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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127496 | Terminal device having correction function for natural color and method thereof A terminal device having a correction function for natural color and a method thereof are provided for creating an image closest in color to the natural color. A priority storing unit stores at a reference color data area a range of natural colors which are colors of ob... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127492 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF This invention can generate printed matter on which a multi-valued discrimination image of three values or more cannot be visually confirmed under ordinary light but can be visually confirmed via an infrared camera under infrared light. To this end, a holding unit holds... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127493 | INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD For a selected pixel value, amounts of color material used of respective color materials used to print a background region, and those of respective color materials used to print a latent image region are calculated. The calculated amounts of color material used are stor... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127495 | PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROLLER OF PRINT SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Confidentiality of a job that requires authentication processing prior to printing is maintained as much as possible. A method for controlling a printing system is provided that is capable of receiving a plurality of types of print jobs including a first type print job ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127491 | HIGH DENSITY INK-JET PRINTING ON A TRANSPARENCY IN A CIELAB COLORSPACE A method of printing a high density image on a transparent medium. In some examples, the method includes calculating an expected optical density for an input pixel value, using a first function configured to output an optical density which produces a substantially linea... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127494 | IMAGE TONE CONVERSION APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM An image tone conversion apparatus includes: a region specifying section configured to specify a region of an original image, to which region an image tone conversion is to be performed; an image tone specifying section configured to specify a different type of image to... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127497 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DISPLAYING PRINTS OF RECONSTRUCTED 3D IMAGES A method of providing a composite image for lenticular printing. The method comprises providing a plurality of reconstructed volume images, providing an indication of a reference zone in at least one of the plurality of reconstructed volume images, forming a composite i... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105882 | PRINT COLOR PREDICTING APPARATUS, PRINT COLOR PREDICTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A print color predicting apparatus, a print color predicting method, and a recording medium having a program recorded therein acquire a spectral reflectance of a print, estimate a plurality of sets of optical property values of a protective film that covers the print, d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105874 | IMAGING PRODUCT LAYOUT SYSTEM An imaging kiosk comprises an image printer, a frame-specification reader for reading frame-specification information specifying two or more image openings in a picture frame, an image-acquisition device, and a computer system for controlling the image printer, the fram... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105879 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM The present invention prevents a printing result desired by a user from being unable to be printed out, due to registration of the same color name for sheets of different colors. To accomplish this, an image forming apparatus includes a reading unit that reads in a shee... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105875 | IMAGING PRODUCT LAYOUT METHOD A computer implemented method for making a single rendered printable image corresponding to a picture frame. Two or more digital images are arranged on a print sheet according to machine decodable frame-specification information that specifies where two or more image op... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105876 | COLOR PLANE REGISTRATION ERROR CORRECTION A printing method and system include printing a first image on a first portion of a first page and determining a color plane registration (CPR) error using a second portion of the first page. A second image is modified based on the CPR error, and the second image is pri... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105880 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an image data acquisition unit, a frequency distribution acquisition unit, and a color setting unit. The image data acquisition unit acquires image data representing a color image. The frequency distribution acquisition unit allocates... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105881 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING IMAGE CONTROL ACCORDING TO TARGET VALUE An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section configured to form a toner image on an image bearing member; and a first control section configured to change an image target value of the image forming section.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105877 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An image forming apparatus includes a determination unit and a restriction unit. The determination unit determines an image forming capability of each of the image forming apparatus and a different image forming apparatus, an image being formed on a printing medium that... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105878 | ACCURATE PRINTING OF A TARGET COLOUR A method of accurately printing a target colour is provided. The method comprises: in a first step measuring the light spectrum (106) of a first printed colour sample (104), which has been printed with a first ink coverage; and from the measured light spec... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081725 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PRINT ORDER RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND PRINT ORDER RECEIVING METHOD An image processing apparatus includes a receiver which receives original image data from a terminal, a converter which converts the original image data to tone-changed image, a storing unit which stores parameter groups for converting the original image data, the param... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081722 | COLOR VALUE ACQUIRING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COLOR VALUE ACQUIRING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM The shape of a target mark extracted from within a print sample and to be reproduced on a print is entered. A color chart is printed comprising multiple color patches in which the shape of the target mark is simulated.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081719 | TESTING PRINTER CALIBRATION The systems and methods presented herein provide for the testing of calibration processing within a print controller. In one embodiment, a method provides for testing a printer calibration module. The method includes simulating an optical density response of the printer... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081723 | COLOR REPRODUCTION PREDICTING APPARATUS, COLOR REPRODUCTION PREDICTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A cell interior point group of a first lattice is determined by determining at least one interior point for each of cells defined based on the first lattice points. Colorimetric values for device values of second lattice points are predicted based on device values and c... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081720 | PRINT SHOP MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZING COLOR OR BLACK AND WHITE PRINTING A method implemented in a print shop management system that includes a data processing apparatus having a non-transitory memory for storing a computer software program and a processor for executing the software program, wherein the program includes a program code config... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081449 | INKJET PRINTER, IMAGE PROCESSOR, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD In the present invention, a first calculation unit calculates, based on image data obtained by reading with a reading unit a plurality of patches formed on a printing medium by a plurality of nozzle regions constituting nozzle array of a printing head, respective color ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081721 | MULTI-FUNCTION PRINTER AND METHOD OF GENERATING PRINT DATA In a multi-function printer, a scanning module reads an image of an original and generates corresponding color image data. A color converter converts a set of red (R), green (G) and blue (B) values of a pixel of the color image data into a set of cyan (C), magenta (M) a... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081718 | ALIGNMENT COMPENSATION BY PRINTER DRIVER A method of compensating for misalignment of a print engine of an image forming apparatus, which includes: (a) forwarding a request from a host computer having a printer driver to an image forming apparatus for reference data of a printable area of the print engine; (b)... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081724 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes: an internal storage device; an attachment portion to which an external storage device can be attached; an image reading unit that reads contents of an original as an image and converts the image into an electronic signal; a first ima... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069364 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING PLURALITY OF SCREENS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus includes a display unit and a control unit. The control unit displays, on the display unit, a first window for inputting a setting concerned with a plurality of functions. Further, the control unit stepwisely displays at least a portion of ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069363 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE A printing device includes at least one station and a transmission control unit. The station includes a printing unit that prints image data of a plurality of colors generated by an upper level device on a printing medium, and a plurality of holding units that receive a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069358 | Image forming apparatus, imgae forming method, and program An image forming apparatus including an attribute-value-information holding unit that holds an attribute-value table showing correspondence between a type of gradation processing and a fixing-temperature control attribute value; an image-formation-attribute processing u... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069357 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING THE DENSITY OF BLACK A computer-implemented method and system for enhancing black density of a halftoned bitmap are provided. The method includes receiving a halftoned bitmap into computer memory, and, using a computer, identifying at least one black-only pixel in the halftoned bitmap. The ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069359 | Image forming apparatus, color-misregistration correcting method, and computer program product An image forming apparatus includes recording heads for ejecting recording liquids of colors onto a recording medium. The apparatus includes a reference-patch forming unit that records a reference patch, the reference patch being formed by overlaying dot array patterns ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069360 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, A CONTROL METHOD AND A RECORDING MEDIUM The image forming apparatus includes an image forming part configured to form an image on a sheet; a post-processing part configured to process a sheet bundle, the sheet bundle including sheets on which images are formed by the image forming part; an image quality maint... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069361 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF TONER CONSUMPTION An apparatus to detect toner consumption converts an original file into a spool file to perform preview before printing, converts the spool file into preview data, classifies objects based on types of items recorded in the spool file to create an object map, and calcula... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069362 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE A printing device includes a printing unit that prints printing image data of a plurality of colors on a printing medium, a plurality of data storage units that receive and store the image data. The image data is transferred from the upper level device through a plurali... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050757 | Color Substitution Mechanism A computer generated method disclosed. The method includes examining a print job file to retrieve a source color to be mapped from a source color space to a device color space, receiving a starting color, generating a set of color patches based on the starting color and... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050756 | Color Substitution Mechanism A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to perform color conversion during rasterization of a print job object at a printer, determining if a substitution mapping file is available for an output color space to be generated by the color conversion,... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050755 | PRINTER CALIBRATION FOR PRINTERS WITH FIXED PRINT ARRAY STRUCTURES The systems and methods presented herein provide for calibrating a print engine of a printing system. The printing system prints image data on a print medium and scans the printed image data. Color values of the scanned image data are then measured and various tints of ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050758 | COLOR PLANE REGISTRATION ERROR MEASUREMENT A color plane registration error method and system include printing a plurality of predetermined patterns of dots, each predetermined pattern having the respective dots arranged symmetrically around a common center of gravity. The center of gravity of each of the printe... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050762 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD The present invention suppresses a bronzing phenomenon that occurs easily in inkjet printing that uses pigment ink, and minimizes other effects on the image quality by particularly minimizing the change in gray balance. Of at least first and second achromatic inks havin... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050753 | DUPLICATION PREVENTION METHOD AND SYSTEM An invisible ink management method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor data associated with an image to be duplicated and a duplication command enabling reproduction of the image. The computer processor receives a command for enabling a dup... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050771 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE DENSITY MEASURING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DENSITY MEASURING METHOD An image forming apparatus includes a control section extracting a color composition of each color ranging from a first to an nth color from input image data, on the color composition of an mth color, the m being 1 to n−1, performing a first and ... | 03/01/2012 |
