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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090109509 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD The present invention provides an image processor and an image processing method which can minimize variation of color tone or density in an image after screen processing, even if semi-transparency has been specified. The image processor of the present invention generat... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20070121167 | System and method for halftoning using a time-variable halftone pattern Successive frames or images of an input image that are presented to the output device are individually halftoned. A starting location within the input image for tiling one of one or more halftone techniques over the frame or image is determined. The starting location is... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20050259278 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus, including: an averaging processing section to periodically carry out an averaging processing on image data of an averaging target, the averaging processing calculating an average value of pixel values of pixels which correspond to a positi... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050243374 | Image processing method and image processing unit The present invention provides an image processing method and an image processing apparatus. The method and the apparatus perform image processing based on image data and drawing commands input from an image processing terminal. The method includes: setting drawing of a... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050243344 | Method and apparatus for multi-color printing using hybrid dot-line halftone composite screens A method and apparatus for generating a multicolor image using halftone screens employs a dot structure dot growth pattern for one or more of the colors and a line structure dot growth pattern for at least two or more of the other colors. ... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050243340 | Method and apparatus for multi-color printing using a rosette or diamond halftone screen for one or more of the colors A method and apparatus for processing image data representing a color separation or mono-color image includes processing the color separation image data or mono-color image data in accordance with first and second or more halftone screen processings at different screen ... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050213123 | Image forming apparatus and storage medium The present 6invention provides an image forming apparatus and a storage medium which are capable of responding individually to each user by eliminating the waste incurred when the storage medium such as a ROM storing a program is recreated, and capable of enhancing use... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050206930 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer product An image forming apparatus has a color converter, a BG/UCR processor, a Bk/Lk generator, and a halftone processor. The cyan, the black, and the magenta are halftone screens having substantially equal frequencies and angle differences therebetween each set at approximate... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050157347 | Relief plates, platemaking masters therefor, and methods for producing such plate making masters and plates A relief plate, e.g., flexographic plate for printing an image, a platemaking master for producing a relief plate, and a method for producing a platemaking master. The image includes an area to be printed solid. The plate includes in the area to be printed solid a set o... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050134873 | Post screening handling of multibit raster operations Upon rendering a raster operation when processing page data in page description language, logical operations in raster operations (ROPS) are replaced with arithmetic operations. All raster operations can be expressed as one or more logical operations between the source,... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050099640 | Page data editor, component image display method in page data editor and program A page data editor capable of listing types of dot patterns assigned to component images arranged on a page respectively, collectively displaying component images to which a specific dot pattern is assigned and readily changing the dot pattern of a selected component im... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050083541 | Methods and systems for estimating single or multi-color toner coverage on a printer page Methods and systems for estimating single or multi-colored toner coverage on a printed page. One method includes generating color plane bitmaps corresponding to each color in a contone bitmap and calculating pixel coverage values for each of the color plane contone bitm... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050068585 | Image conversion apparatus and image conversion program storage medium The present invention provides an image conversion apparatus that converts an input image having process color components and a spot color component and represented by density data for the respective colors into a halftone dot image represented by halftone dot data. A f... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050012945 | Macro-pixel image rendering apparatus and associated methods A macro-pixel used in an image rendering process for forming an image using a matrix of macro-pixels. The macro-pixel comprises a plurality of rectilinear parallel rows. All rows extend across the matrix in the same direction and each one of the rows is capable of at le... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050007301 | Display panel A display panel includes a first halftone dot layer and a second halftone dot layer. The first and the second layers are formed with halftone dots printed at regular intervals in gradation patterns so that brightness gradually changes. The first and the second layers ar... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050002048 | Method and apparatus for forming color image A color image forming apparatus that forms a multitone image from image data includes a converter that converts multitone image data of respective colors into binary or multinary quantized image data, a screen forming unit that forms at least three screens representing ... | 01/06/2005 |
