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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181951 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus allowing a printing section inside of a casing to print paper and discharging the printed paper from the casing through a discharge port of the casing includes a discharge tray configured such that the position thereof is switchable from a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7907187 | Image data process apparatus selecting image data in a directory judged not compliant with the DCF standard and computer readable medium encoded with image data process program to select such image data An image data process apparatus includes a judgment unit and a selection unit. The judgment unit is configured to judge whether or not a directory in which image data is stored is compliant with a DCF standard. The selection unit is configured to select the image da... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7809612 | Image receiving apparatus An image receiving apparatus includes: an image acquisition part for acquiring image data; a display control part 21 for displaying the acquired image data on a monitor screen; an image correction select part 23 for selecting image correction to be mad... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7785436 | Laminating method for forming a laminate layer on a recording surface of a recording medium A laminating apparatus and a laminating method for finely finishing laminate processing without performing edge processing after the laminate processing is performed to a recording medium. A laminate material having a size larger than that of the recording medium is... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7766476 | Recording paper magazine and ink-jet printer having the same A photographic printing device includes an ink-jet printer with recording paper magazine. The recording paper magazine includes a housing and a humectant. The housing is configured to receive a recording paper. The humectant is provided in order to moisturize the in... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7760388 | Automatic print frame setting apparatus The present invention relates to an automatic print frame setting apparatus, comprising: image displaying means 3 for displaying, on a monitor screen, image data used for producing photo prints; size setting... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7720599 | Tourist information guiding apparatus A tourist information guiding apparatus is provided with a tourist spot information storage storing image data relating to tourist spots in correspondence with character string data for sightseeing guide written in a plurality of languages, a monitor for displaying ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7702539 | Picture order receiving apparatus and a picture processing system A picture order receiving apparatus is provided with a monitor constructed by a touch panel unit for displaying order screens including operation descriptive texts describing methods for inputting a print order or the like and displaying operation keys used to input... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697784 | Method for reducing noise in images There is provided a method of reducing block noise, mosquito noise and other image noises in an image by a filtering process using a smoothing filter, which block noise, mosquito noise and other image noises being caused at the time of decoding encoded, compressed i... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7692830 | Luminance nonuniformity adjustment method and luminance nonuniformity adjustment module using this method A luminance nonuniformity adjustment module for eliminating luminance nonuniformities in light emitting elements determines a luminance correction coefficient for each light-emitting element through a test print. The luminance nonuniformity adjustment module compris... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7682482 | Plasma generation apparatus and work processing apparatus A plasma generation apparatus is provided which includes: an apparatus main body which has a microwave generation section which generates a microwave and a plasma generation nozzle which generates and emits a plasma gas based on the energy of the microwave; a microw... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7657090 | Region detecting method and region detecting apparatus To provide a region detecting method capable of setting a proper threshold independently of a photographing condition and moreover, quickly and accurately detecting a specific region, which uses an image data storing section 10 for storing a sample image 1... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7650048 | Image processor and image processing method An image processor includes an image processing section, an enlargement processing section, and a controller. When image data including a second predetermined number of pixels to be output from an image output section, is generated on the basis of image data includi... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7624979 | Sheet transport apparatus A sheet transport apparatus includes a pair of transporting rollers, a table and a table drive mechanism. The pair of transporting rollers consist of a driving roller and a driven roller. On the table are stacked a plurality of recording media to be supplied to the ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7616808 | Photograph image-processing method and device thereof A photograph image-processing method comprises the steps of entering a film image for reading a film image by an image pickup device and generating color image data, generating concentration histograms for each of RGB color components from the color image data, rela... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613339 | Method and an apparatus for detecting the base concentration of a photographic film A method of detecting the base concentration of a film comprises the steps of generating a concentration histogram from the film image in each of the RGB color components, shifting and stretching the histograms in the other colors towards the histogram in the refere... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7593568 | Method of detecting the base concentration of a photographic film A method of detecting the base concentration of a film is provided including: a film image entering process of reading a developed film with an image pickup device to generate the pixel values in each of the RGB color components; a non-exposure region detecting step... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7580844 | Image data storing service system In the present invention, a customer operates a customer-use terminal device 1 so that image information stored in a data career brought by the customer is read out by a media drive 2 or a scanner 4, and then a clerk receives payment for the ser... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7542168 | Gradation conversion calibration by comparing grayscale and color chart measurements to target values and repeated correction amount calculations to tolerance values A color chart and a grayscale chart are output, and a calibration task of calculating a correction amount based on the grayscale chart by comparing a measured density value that is obtained by measuring a density of the grayscale chart and a target density value tha... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7536317 | System for receiving order for output of image data In the order receiving system of the invention, a read/record controller reads image data from a memory card, produces uniquely recognizable ID information and stores the image data in a memory in association with the ID information. An order form issue section issu... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7520603 | Inkjet printer In an inkjet printer including first to n-th paper storages, such as a magazine type storage or a cassette type storage, and associated first to n-th upstream transport lines (where n is a natural number larger than 1), a paper carrier (switchback unit) is provided ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7463784 | Image processing method and apparatus for image sharpening An image processing apparatus for sharpening photographic image data obtained through digitization of a photographic image by using a sharpening filter capable of sharpening intensity adjustment. The apparatus includes a parameter determining section for extracting ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7457480 | Bright line plot processing method and computer program product for bright line plot processing A method of plotting a bright line which starts from the pixel at a bright point in an image where a more natural mode of a cross filter effect can be applied to any digital photographic image. The bright line plot processing method includes steps of generating an i... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7450144 | Image forming apparatus A photo-printing system includes a laser exposure unit, a reference clock generation unit, an image input unit, and a controller. The image input unit receives first pixel data and second pixel data to be expressed after the first pixel in accordance with image data... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7428512 | Information distribution system, information distribution device, information receiving device, information distribution method, information distribution program, recording medium recording the information distribution program, information receiving method, information receiving program, and recording medium recording the information receiving program In the case of modifying available copy count information which is contained in distribution data, the distribution data being distributed from a distribution server and stored in a PC which serves as a receiving device, the PC sends a reuse request to the distribut... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7415163 | Method of reducing noise in images An image noise reducing method that can properly reduce both block noise and mosquito noise without deterioration of the image quality is provided. The method includes creating a first luminance component image data with the boundaries of the blocks thereof smoothen... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409103 | Method of reducing noise in images An image noise reducing method that can properly reduce CCD noise which emerges in an image imported from a digital camera is provided. The method includes applying a first filtering step to luminance component image data of the image with each pixel of the luminanc... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7382502 | Image processing method and apparatus for recovering reading faults An image processing apparatus for recovering reading faults produced in time of scanning photographic film due to imperfections present on the film such as scratches, dust or stains. The apparatus comprises a defective pixel detecting unit (11) for detecting ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372537 | Print processing apparatus capable of calibration printing A photographic printing apparatus includes a transporting section for cutting photosensitive material drawn from one of a plurality of magazines each accommodating therein an elongated photosensitive material into a print size piece by a cutter unit and then feeding... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362345 | Printer and printing method A printer includes a conveyance mechanism capable of conveying a long recording medium in a first direction from a supply unit storing therein the recording medium, toward an image recording unit capable of recording a color image on the recording medium, and in a s... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359566 | Bright point detecting method and computer program product for conducting the bright point detecting method A bright point detecting method is provided comprising selecting a cluster of pixels in the image to be processed which are higher in the luminance than a predetermined threshold; counting the number of the pixels of each group along two or more directions and selec... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355618 | Image exposure apparatus An image exposure apparatus of a different angle incident type is provided having a single optical sensor unit for determining the timing for start point synchronization along the main scanning direction, an output level detecting device determining the output level... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356167 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for correcting image data One target pixel is selected from a plurality of defective pixels. By adjusting a searching interval based on the number of pixels included in image data to be processed, one or more normal pixels are searched and detected on each of opposed sides across the target ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7327877 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing method correcting a defective portion in color image data having a plurality of color components. The method includes the steps of adjusting luminance of each defective pixel; selecting a plurality of normal pixels from around a target pixel whic... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327489 | Image processing device and computer program product therefor Image data files are stored in correspondence with specified print size and quantity in an image data memory of an image processing device, and properly corrected by an image corrector. Two pieces of information about the print size, one inputted by an operator and ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324242 | Photographic processing system A photographic processing system comprises: a printing unit 3 for forming photographic prints based on image data read out from a negative film; a CD-R writing device 2 for writing the image data in a CD-R; a sorter 14 having numerous trays 1... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315317 | Printer A printer includes a conveyance mechanism capable of conveying a long recording medium in a first direction from a supply unit storing therein the recording medium, toward an image recording unit capable of recording a color image on the recording medium, and in a s... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315316 | Printer A printer includes a conveyance mechanism capable of conveying a long recording medium in a first direction from a supply unit storing therein the recording medium, toward an image recording unit capable of recording a color image on the recording medium, and in a s... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7298380 | Image processing method and apparatus for white eye correction A technique for correcting white eye in image data is disclosed. In this technique, a white eye candidate pixel is detected from an eye extracted from the image data based on a predetermined detection condition. The white eye candidate pixel as a white eye pixel bas... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7272257 | Method for determining whether photographic image is different-color-structure photographic image and photographic image processing apparatus This invention includes a different-type-light-source image determination unit for determining whether the target film image is a different-type-light-source photographic image based on RGB component data on each of pixels that constitute data on the target film ima... | 09/18/2007 |
