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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189235 | Apparatus, method and program product that calculates a color blending ratio so security dots reproduced in a monochrome image are substantially undetectable The invention provides an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a recording medium and a program capable of suppressing security dots from being reproducible visibly while enhancing reproduction of a color, in an original, specified by a user, in t... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189234 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium storing image processing program An image processing apparatus is disclosed. In the image processing apparatus, a vector converting section converts image data output from a color scanner into vector coefficients, and a color mapping section converts the image data, which are converted into the vec... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184340 | Method for color rendering using scanned halftone classification What is disclosed is an image path that advantageously uses halftone classification to select appropriate mappings in gray-scale management and color management operations. The tags generated in the scanner help identify different classes of halftones. One is select... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179571 | Apparatus, method and program for processing an image An image processing apparatus includes a comparison unit, a change unit, and a printing unit to perform variable printing in a form of a composite of a master page and a variable page. The comparison unit compares a color of the master page and a color of the variab... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179570 | Generating image embedded with UV fluorescent watermark by combining binary images generated using different halftone strategies Methods are provided for creating a fluorescent watermark within an image on a substrate, such as paper. The method involves creating a halftone image using two different halftone strategies. The halftone method is combined with a binary watermark mask to form two c... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174730 | Printing control device, printing system and printing control program In Step S230, an ICM P3a1 calculates an ink amount set φ capable of reproduction of the same spectral reflectivity R (λ) as a target spectral reflectivity Rt (λ) indicated by a spectral reflectivity data RD. An ECM P3... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169662 | System and method for reducing print delays for print jobs There is disclosed a printing system for processing an electronic document with an original stream having at least two printing related instructions. Responsive to reading the at least two printing related instructions with a controller; the original stream is split... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164794 | Image-forming apparatus and method for adjusting total amount of toner in trap The present invention provides an image-forming apparatus capable of reducing the amount of toner at a position at which the trapping is carried out. The apparatus has an image-deformation processing unit where input image data is processed to deform the image shape... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159717 | Image processing apparatus Combining section 21 creates the composite image data by combining the image data of the original image and the additional image, and log management section 22 stores the condition of composite images at the time of image combining as log information | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159718 | Image processing to determine if pixel in compressed data is chromatic or achromtic based on selection threshold An image processing apparatus includes a decision unit which decides a color selection threshold based on received compressed data from external apparatus, and a determination unit which determines according to the color selection threshold if a pixel included in th... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154766 | Image processing device, image forming system, image forming method and computer readable medium storing program An image processing device includes plural image processing units that perform image processing on print data; a delivery unit that delivers a whole set of print data formed of plural segments to the plural image processing units; and a sending unit that sends a pro... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149461 | Image processing apparatus and method to compensate for displacement of different printing positions in different colors An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit; an edge detecting unit; a transparency setting unit; an image data generating unit; and an instruction unit. The acquisition unit acquires print data, the print data indicating an object image and a backgr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130415 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and control method thereof, which form an image by applying N-ary processing In order to form a high-quality image, upon execution of multi-pass printing using a printing head with a plurality of nozzles, an image processing apparatus calculates, using a scan duty setting unit, scan duty data for respective nozzles for each scan of the print... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8111426 | Head unit, droplet discharging apparatus, droplet discharging system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, status information notifying method, status information updating method, faulty position detecting method, and programs The present invention provides a droplet discharging apparatus including a discharge head for deflectively discharging droplets through one discharge port at a plurality of pixel areas in adaptive fashion. The discharge head is controlled to discharge droplets at an... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111427 | Information processing apparatus for outputting image-forming print data to an external image-forming apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus through an interface among a plurality of interfaces with different data transfer speeds In an image forming system, an information processing apparatus (host computer) outputs print data to a printer connected to the apparatus through an interface. The apparatus includes an interface identifying module for identifying the type of the interface, a query... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102569 | Conversion to alternative color space using a cache A conversion cache can be used to perform a color conversion by selecting a pixel included in an image, wherein a source color space value is associated with the pixel; locating the source color space value in a conversion cache, wherein the conversion cache is gene... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098402 | Document targeting systems and methods A raster image target tracking method, the raster image being a binary raster image or a targeted contone raster image, may include determining target information that corresponds to a target device for the raster image, saving the target information in a memory, co... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8081345 | Head unit, droplet discharging apparatus, droplet discharging system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, status information notifying method, status information updating method, faulty position detecting method, and programs The present invention provides a droplet discharging apparatus including a discharge head for deflectively discharging droplets through one discharge port at a plurality of pixel areas in adaptive fashion. The discharge head is controlled to discharge droplets at an... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081346 | System to create image transparency in a file generated utilising a print stream A method to generate image transparency in a file created from a print stream includes accessing a source file of a source application, extracting transparency information from an image within the source file to generate a non-transparent image prior to generating a... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8045229 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and medium An image processing apparatus comprises an extraction unit configured to extract areas having predetermined attributes from image data of a document; a calculation unit configured to calculate skew angles of the areas extracted by the extraction unit; a selection un... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045230 | Image processing apparatus, method, computer program product, and image forming apparatus, detecting a halftone area based on a rearranged halftone dot detection result A halftone pixel detection unit detects pixels near center pixels of halftone pixels by comparing a density difference between a target pixel and each of neighboring pixels of image data with a predetermined threshold. A halftone pixel rearranging unit rearranges th... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045231 | Method and apparatus for performing digital image processing without rasterization A method including storing a plurality of segments. Each of the segments includes a first drawing command to render a scanline on a rendering device. The segments are non-overlapping. The method further includes receiving a page element. The page element includes a ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045228 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus including a data inputting part for inputting image data, a document recognizing part for recognizing the image data as a document, a document storing part for storing document data corresponding to the document recognized by the docume... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045227 | Print controlling device, image forming device, print controlling method, and computer readable recording medium storing control program Disclosed is a print controlling device including a control unit to control printing according to an instruction which relates to the printing, wherein the control unit analyzes a page description language which relates to the printing, determines whether the printi... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040565 | Image processing device, image forming apparatus including same, image processing method, and image processing program An image processing device including an image signal reception unit configured to receive an image signal of an image to be processed; a density reduction area detector configured to detect a density reduction area satisfying predetermined image density reduction re... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035858 | Image processing apparatus and method allow user to set a sequence of instructions For image processing, user's setting of an item is received, and the item set by the user is recorded with information on situation of the setting of the item as setting log data. A parameter on reuse value is calculated based on one or more setting log data in the ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031371 | Image processing apparatus and method controlling the amount of transparent ink for recording An image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of a first coloring material in an area including a plurality of pixels; a determination unit configured to determine an allowable amount of a second coloring material in the... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031370 | Device and method removes background component from image using white reference value and background removal level value An image processing device includes a histogram generation unit configured to generate a density histogram on the basis of image data of an original document, a white-reference value detection unit configured to acquire as a white reference value a density value at ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031369 | Method, computer program product and device for generating and processing document data with media-related color management resources In a method or device to generate or process a resource-based document data stream with which an output of at least one document on an output medium can be controlled, the document data stream is provided with resource reference data related to at least one color ma... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023150 | Method and system for improved copy quality by generating contone value based on pixel pattern and image context type around pixel of interest A method and system reconstructs a contone image from a binary image by first tagging pixels to identify one of a multiplicity of image content types. The tag information and the pattern of bits surrounding the pixel to be converted to a contone value are used to re... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018622 | Image forming apparatus and image processing apparatus An image forming apparatus is constituted by a dark color image forming station for forming an image with such a toner of recording materials having the same hue and different lightness as has a lower lightness; a light color image forming station for forming an ima... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014031 | Formation of picture image having gradation expressed by fill area and one-line image data A gradation conversion process section converts gradation made up of a plurality of filled regions and filling colors thereof into one-line image data of a filled region into which the plurality of filled regions is unified. A data transmitting process section trans... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7995242 | Systems and methods for attenuation of near-neutral image colors A method for attenuation of near-neutral image colors is described. The pixel chroma is determined. A chroma control point is determined. A pixel color is shifted toward neutral. An imaging device that is configured for attenuation of near-neutral image colors is de... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990579 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method for edge detection processing and determination An image processing apparatus includes: an acceptance section; an edge detection section; and a screen processing section, wherein the edge detection section includes: a first edge determination section that subjects a pixel of interest to edge determination by refe... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986440 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and control method thereof, which form an image by applying N-ary processing In order to form a high-quality image, upon execution of multi-pass printing using a printing head with a plurality of nozzles, an image processing apparatus calculates, using a scan duty setting unit, scan duty data for respective nozzles for each scan of the print... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978371 | Vector half-toning with minimum luminance variation dot formation What is disclosed is a system and method for improving vector halftoning in ink-jet printers capable of dot-on-dot printing. In one embodiment, n input Ci/Mi/Yi channel and a colorant Ki are received. If any of the Ci... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7973971 | Gray component replacement in color conversions A method includes receiving a first value in a first color space for conversion to a second value in a second color space. The first color space includes luminance, chroma, and hue components and the second includes black and multiple color components. The method in... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969615 | Image forming apparatus and image processing apparatus An image forming apparatus forms an image for a latent image portion of which density is relatively higher with a dark color image forming portion, and forms an image for a background portion of which density is relatively decreased or of which image disappears, wit... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969614 | Image forming apparatus capable of outputting color and monochrome images, control method thereof and computer readable recording medium An image forming apparatus outputting a color image and a monochrome image obtains data for output image by RIP-convert of accepted image data, and extracts feature of the data for output image. When the data for output image is determined to correspond to a color i... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961354 | Image-forming apparatus and method for adjusting total amount of toner in trap The present invention provides an image-forming apparatus capable of reducing the amount of toner at a position at which the trapping is carried out. The apparatus has an image-deformation processing unit where input image data is processed to deform the image shape... | 06/14/2011 |
