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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189233 | Density calculating apparatus, density setting apparatus, density calculating program storage medium, and density setting program storage medium A density calculating apparatus includes: an image data acquisition section that acquires print image data representing a print image; a place designating section that designates a place on the print image; and a target color acquisition section that acquires a targ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189232 | Density calculating apparatus, density setting apparatus, density calculating program storage medium, and density setting program storage medium A density calculating apparatus includes: an image data acquisition section that acquires print image data representing a print image; a place designating section that designates a place on the print image; and a target color acquisition section that acquires a targ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189231 | Automated mechanical approval of advertisement copy Methods, systems, and apparatus for evaluating an advertisement. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an electronic file comprising an advertisement; receiving one or more ad space parameters associated with a publication; comparing one or more attributes of t... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184337 | Image processing apparatus and method to output a print image embedded with information indicating a region obtained by merging a region on an input image corresponding to a specified image region, and a surrounding region of that region on the input image An output image forming unit generates a print image based on an input image. A partial region image forming unit specifies an image region, which is not to be printed when the print image is printed on a print sheet, and generates region information indicating a re... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184338 | Image forming apparatus and method for controlling printing and auto color registration A method for controlling printing of an image forming apparatus includes receiving a printing command from a user, determining whether a condition for auto color registration is satisfied, asking the user whether to perform auto color registration if the condition f... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184335 | Method for ad-hoc parallel processing in a distributed environment An overall processing time to rasterize, at the first device, the electronic document to be rendered is computed. Also, a rendering time to render, at the first device, the electronic document to be rendered is computed. When the overall processing time to rasterize... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184339 | Data generation and printing with binarization pattern selected as function of pixel number corresponding to conveying amount of print medium When a feeding amount for multi-pass printing is changed, the purpose related to an image quality using a binary data generation pattern can still be attained by, for example, a density pattern method. Specifically, a multi-pass printing mode is identified, and a de... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184334 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for the same An image processing apparatus for using one of a device link profile and a set of a source profile and an output profile includes a first selection unit for selecting a set of a source profile and an output profile and second selection unit for selecting a device li... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184336 | Image processing device, image processing method, and computer-readable record medium for image processing An image processing device comprises an image processing unit capable of executing multiple types of image processing (differing in the amount of pixel loss caused to an image edge) to an image as a processing target, a specifying unit which specifies image processi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179566 | Method for classifying a printer gamut into subgamuts for improved spot color accuracy A method is provided for classifying a color printer gamut into a plurality of gamut subclasses including representing the color printer gamut as a composite of gamut classes wherein each gamut class is comprised of a subset of printer color separations; and, assign... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179568 | Minimizing dot graininess in dot-on-dot printing devices What is disclosed is a novel system and method for minimizing dot visibility in color marking devices capable of dot-on-dot printing. The present method achieves minimum dot visibility for a given dispersed-dot screen by performing a CMYK to CMYKRGB conversion which... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179567 | Color conversion apparatus and color conversion method An object of the present invention is to display a color by sufficiently utilizing a color space capable of being displayed by a display. In order to attain the above described object, a color conversion apparatus according to the present invention includes unit tha... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179565 | Document color and shades of gray optimization using outlining Methods, apparatus, software, and systems of the present invention allow for optimization of color and shades of gray documents prior to their conversion to a monochrome format. If color/gray elements are identified in the document, the distance between them and the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179569 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes image forming sections that forms images of different colors, respectively, a correction image formation controlling section that forms correction images of the respective colors, a density sensor that detects a density of each of... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174727 | Image forming apparatus that displays finished graphical image indicating multiple draft images arranged in matrix form A first display area and a second display area are disposed in each setting screen concerning setting of photocopy processing, a draft graphical image and a finished graphical image are set in which present set contents are reflected every time the set contents are ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174728 | Image processing method and device An image processing method for forming a color conversion table to convert plural input colors into output colors, the method including the steps of: extracting color values of plural gray scales wherein in input and output characteristic data, a signal value of one... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174729 | Printing apparatus, printing system, and printing method A printing apparatus having a print unit and a print controller with a first density correcting component performing a density correction to image data transmitted to the unit is provided. The correction accords with a printing capacity of the unit. The apparatus co... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169660 | System and method for multiple printer calibration using embedded image calibration data Disclosed is a system and method for calibrating multiple printers, and particularly color printers, in a networked environment using data embedded in select color patches in target sheets generated by each printer, which embedded data allows automated processing of... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169659 | Systems and methods for reducing a trade-off between image quality and marking speed To reduce the trade-off between image quality and marking speed, high-resolution data for an image is evaluated, and an output value is created based on the evaluation of the high-resolution data. The output value has a larger output spacing than the high-resolution... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169661 | Method and system for scanning papers and documents presenting printed information in black & white and in colored formats The present invention is a scanning method and system in which the colored information as well as the black & white information appearing on the individual page or upon multiple pages of a document are initially scanned in a full color, 24-bit per pixel, mode; after... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164790 | Methods of reducing grain and texture in a printed image Methods of improving image quality by reducing grain and texture in a printed image are provided. According to one embodiment, a method of reducing grain and texture in an image includes the steps of providing a light color toner and a dark color toner, providing an... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164787 | Thermal transfer recording device and image formation method A control section 11 of an image data generation apparatus 1 of a thermal transfer recording apparatus S performs resolution conversion processing, gradation conversion processing, CMYK separation processing, contour expansion processing, image sift pr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164791 | Image recording apparatus and method An image recording apparatus includes: a recording head having plural recording elements; a characteristics information acquisition device; a correction calculation device which corrects image data using recording point positional deviation information within acquir... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164792 | Printing device, printing method, and program A printing device includes a controlling section that converts visible information, expressed using biaxial orthogonal coordinate data, into polar coordinate data, and binarizes the polar coordinate data to generate binarized polar coordinate data. Next, the control... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164788 | Cluster-based printer model for tone reproduction curve estimation What is disclosed is a system and method for efficiently and accurately estimating the complete TRC for a color marking device equipped with a multi-center cluster halftone screen which has a similar halftone tiling geometry and a similar growth specified by a corre... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164793 | Image processing apparatus and method In a multipass printing that performs a plurality of printing scans over a unit area of a print medium by using a leading head and a follower head, the multivalued image data for the leading head is distributed according to the print volume information for up to the... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164786 | Print data generating apparatus and computer usable medium therefor, and image processing apparatus and computer usable medium therefor A print data generating apparatus to generate print data used for printing in a printing apparatus based on image data representing an image to be printed on a recording medium is provided. The print data generating apparatus comprises a data inputting system, by wh... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164789 | Image processing apparatus, image processing process and program In an image processing method, on the basis of input image data with respect to a target pixel, independent multi-level data (g0, g1) corresponding to respective plural species of dots which are different in at least one of a density and a diameter are... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159715 | Method, apparatus and systems to retrieve GCRS from historical database This disclosure provides methods, apparatus and systems for generating a profile for a printing device. Specifically, the profile is generated by selecting a GCR profile from a plurality of GCR profiles and mapping a plurality of nodes to a device dependent color sp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159716 | Image processing device performing image correction by using a plurality of sample images An image processing device includes a first image inputting unit, a comprehensive first characteristic quantity data determining unit, a second image inputting unit, a second characteristic quantity data determining unit, and an image correcting unit. The first imag... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154761 | Method for color regulation of reproduction copies of a printing press A method for color regulation of reproduction copies of a printing press prints a substrate, which appears dark in a standardized color measurement, with at least one printing ink which is lighter than the substrate. At least one color value of the printing ink is d... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154764 | Image processing apparatus, printing apparatus and image processing method with generation of binary data according to a correspondence relationship defined by a dot arrangement pattern 17-valued data of a pixel in a multi-valued image is divided into two divisions for a two-pass printing, obtaining the division data. Next, by using an index pattern where arrangements of the numerals of 1 to 16 are dispersed, each dot data of C, M and Y in the divi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154763 | Image forming device, color data conversion method, and color data conversion program The present invention claims and discloses an image forming device for generating color data contained in a second color gamut of a second device based on color data contained in a first color gamut of a first device. The image forming device comprises a color data ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154762 | Image forming apparatus and method of controlling same In order to enlarge a gamut in the low-brightness region of the hue of a special color, an image forming apparatus comprises an input unit for inputting color image data for which an image is to be formed; a color separation unit for generating color data in which t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154765 | Methods and algorithms for adjusting gloss levels in printers A printer configured to adjust gloss appearance of images includes a marking engine configured to render an image on a substrate from input image data; and a controller configured to: (i) correlate a minimum luminance value to be used by the printer based on a gloss... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149459 | Mapping an out-of-gamut color to a surface of a color gamut What is disclosed is a system and method for mapping an out-of-gamut spot color to a surface boundary of a target color gamut of a color marking device in a color management system. The present method accurately detects the intersection of a point at the boundary su... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149460 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable encoding medium encoded with a computer program An image processing apparatus, including a color conversion part configured to conduct a color conversion of image data. The color conversion part extends an information amount of an output value in the color conversion based on a first minimum information amount po... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149457 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer readable medium recording a printing data generation program An image forming apparatus using a plurality of colorants for image formation, includes a generation unit which generates bitmap data, in which each pixel has a gradation value of each color of the colorants, with respect to an object of the image formation; a class... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149455 | Color reproduction method using B-spline approximation A units of red {u1-uA}, B units of green {v1-vB} and C units of blue {w1-wC} are sampled and measurements are performed, and an interpolation equation is found from the A×B×C units of data in three-... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149456 | Color processing method and image forming apparatus for creating a color separation table Restriction information on a total colorant amount for a medium is obtained. Patches at grid points in a color space corresponding to a plurality of colorants at which the total colorant amount falls within a restriction represented by the restriction information, a... | 04/03/2012 |
