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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7869089 | Method and system for predicting print colors A profile generator determines differences between the standard spectral reflectances of a color chart printed under standard density conditions and the spectral reflectances of a color chart printed while the density of one of the colors C, M, Y, K is changed, and ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864364 | Color correction of images A color transformation method which accounts for colorant interactions includes establishing a plurality of tone reproduction curves (TRCs), for one or more of the color separations forming a digital image. Each TRC accounts for colorant interactions between a prima... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864365 | Methods and systems for segmenting a digital image into regions Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for segmenting a digital image into regions. A frequency-of-occurrence of image values may be determined excluding a portion of pixels in a digital image. An image value associated with a peak in the fre... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864368 | Image forming apparatus, image reading apparatus, and control method thereof An image forming apparatus of the invention includes a read unit to read an original document, a storage unit to store an image file of the original document read by the read unit, a control unit to control storage and readout of the image file into and from the sto... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864362 | Color image and monochrome image imaging process The following processes are performed when generating new image data by modifying the color tones of images in image data: First the user is allowed to select a parameter from a plurality of modification candidate parameters corresponding to mutually differing modif... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864363 | Image processing method and image output system An image processing apparatus includes a first unit for converting primary color data into color data for outputting a dark color material only in a first mode, and a second unit for converting the primary color data into color data for outputting both the dark colo... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864369 | Large-area imaging by concatenation with array microscope An imaging apparatus consists of multiple miniaturized microscopes arranged into an array capable of simultaneously imaging respective portions of an object. A continuous linear translation approach is followed to scan the object and generate multiple image swaths o... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864366 | Method and system for improved space filling interpolation Document processing systems and methods are presented for transforming color image data from an input color space to output color space using space filling interpolation to mitigate loss of color information at the corners of color gamuts. An initial interpolation o... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864367 | Image processing system and image processing method A printer divides an input image into a plurality of blocks and extracts a block image corresponding to each of the blocks. The colors of the block image are reduced to, for example, four colors. Index numbers are given to pixels of the color-reduced image, and the ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864370 | Copy machine with image rotation and back surface reading based on memory capacity required A copy machine including: an original reading apparatus having a front and back surface image reading sensors, being capable of setting plural original documents, feeding out one by one, and simultaneously reading both surfaces of the documents; an image forming app... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864371 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product An image processing apparatus includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a selecting unit, a first converting unit, a second converting unit, and a compressing unit. The second storage unit stores therein data on a color reproduction area of an output dev... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864374 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus An image forming method that forms an image by using inks of secondary chromatic colors based on an input image, the method including: forming a test pattern that uses a color chart with the entire secondary chromatic colors of the used inks by using a normal color ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864373 | Method and system for toner reproduction curve linearization using least squares solution of monotone spline functions Methods are presented for calibrating or characterizing a printing system with respect to at least one color, in which a toner reproduction curve (TRC) is measured and curve-fitted according to a least squares solution using a set of spline basis functions having hi... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864372 | Color conversion apparatus and color conversion method A color conversion method including the steps of a) generating output values corresponding to a body-center of each cubic lattice block included in a three-dimensional input space, and interpolating between the output values generated in step a) and the LUT values. ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859720 | Image forming apparatus and method thereof In a line by line image forming apparatus, line switching information which depends on scan line curve and an overlap data length to be read that overlaps across a plurality of lines before and after a switching position instructed by line switching information are ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859721 | Smoothly changing gray levels in color transforms Systems and methods, including computer software products, for processing gray colors in a conversion between color spaces involve identifying a non-pure gray color value in a color space that represents a substantially gray color. The methods further include conver... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859722 | Preserving pure gray colors in a workflow Systems and methods, including computer software products, for processing gray colors in a conversion between color spaces involve identifying a lookup table used to convert a color value from a first color space to a second color space. The method includes identify... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859719 | Print control program, print control apparatus, and print control method According to the present invention, a print control apparatus for displaying a print preview, comprises the units adapted to: spool print data created by application; issue a rendering instruction of the spooled print data to a graphic engine together with output in... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859718 | Image output device, color correction method, and computer readable medium storing program for color correction An image output device includes: a color conversion processing unit that converts output-use image data into image data of a standard CMYK color space; and a color correction processing unit that conducts color correction of the image data of the standard CMYK color... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859717 | Method for setting image-processing parameter value An image processing device includes an image processing unit that produces a plurality of sample images of a certain image in correspondence to values for at least one parameter for processing the certain image; a sheet forming unit that forms a setting sheet used f... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859715 | Printing control device, printing control method, and medium recording printing control program A second printing control unit is provided. If the setting information is the information of setting for avoiding the use of Cl ink (uncolored ink), the second printing control unit refers to the same color conversion table as is used by a first printing control uni... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859716 | Optimizing to-be-printed objects during print job processing Methods for processing print jobs in rendering devices include representing multiple to-be-printed objects with fewer such objects before processing of the objects occurs. In this manner, processing and memory requirements are optimized. Examples include utilizing a... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7855806 | Banding profile estimator using multiple sampling intervals A method of integrating multiple sampling interval image data with timing information from a defect once-around sensor and the machine page sync signals to estimate a banding profile. By augmenting the sampling interval data with the timing data, proper phasing of e... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7855807 | Digital image processor spot color workflow test file An electronic portable document format (PDF) file contains different combinations of gradient blends between spot color and process color. Each gradient blend is represented as both rasterized bitmap and vector images. The rasterized bitmap and vector images can be ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7855808 | Printing system and printing apparatus A printing system includes a processing device, a printing device and a display device. The processing device processes image data in accordance with a set image quality parameter. The printing device performs a printing process of an image represented by the image ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7852511 | Image processing apparatus and method, for producing a color separation table A color separation table capable of performing both limitation of a color material applied in printing, and suppression of a false contour by smoothing processing satisfactorily is generated. Specifically, after generating the color separation table, smoothing proce... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852512 | Color image processing device and medium employed for the same A color image processing device configured to process input color image data includes a specifying unit configured to specify a gray region including a gray axis within a color gamut of the input color image data in a color space, a first setting unit configured to ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7847973 | Color mapping circuit A system and method that provide full color mapping of video images with minimal distortion to the image. A two-dimensional look up table may be used to map a certain number of colors, and for colors that are not represented by entries in the table, the four closest... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847974 | Systems and methods for dynamically limiting total colorant coverage in a color rendering system Systems and methods for dynamically limiting total colorant coverage in multi-colorant rendering. Two polyhedra are defined: one contains all the colors that exceed the total colorant limit, and another is within the colorant limit that contains the results of the c... | 12/07/2010 |
| RE41985 | Gloss-imparting device and color image-forming apparatus A gloss-imparting device for imparting a gloss on a color image, the gloss-imparting device has a transparent toner image-carrying body, a transparent toner image-forming unit, a heating/pressurizing unit, and a cooling/releasing unit. The transparent toner image-ca... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847975 | Converting black to composite black in digital printing A method of converting black to composite/process black in a digital color print engine. A lightness adjustment is employed for converting input image (O, O, O, Kin) to Ko and initial values of Co, Mo, Yo are se... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847976 | Image output color management system and method Disclosed is an image output device color management system. The color management system includes a 2 dimensional principle component analysis (PCA) compensation method for reducing the number of measurement required for re-profiling a device, such as a printer.... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7843603 | Image processing apparatus When one or both of color conversion data for chromatic colors and color conversion data for achromatic colors are rewritten, attribute information of the color conversion data for chromatic colors or the color conversion data for achromatic colors is updated and th... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843604 | Image correcting device, image forming apparatus, and image correcting method A pattern generating unit generates correction patterns on a transfer belt. Detection sensors detect the correction patterns, and amounts of magnification correction, amounts of misregistration in the main- and the sub-scanning direction are calculated. The amount o... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843605 | Color processing apparatus and method thereof Implementation of color matching with a high accuracy between a device of luminous type and a device of non-luminous type is demanded. Hence, a combination of the device type of a source device and the device type of a destination device is discriminated. If a devic... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843601 | Method for forming a color image A method for forming a color image that allows a color image forming device to detect print chromaticity by an actually used print medium and automatically perform an optimal color balance adjustment in consideration of the chromaticity of the print medium. At a fir... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843599 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus For each combination of color material signals corresponding to an input image signal, a total color material use amount is calculated. On the other hand, on the basis of a predetermined target color, total color material use amounts are set which vary smoothly in a... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843602 | Image inspection apparatus, image inspecting method, and program therefor An image inspection apparatus used when an externally input image is processed and converted to printing data, and the printing data is output to a predetermined printer to allow the printer to generate a photographic print, comprising: ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843600 | Information processing apparatus In an information processing method, input color data indicating a plurality of color components including a black color component is converted into output color data that indicates a plurality of color components including a black color component. A relationship be... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839536 | Image processing apparatus Color conversion data used in converting an image signal into color information represented by color materials is saved in a color-conversion-data saving unit and, when the color conversion data is rewritten, before rewriting of the color conversion data, the color ... | 11/23/2010 |
