be printed using the transparent toner is distinguished from the remaining regions. An instruction to change the region to be printed using the transparent toner is accepted based on the displayed preview. Print data for the transparent toner to print, using the transparent toner, a region determined based on the change instruction to be printed using the transparent toner is generated. | 11-03-2011 |
20110304887 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PERFORMING ACCURATE GRADATION CORRECTION - An image forming apparatus capable of performing accurate gradation correction in a range of density where measurement by a toner density detection unit is impossible. A printer unit forms a gradation pattern on an image bearing member. A density detection sensor detects density of the gradation pattern. A first correction value for correcting gradation of the image data is calculated based on density of the gradation pattern, detected by the density detection sensor, and a second correction value for correcting gradation of the image data is calculated based on the estimated condition of toner with which a toner image is formed on the image bearing member. An output gamma correction unit corrects density in a low density range of the toner image based on the first correction value, and corrects density in a high density range of the toner image based on the second correction value. | 12-15-2011 |
20110310438 | PRE-PRINT ENHANCEMENT OF A RASTER IMAGE - A method for pre-print enhancement of a raster image is disclosed. The method includes receiving the raster image, categorizing an element in the raster image as a graphical element or an image element; and if the element is categorized as a graphical element applying graphical enhancement to the graphical element. A computer program product for pre-print enhancement of a raster image is also disclosed. | 12-22-2011 |
20110310439 | OPTIMIZED FONT SUBSETTING FOR A PRINT PATH - Subject matter described herein is directed to providing font-rendering information (e.g., XPS file) that is usable to print a document. For example, a font file is received that defines a font type included in the document. A determination is made that a quantity of pages of the document does not exceed a subsetting-optimization threshold. When the quantity of pages does not exceed the threshold, a subsetted font file of the font type is generated. The subsetted file is provided, such as via the spool file, to a print subsystem. | 12-22-2011 |
20120057207 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TRACE DATA STORING METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus, which includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium and generate trace data. The image forming apparatus further includes a first storing unit, a second storing unit, and a control unit configured to allow the trace data generated from the image forming unit to be stored in the first storing unit, and further configured to allow the trace data stored in the first storing unit to be stored in the second storing unit upon occurrence of an error. | 03-08-2012 |
20120086987 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A limit value of a recording material is determined based on a difference between a maximum density value of an image formed by an image forming unit and a maximum density value to be targeted by an image processing apparatus, and the amount of the recording material corresponding to the image data is controlled so as to be the determined limit value or below. | 04-12-2012 |
20120162720 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus capable of forming an image with a colored toner and a transparent toner based on image data of a read document, including a dispersion calculation unit that calculates a dispersion of a target pixel and a group of pixels including the target pixel and peripheral pixels of the target pixel; an applying area determining unit that determines whether to apply the transparent toner on the target pixel based on the dispersion of the target pixel; and an amount determining unit that determines an amount of the transparent toner to be applied on the target pixel for which the transparent toner is determined to be applied based on the dispersion of the target pixel. | 06-28-2012 |
20120206772 | OPTIMAL CONTRAST LEVEL DRAFT-MODE PRINTING USING SPATIAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS - Devices and methods herein receive a command into a computerized device to perform a printing draft operation of a printable item using a reduced amount of marking material (a reduced amount of ink, toner, etc.). The methods herein evaluate at least two different regions of the printable item to determine spatial frequencies of the different regions, and calculate at least two marking material reduction values for the different regions of the printable item based on the spatial frequencies of the different regions. Then, the methods herein apply the marking material reduction values to the printable item to produce a file containing reduced marking material printing commands for a printing device to print the printable item. | 08-16-2012 |
20120212786 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a pixel extracting unit, a correction quantity calculating unit, a selection image storage unit, a selection receiving unit, and a color correction executing unit. The pixel extracting unit extracts a pixel from predetermined image data. The correction quantity calculating unit calculates a color correction quantity based on a color difference between a color of the pixel extracted by the pixel extracting unit and a target color. The selection image storage unit stores data of a selection image representing an external appearance of each image data obtained by executing color correction on the pixel according to the color correction quantity. The selection receiving unit receives selection of a color correction type. The color correction executing unit executes color correction on the extracted pixel in image data of a correction object according to a color correction quantity corresponding to the color correction type. | 08-23-2012 |
20120250097 | CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - A control device includes a toner-density-related value identifying unit, a supply-amount-related value identifying unit, and a correcting unit. The toner-density-related value identifying unit identifies a toner-density-related value indicating the ratio of toner in developer including toner and carrier and contained in a developing unit that contains and agitates the developer. The supply-amount-related value identifying unit identifies the supply-amount-related value of developer to the developing unit. The correcting unit corrects the toner-density-related value identified by the toner-density-related value identifying unit in accordance with the supply-amount-related value identified by the supply-amount-related value identifying unit. The supply-amount-related value identifying unit estimates the supply-amount-related value on the basis of the consumption-amount-related value of developer. | 10-04-2012 |
20120257258 | PRINT SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS USED IN THE PRINT SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - Upon receiving information that indicates the type of printing medium from an information processing apparatus, a printing apparatus determines whether a parameter corresponding to the type of printing medium indicated by the information is stored. When it is determined that the parameter is stored, the printing apparatus transmits the parameter to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus performs color correction for image data using the parameter received from the printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus transmits the color-corrected image data to the printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus prints an image based on the color-corrected image data. | 10-11-2012 |
20130120801 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a conversion unit and a determination unit to convert image data into color material data including color material data indicating a color material amount of a chromatic color material and color material data indicating a color material amount of an achromatic color material. The conversion unit converts image data of a region of interest in an image into the color material data of the chromatic color material. The determination unit determines the color material data of the achromatic color material corresponding to the image data so that a color indicated by coloring information corresponding to the image data of the region of interest in the image approaches an achromatic color. | 05-16-2013 |
20130148169 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR PREVENTING PERFORMANCE REDUCTION IN IMAGE FORMING - An image forming apparatus determines, with respect to intermediate data including a start edge and an end edge indicating a shape of an object and which do not intersect and where an edge direction of the start edge and an edge direction of the end edge are aligned, whether an edge read from the intermediate data is the start edge or the end edge based on an edge direction of the edge, determines an X coordinate of an edge to be determined for each scan line as a minimum value of a corresponding scan line, and determines, an X coordinate of an edge to be determined for each scan line, as a maximum value of a corresponding scan line. | 06-13-2013 |
20130155469 | IDENTIFYING A PREVIUOSLY MARKED SHEET - A method of printing on a sheet of recording medium included in a randomly oriented stack of recording media provided to a printing apparatus, the method comprising: a) using a scanning element disposed in a printing path of the printing apparatus to scan a first side of the sheet of recording medium to provide scan data; b) analyzing the scan data to determine whether the first side has previously been marked on; and c) making a predetermined indicator on the first side of the sheet of recording medium if it is determined that the first side has previously been marked on. | 06-20-2013 |
20130222859 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - According to the invention it is possible to determine in advance whether it is possible to correctly generate a conversion table for calibration or color profile correction even with respect to an unknown print medium, and to avoid the preparation of unsuitable parameters and the performance of unsuitable image processing based thereon. In order to achieve this the color of a subject print medium is measured and from the color measurement result it is determined, based on color measurement data from a test pattern printed on the print medium, whether it is possible to obtain parameters suited to the print medium. As a result it has become possible to avoid the preparation of unsuitable parameters to be associated with the print medium, and it has become possible to output images with a comparatively stable reproduction of color even where performing printing on a variety of print mediums. | 08-29-2013 |
20130242350 | CONTROLLER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, provided is a controller that controls an image forming unit forming an image on a recording medium based on image data in which densities of a plurality of colors are specified for each pixel. The controller includes: a setting unit that sets a common representative value to a density of a specific color indicating one of the colors in each of a plurality of pixels included in a specific area indicating a specific area represented in the image data; and a determining unit that determines a density of each of the colors so that a sum of densities of the respective colors other than the specific color in the pixels included in the specific area becomes equal to or lower than a value acquired by subtracting the representative value from a reference value indicating a total amount restriction target of a total amount of toners. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250365 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A print control device includes a generating unit configured to generate image data, based on gloss control plane data for specifying a type of a surface effect to be given to a recording medium and specifying a region to which the surface effect is to be given in the recording medium; and an output unit configured to output the image data. The generating unit includes a tone correcting unit configured to perform a tone correction on a region in which the surface effect is designated in the gloss control plane data, the tone correction varying with each type of surface effect. | 09-26-2013 |
20130271795 | DETECTOR AND PRINTER USING THE SAME - A detector and a printer using the same are provided. The printer includes a body and the detector. The body has a base and a shaft located above the base. The detector includes multiple inducted modules, a carriage, an inducing unit, and a light receiving unit. The inducted modules are disposed on the base of the body aligning to an axial direction of the shaft. The carriage is disposed on the shaft. The inducing unit and the light receiving unit are disposed on the carriage. During a printing process, the carriage moves back and forth along the axial direction, and the inducing unit induces the corresponding inducted modules to emit lights. The light receiving unit receives light emitted from one of the inducted modules and penetrated a paper undergoing the printing process for detecting a paper barcode. | 10-17-2013 |
20130293929 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image forming apparatus and a control method thereof according to this invention, in a case that a received print job designates image formation on a surface of a sheet on which an image has been formed, whether image formation on the sheet based on the print job is possible is determined based on at least image information of the sheet acquired by reading the image of the sheet. If it is determined that image formation on the sheet based on the print job is impossible, the image formation on the sheet is stopped. If it is determined that the image formation on the sheet based on the print job is possible, an image is formed on the sheet in accordance with the image information of the print job. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293930 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In an image forming apparatus, an image of a document is read as document image data, and an image processing method of image data to be overwritten on the document is switched based on the read document image data. | 11-07-2013 |
20140029060 | COLOR CONVERSION DEVICE, COLOR CONVERSION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COLOR SEPARATION DEVICE - Granularity level adjustment areas, in each of which a granularity level of an image is adjusted, are extracted. Each of target values for the granularity levels in the extracted granularity level adjustment areas is set. The granularity level is calculated, and the device color signals in the granularity level adjustment areas are converted, such that the calculated granularity level is closer to the target value than before the device color signals are converted, and such that the new device color signals fall within an isochromatic range in a device-independent color space. | 01-30-2014 |
20140036317 | MANAGING CONSISTENT DATA OBJECTS - A method and system for managing consistent data objects are included herein. The method includes detecting an operation to store a consistent data object. Additionally, the method includes detecting an attribute for the consistent data object. Furthermore, the method includes storing the consistent data object based on the attribute. In addition, the method includes determining an additional format of the consistent data object is to be stored. The method also includes generating a second consistent data object based on the additional format and storing the second consistent data object. | 02-06-2014 |
20140092443 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device comprises a processor and a memory. The processor executes computer-readable instructions stored in the memory. The instructions cause the image processing device to acquire target image data including each pixel value of a plurality of pixels. The instructions cause the image processing device to extract a plurality of edge pixels from the plurality of the pixels in the target image. The instructions cause the image processing device to determine a first reference value by using the plurality of the edge pixels. The instructions cause the image processing device to generate correspondence data by using the first reference value. The instructions cause the image processing device to convert, using the correspondence data, a plurality of original pixel values of the plurality of pixels into respective converted pixel values. | 04-03-2014 |
20140104658 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a color measurement portion printing unit, a colorimeter, and an image evaluating unit. The color measurement portion printing unit prints at least one color measurement portion. The colorimeter measures a color of the color measurement portion. The image evaluating unit evaluates, on the basis of a measured color value obtained by the colorimeter and a predetermined reference value, whether or not an image printed in response to a print request satisfies quality requirements that are based on a predetermined standard. The image evaluating unit evaluates whether or not the image satisfies the quality requirements, on the basis of a measured color value of a color measurement portion whose color is the same as a color used in the image or whose color difference from the color used in the image is within a predetermined range, among plural color measurement portions. | 04-17-2014 |
20140118791 | Image Forming Apparatus That Performs Color Conversion Specific to a Particular Graphic Form - An image forming apparatus includes a specific graphic form storage section, an image determination section, and determination color conversion processing section. The specific graphic form storage section is configured to store a visual image of a specific graphic form and attribute information specific to the specific graphic form as a reference image and reference attribute information, respectively. The image determination section is configured to determine at least one of (i) whether or not an image matching with the reference image is included in target data and (ii) whether or not an image having the reference attribute information is included in the target data, and detect the image identified through the determination as an image corresponding to the specific graphic form. The color conversion processing section is configured to perform specific color conversion processing for the image corresponding to the specific graphic form. | 05-01-2014 |
20140132993 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, an image processing method for controlling it, and a storage medium. The image processing apparatus determines whether or not a line of interest is a black line, and counts, when it is determined that the line of interest is the black line, the number of consecutive black lines. It determines whether or not the line of interest is in a black area in accordance with whether or not the number of consecutive black lines counted in the counting is greater than a predetermined value, and in a case that it is determined that the line of interest is the black line and it is determined that the line of interest is not in the black area, it executes thinning processing for the line of interest. | 05-15-2014 |
20140139886 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROGRAM - At the time of printing by reuse of a backing sheet, a print can not be performed on a blank area thereof. According to an image forming apparatus in the present invention it is determined whether or not a print content is enabled to be printed on a blank area of a document read by a reading unit, and in a case where it is determined that the print content is enabled to be printed, the print content is on the blank area of the document read by the reading unit. | 05-22-2014 |
20140160534 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image processing method, an image forming apparatus and an image forming system are provided. When a printed image is read to generate data, the amount of data can effectively be reduced. A data acquisition unit acquires the print image data of each page of a reference printed copy as baseline data, and the print image data of each page of a non-reference printed copy. A differential data generating unit | 06-12-2014 |
20140185100 | PRINTING CONTROLLER AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - There are provided a region specifying unit configured to specify a region containing a barcode which is a target to be subjected to density reduction processing and is constituted by black and image data other than the barcode constituted by a color different from black in original data; a color determiner configured to determine whether or not each pixel is black in the region specified by the region specifying unit; a density reduction processor configured to apply density reduction processing to the pixel determined by the color determiner to be black; and a print data creating unit configured to create the print data on the basis of the original data subjected to the density reduction processing. | 07-03-2014 |
20140285852 | IMAGE INSPECTION SYSTEM AND IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS - When defects occur in four places of a print data region of a paper P | 09-25-2014 |
20140285853 | IMAGE INSPECTING SYSTEM AND RECORDING MATERIAL PROCESSING DEVICE - A recording material processing device, includes: an accumulation unit that is accumulated with a plurality of recording materials each of which is a recording material formed with an image by an image forming unit and inspected by an inspection unit, where the image forming unit that forms the image on the recording material based on original image data; and a processing unit that removes the recording material which was determined to have a defect which occurred in the image by the inspecting unit, among the plurality of recording materials and adds a new recording material on which a same image is formed by the image forming unit, to the plurality of recording materials, the same image being based on the original image data of the image formed on the defective recording material. | 09-25-2014 |
20140313552 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CREATING EVALUATION DATA - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section which forms an image on a sheet, a reading section which reads the image formed on the sheet by the image forming section, and a control section. The control section allows the image forming section to form a reference image for evaluation of image quality, allows the reading section to read the reference image at a resolution lower than a resolution at which the reference image is formed, obtains read values of the reference image, the resolution of which has been made higher than the resolution of the reference image read by the reading section using the read reference image, and creates evaluation data based on the obtained read values. | 10-23-2014 |
20140333970 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus that outputs, in the recording of a fine line image, an image having high fine line reproducibility by performing image processing according to a paper frequency characteristic. This image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input image data representing an image to be formed on a recording medium, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a frequency characteristic of surface unevenness of the recording medium, and a correction unit configured to correct the image data based on the frequency characteristic acquired by the acquisition unit. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333971 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROCESSING SCANNED DATA - A method includes storing raw or normalized video data in a computer accessible storage medium; analyzing portions of the video data with a first analytic engine to: determine whether the raw video data is within a first set of parameters; and generate with the first analytic engine a first set of processor settings; processing the raw or normalized video data with the first set of processor settings; and analyzing portions of the processed data with a second analytic engine to determine whether the processed data is within a second set of parameters; generating with the second analytic engine a second set of processor settings to reprocess the raw or normalized video data, sending the second set of processor settings to the first analytic engine; and reprocessing the raw or normalized video data with the first analytic engine using the second set of processor settings. | 11-13-2014 |
20140362416 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a dot data generating section configured to: compare a first threshold which is aligned with a dither mask and a corresponding gradation value which corresponds with the image data which is input; generate the dot data by determining that dots are to be formed in a case where it is determined that the corresponding gradation value exceeds the first threshold and generate the dot data by determining the forming of dots due to application of an error diffusion method by comparing correction data, where error diffusion in the image data is complete, and a second threshold in a case where it is determined that the corresponding gradation value does not exceed the first threshold as a result of the comparing; and diffuse errors, which occur as a result of generating the dot data, to pixels in a predetermined range in the vicinity in both cases. | 12-11-2014 |
20140368887 | IMAGE INSPECTION DEVICE, PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND METHOD COMPARING TARGET PRINT PAGE DATA AND DISPLAY PAGE DATA TO CREATE DIFFERENTIAL PAGE IMAGE ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION - When a differential page image is created by comparing a target inspection page image and an inspection page image, differential page image attribute information which is an inspection result is created by acquiring attribute information of an image region of the target inspection page image and an image region of the inspection page image corresponding to the differential page image, from target inspection page image data and inspection page image data. | 12-18-2014 |
20140376057 | CORRECTION METHOD OF PRINTING DATA - Disclosed is a correction method of printing image data, including correcting printing data for printing, based on color information of an adhering medium bonded to a printing medium after performing printing on the printing medium. | 12-25-2014 |
20150009540 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND MEDIUM - The image forming apparatus includes a PDL analysis unit, a DL generation unit, an edge enhancement determination unit configured to determine whether or not to perform edge enhancement processing for each image, an edge enhancement unit configured to perform edge enhancement processing, and a development processing unit configured to develop a DL into a bitmap. The DL generation unit generates a DL for image data within PDL data on which edge enhancement processing is not performed in the case where the edge enhancement determination unit determines not to perform edge enhancement processing, and generates a DL for image data within PDL data on which edge enhancement processing is performed in the case where the edge enhancement determination unit determines to perform edge enhancement processing. | 01-08-2015 |
20150015916 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system includes a printing apparatus and a printing control apparatus. The printing apparatus obtains stored first attribute information of a sheet, and sends the obtained first attribute information to the printing control apparatus. The printing control apparatus includes an information storing unit and a first and second receiving unit. The information storing unit stores first and second attribute information of sheets. The first receiving unit receives first attribute information and the second sending unit reads sheet candidates corresponding to the received first attribute information and sends the sheet candidates to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus further receives the received sheet candidates, displays the received sheet candidates, selects sheet information from the displayed sheet candidates, and sets the second attribute information of a selected sheet as attribute information of a sheet to be stored. | 01-15-2015 |
20150015917 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus ( | 01-15-2015 |
20150022863 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus executes color conversion so that when printing is performed based on image data compressed and decompressed with a lossy compression method, the image data reproduces expected colors of the image data before compression. More specifically, a range of a signal value of a black image affected by compression of image data, such as black character to be printed with black ink, is obtained, and a color separation table is generated such that color ink is not used but black ink is used within this range. This allows the image data to reproduce expected colors of the image data before compression when printing is performed based on the image data compressed and decompressed with a lossy compression method. | 01-22-2015 |
20150029558 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A control apparatus includes a display unit, a storing unit, a determining unit, and a notification unit. The display unit displays jobs. The storing unit stores attribute information of a sheet to be stored in sheet holding units. The determining unit determines, from among the jobs displayable on the display unit, a job where attribute information of a sheet to be used by the job does not correspond to the sheet attribute information stored in the storing unit. The notification unit notifies a user of the number of jobs determined by the determining unit. | 01-29-2015 |
20150103382 | CAUSE IDENTIFYING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A cause identifying device includes a modifying unit and an identifying unit. The modifying unit, in a case in which an inexpedience is detected in an image formed on a print medium by conducting multiple processes, modifies processing content conducted during the image formation by modifying a processing parameter of a partial process or disabling a partial process. The identifying unit identifies a cause of the inexpedience on the basis of information obtained from an image formed on a print medium by image formation conducted after the processing content is modified. | 04-16-2015 |
20150116781 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - Through the present invention, an image can be formed in which the ink or toner used is properly displayed, without falsification or fraudulent display, even in the case of a printed matter which includes a specific image indicating information relating to ingredients of the ink or toner. An image forming portion ( | 04-30-2015 |
20150116782 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN ATTRIBUTE MAP FOR PROCESSING AN IMAGE - A method of generating an attribute map for processing an image. An image encoded into a plurality of segments is received. Each segment is characterised by a position within a base region associated with the image and is encoded according to a corresponding encoding format. A segment from the plurality of segments is decoded into a sub-image. The sub-image is associated with a combination operation and an attribute value derived based on at least one of a segment decoding format and a segment encoding format. The combination operation determines a process of combining the sub-image with the underlying base region. An information-carrying pixel value in the sub-image is determined based on the sub-image pixel content and the attribute value associated with the sub-image. The attribute map for processing the image is generated using the attribute value associated with the sub-image for at least one pixel of the attribute map. | 04-30-2015 |
20150138605 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDING COMMERCIAL CONTENT TO PRINTOUTS - Systems, devices and methods are provided which relate to detecting a print command on a client computer, the print command reflecting an interest to print content of an electronic document, accessible by a client computer, as a hard copy printout. One method includes analyzing the electronic document content to determine its underlying subject matter, identifying commercial content relevant to the underlying subject matter, and creating and formatting a new, printable document that includes the electronic document content and the identified commercial content. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138606 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a deciding unit configured to decide an attribute of each pixel contained in a bitmap from received print commands for printing a plurality of objects, a determination unit configured to determine whether each pixel of the generated bitmap is an edge pixel or not, and a changing unit configured to change the decided attribute of each pixel based on a result of the determination of whether the pixel is an edge pixel or not. The bitmap may be generated by drawing the plurality of objects. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138607 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus calculates a number of times of color conversion performed for an object included in an original document data as a first number of color conversions as the; generates tag bits including attribute information for each pixel of raster data and calculates a number of pixels that are included in the raster data and that have an object attribute indicated by the tag bits as a second number of color conversions; compares, when generating new raster data with color adjustment performed for the original document data, the first number of color conversions with the second number of color conversions; performs color conversion either for the original document data when the first number of color conversions is smaller than the second number, or for the generated new raster data when the second number of color conversions is smaller than the first number. | 05-21-2015 |
20150310317 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a print processing portion, a first determination portion, a first determination target excluding portion, and a print color mode switching portion. The first determination portion determines, for each page of the document sheets, whether or not each of a plurality of divided areas is of a color type that is different from the print color mode. The first determination target excluding portion excludes divided areas that are determined as being of a color type that is different from the print color mode in a first set number or more of pages of the document sheets, from determination targets of the first determination portion from then. The print color mode switching portion is able to switch the print color mode during the print process when the number of divided areas that are the determination targets of the first determination portion becomes a predetermined number or smaller. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312443 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A reproduction color storing section stores pieces of color information in association with a color range that is stored in a color range storing section and includes a fluorescent color targeted for detention. Each piece of color information specifies a reproduction color candidate usable for reproducing the fluorescent color. The pixel extracting section extracts, from image data, a pixel having the fluorescent color based on the color range. A display control section reads, from the reproduction color storing section, the pieces of color information corresponding to the fluorescent color of the extracted pixel and displays the reproduction color candidates specified by the pieces of color information on a display section. The reproduction color receiving section receives a reproduction color selected by a user from the displayed reproduction color candidates. The fluorescent color reproducing section replaces color information of the extracted pixel with color information specifying the received reproduction color. | 10-29-2015 |
20150339551 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a reception unit that receives designation of a foreground portion included in a foreground region of an image displayed on a display screen, and a region forming unit that forms a foreground candidate region including the foreground portion, wherein the reception unit receives designation of an addition to the image after the foreground candidate region is formed, and the region forming unit sets whether the designation of the addition is used to designate the foreground region or a background region of the image excluding the foreground region according to whether the designation of the addition is present outside or inside the foreground candidate region, and re-forms the foreground candidate region according to the foreground portion and the designation of the addition. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339553 | AUTOMATIC PRINT JOB TICKET SETTINGS BASED ON RASTER IMAGES OF PREVIOUSLY PRINTED DOCUMENT - Exemplary methods and devices herein receive the images of a previously printed document (through scanning, raster image processing, etc.), a second document to be printed, and instructions to use print settings of the previously printed document to print the second document. These methods and devices automatically detect page boundaries, detect page orientation, and detect page sequencing within the images of the previously printed document to identify previous layout parameters used to print the previously printed document. With this, these methods and devices automatically prepare a print job ticket for the second document that has job ticket layout parameters that match the previous layout parameters. After this, these methods and devices output (e.g., print or transmit for additional revisions/processing) the second document using the newly created print job ticket to cause the second document to match the previous layout parameters of the previously printed document. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341525 | FACSIMILE APPARATUS AND FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A facsimile apparatus includes a data acquisition section, a facsimile transmission candidate image storage section, a destination receiving section, a facsimile communication section, a print setting information management section, and a facsimile transmission image generating section. The facsimile communication section is configured to transmit and receive, to and from a destination facsimile apparatus, information necessary for facsimile communication including a facsimile transmission candidate image and print setting information. The print setting information management section is configured to store the print setting information received from the destination by the facsimile communication section. The facsimile transmission image generating section is configured to manipulate the facsimile transmission candidate image to meet the printing condition indicated by the print setting information on the destination stored in the print setting information management section, thus generating a facsimile transmission image subject to a facsimile transmission to the destination. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347880 | CALCULATION OF TRAPPING PARAMETERS - This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for implementing a trapping operation on a digital image during image processing and prorating the size of trap color filter with respect to local irregularity in shape of any target object. Some examples of the present disclosure calculate a plurality of prorated trapping parameters to be applied to portions of an object in a printing process, the calculation being based on repeated generation and application of a 2D Gaussian mask to a binarized object to identify disappeared portions of the object. The calculated plurality of prorated trapping parameters may be applied to the object during the printing process. | 12-03-2015 |
20150371125 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming method using plural types of developers includes: step for performing a designation relating to a change of a type of developer to be used; step for inputting first image data including a first image of a first color that is different from the type of developer designated by the change of the type; step for receiving second image data including a second image of the first color that is designated; step of changing at least the first color of the first image data to a developer designated by the change of the type; and step for printing the first image data of which the first color is changed and the second image data expressing the first color without changing the first color on a same medium. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373228 | SIGNAL CONVERSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND PRINT SYSTEM - Provided are a signal conversion method and apparatus, a recording medium storing non-transitory program, and a print system which can prevent a color reproduction gamut from being excessively narrowed while avoiding a print failure caused by excess color material. A signal conversion method for limiting the total amount of color materials used in a printing device that forms an image on a recording medium using a plurality of color materials includes determining a final output vector after the total amount of color materials used is limited for an input vector, on the basis of a plurality of input/output signal conversion processes based on different limit values of the total amount of color materials used and weight definition information in which weights applied to the conversion results of the plurality of input/output signal conversion processes are determined according to the input vector. | 12-24-2015 |
20160014296 | Electronic Document Generation System, Electronic Document Generation Apparatus, and Recording Medium | 01-14-2016 |
20160019446 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the case where an original document is edited, tints may be different at the time of printing because the attributes of drawings are different although they resemble each other. A specifying unit configured to specify contents of editing for an original document and a determination unit configured to determine a form of representation of the specified contents of editing so as to conform with the form of representation of an object in the original document are provided. | 01-21-2016 |
20160042258 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - One or more image processing apparatuses, one or more image processing methods and one or more storage mediums are provided herein. In at least one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire one or more objects, a check unit configured to perform check processing for checking whether to combine an object with another object, for each of a plurality of objects acquired by the acquisition unit, and a determining unit configured to determine, based on a result of the check processing for each of the plurality of objects, whether to perform the check processing for checking whether to combine an object with another object, for an object acquired subsequently to the plurality of objects by the acquisition unit. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044184 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMATION CONTROL METHOD - Illustration image data drawn correspondingly to reading of an adjustment chart are memorized in a memory section, an adjustment chart is formed in a image mode in an image forming section, adjustment image data produced by reading the adjustment chart in an image reading section are analyzed, illustration image data corresponding to an analysis result of the adjustment image data are selected at the time of adjusting the image forming section based on the analysis result, and display data of the illustration image data are produced. | 02-11-2016 |
20160070997 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETECTING DECOLORATION INK IMAGE - According to an embodiment, a detection apparatus for detecting a decoloration ink image includes an image reading unit, a decoloration unit, and a controller. The controller acquires image data using the image reading unit before decoloration that is the image data on the sheet before decoloration processing is executed by the decoloration unit. In addition, the controller determines whether or not there is a difference between the image data to be decolored and the decolored image data, thereby determining whether or not the decoloration ink is used in the sheet. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078329 | VIRTUAL INK CHANNELS - Virtual ink channels are created with colored media and white ink to afford multi-channel ICC profile creation by using ICC profiling software. The available color gamut is enhanced for an device that defines a color space with a color profiler, e.g. an ICC profiler. Thus, an available color gamut for an input or output device is enhanced or extended by creating virtual ink channels for use with profiling software. This allows the use of media types and/or inks that are otherwise not supported by the profiling software. | 03-17-2016 |
20160088193 | OUTPUT PROCESSING SYSTEM, OUTPUT PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An output processing system includes a source device and a destination device. The source device transfers output information created in anticipation of a target output device in an output color space whose components are colors of color material, together with target device property information indicating characteristics of the target output device. The destination device receives the output information and the target device property information transferred from the source device, creates color conversion information from the target device property information and actual device property information indicating characteristics of the destination device itself, and conducts color conversion of the output information. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088195 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image data processing apparatus includes a white-colorant-amount specifying unit that specifies an amount of a white colorant used by an image forming apparatus to form an image having a unit area, the image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording medium by using the white colorant and at least one process-color colorant; and a process-color-colorant-total-amount adjusting unit that adjusts a total amount of the at least one process-color colorant used by the image forming apparatus to form the image having a unit area. The process-color-colorant-total-amount-adjusting unit adjusts the total amount of the at least one process-color colorant so that a sum of the amount of the white colorant and the total amount of the at least one process-color colorant used to form the image having a unit area is constant. | 03-24-2016 |
20160132756 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit printing, on a printed matter on which a first color patch for color adjustment is printed, an image based on digital print data including a second color patch, and a measurement unit measuring the first and second color patches. An information processing apparatus adjusts color information for printing the image, based on a result of measurement of the first and second color patches measured by the measurement unit, and instructs the image forming apparatus to print the image based on the adjusted color information. | 05-12-2016 |
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