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| 8031374 | Thermal recording device, image forming method and printed matter A control section 9 of a thermal printer 1 performs CMYK/RGB-gray conversion, gradation conversion, halftone conversion for an input image data 3, and performs shift processing and rotation processing in accordance with the resolution and the nu... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7760399 | Method and system for encoding color images to black-and-white bitmaps and decoding color images A method and system for encoding a color image into a monochrome halftoned image for printing, includes the use of a decoding mechanism to recover color information from the monochrome halftone image. A luminance channel associated with the color image can be utiliz... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7495805 | Enhancing an image, such as an image having bi-valued pixel values A method is proposed for converting an image in which each pixel takes one of two binary values, into an image in which each pixel can take continuous values. The method is iterative and works in the space domain. For each pixel, a neighborhood of the image is defin... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7394570 | Method and apparatus for eliminating seams in screened image data for repetitive printing A method of modifying screened image data so that there is no visible seam when the image is printed repeatedly in a circumferential direction, for example using a drum output device. One version applicable to images screened using a supercell includes cutting the i... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7375843 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus converts first image data of a first resolution N to second image data of a second resolution M, which is lower than the first resolution N, so as to output the second image data. The apparatus includes a processing unit for determining... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7365882 | Halftone screen frequency and magnitude estimation for digital descreening of documents A highly efficient method and system for eliminating halftone screens from scanned documents while preserving the quality and sharpness of text and line-art is disclosed. The method and system utilizes a single channel screen frequency estimator module, which genera... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352896 | Method for interpolation and sharpening of images A method, a system, a device, a storage means, and a computer software product for sharpening colours in an image, in which a first colour component is interpolated and sharpened in such a way that the effect of the colour component is computed in different directio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345790 | Method and apparatus for simulating 2 bit-per-pel printing on a bi-level printer using intelligent double dotting An image processing method and apparatus for enhancing the quality of a printed image without degrading overall printer performance or throughput by simulating 2 bit pel printing on a bi-level printer using intelligent double dotting. The present invention allows a ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342696 | Computational moiré compensation The amount of moiré in halftone printed images is reduced using unique moiré intensity functions and moiré vectors in a halftoner. In various embodiments, moiré phase angle zones are determined over the full field of an image and high addressability units in the... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7327495 | Image processing method and apparatus and image forming apparatus for reducing moiré fringes in output image A spatial filter applies a modulation transfer function correction process so as to increase a number of bits of input image data. A high-resolution converter converts the image data into output image data having a density higher than a sampling density of the input... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7304771 | Apparatus for printing an image A method of receiving image data indicative of an image and providing to a printer print data, corresponding to said image data, the print data being in a predetermined print format and having a predetermined print resolution, the method including the steps of recei... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298928 | Method for converting image from low resolution into high resolution A method of scaling up an image. The method converts a source image with M*N pixels into a target image with KM*HN pixels and includes the steps of: choosing a pixel from the source image as a processing pixel; analyzing the character of the processing pixel accordi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7286253 | Data processing apparatus capable of viewing and printing a plurality of screens A communication apparatus is provided which makes it possible to print out all data larger than a display screen in one operation. In addition, the communication apparatus reduces time required for print processing and eases a user's stress due to print waiting by d... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280705 | Tone correction method using a blending mask A digital imaging system includes an image sensor, a frame buffer and a tone correction circuit. The tone correction circuit computes tone corrected pixel data using one or more tone correction curves. In operation, tone corrected pixel data for a first pixel is com... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7271936 | Method for printing an image A method of receiving image data indicative of an image and providing to a printer print data, corresponding to said image data, the print data being in a predetermined print format and having a predetermined print resolution, the method including the steps of recei... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268916 | Digital image sharpening system A system and method for sharpening a digital image (38) having one or more image parameters, for printing with one or more print parameters, and for viewing at one or more viewing parameters, the method comprising the steps of preparing sharpening radius info... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265875 | Halftone super-cell optimization for artifact reduction Artifact reduction is achieved by altering the growth of sub-cells for each super-cell in either a pre-determined or random manner. The means of alteration is selected such that the sum of all the groups equals a halftone value. In another embodiment, the random gro... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7228002 | Inverse halftoning process Performing inverse halftoning on a halftoned image includes smoothing the halftoned image using a two-dimensional filter to produce a smoothed image, detecting edge areas in the smoothed image, performing lowpass filtering on non-edge areas of the smoothed image, an... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212174 | Systems and methods for sharing application data in a networked computing environment A system and method for facilitating application sharing in a networked environment is provided. Specifically, the system divides a display area on a host computer into a plurality of regions, with each region comprised of a predetermined number of current pixels. T... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7202888 | Electronic imaging device resolution enhancement A method of enhancing resolution in an electronic imaging device includes capturing an electronic image through a fisheye lens with a photodetector at a resolution native to the photodetector. A resolution is selected that is higher than the native resolution of the... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7187387 | Image processing apparatus capable of creating a dither matrix providing improved image quality In an image-processing employing a dither matrix a basic dither pattern is formed of a set of a plurality of basic patterns each including a plurality of pixels. In a single basic pattern a single pixel is assigned 1 serving as a number indicating an order followed ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187475 | System and method for a robust de-screening filter A method and apparatus for de-screening a halftone image, therefore allowing the recovery of an approximation of an original image, is disclosed. A method according to one embodiment first performs a screen conversion filter upon a scanned representation of the half... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184494 | Regenerated data signal generation apparatus A regenerated data signal generation circuit includes a receiving circuit, first and second binarization circuits and a signal preparation circuit. The receiving circuit receives a modulated signal and demodulates the modulated signal. The first binarization circuit... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7173743 | Image reading apparatus and method An image reading apparatus and method are provided which precisely correct shading due to dispersion of the spectral sensitivity characteristic of a reading area of a reading device. Second correction values for correcting, for each of R, G and B, shading due to par... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7164493 | Image processing method, system and apparatus, and storage medium A rasterizer generates bitmap images of RGB on the basis of object data inputted from a printer driver and stores the result in an image memory. The rasterizer brings attribute information representing attributes of the input object data into correspondence with eac... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161714 | Apparatus and method for processing images, and computer product Documents are read and the read image data and the information about the size of the document is stored in a memory. A factor of enlargement/reduction is calculated based on the stored size information. An image processor 204 interpolates the image data based... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151618 | Halftone dot producing apparatus and halftone dot producing program storage medium There are disclosed a halftone dot producing apparatus in which a phase of halftone dots is freely set up in at least one color plate of the color plates. The halftone dot producing apparatus has an image pixel position deriving section for deriving pixel positions ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7144167 | Color printing which renders multi tone color input codes to image data with reference to font data A printing apparatus has a printhead which can print in a multi tone levels, and a font memory for storing font data for respective colors including at least different grayscale data, in correspondence with codes. The apparatus reads out font data for respective col... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139102 | Image processing device, image processing method and remote-scan image processing system using the same In the image processing device, method and system of the present invention, a destination identifier of an image file is stored, the destination identifier indicating one of a plurality of external stations as a destination station which receives the image file from... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133161 | Rehalftoning of gray halftones with optimal screen frequency for robust suppression of moiré Optimal rehalftone screen frequencies are found by searching frequency space for points that are maximally spaced from significant frequency components of an input image halftone screen or screens. Selecting a rehalftone screen having a maximally spaced frequency pr... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7126722 | Image data conversion method and apparatus This invention is to correct a difference of dot gain between output devices. This invention for converting binary data for a first output device to binary data for a second output device includes the steps of: converting the binary data for the first output device ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7113654 | Computationally efficient modeling of imagery using scaled, extracted principal components A computationally efficient modeling system for imagery scales both the original image and corresponding principal component tiles in the same proportion to be able to extract scaled principal components. The system includes recovery of feature weights for the image... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110133 | Communication apparatus and image communication method A facsimile machine reads an image and stored the image data. The facsimile machine then receives information from the destination device on the image processing capabilities of the destination device. The facsimile machine performs color space conversion of the ima... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7095530 | Color vector halftoning using a successive filling with improved color registration latitude A method is provided for rendering a color image with a plurality of separations with a halftone process using a single screen. The screen is comprised of a plurality of pixel locations with associated threshold values and the image is comprised of a plurality of se... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085422 | Layer based compression of digital images A method for image separation of an image, wherein the image includes pixels, and the method includes identifying kernels, whereby characteristics of the kernels are reflected by at least one of the following operators, P(x−w,y)−P(x,y)>t AND P(x+w, y)−P(x,y)>t... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085005 | Method of and apparatus for distinguishing type of pixel Halftone pixels are distinguished from non-halftone pixels in pixels making up an image according to a predetermined algorithm based on a result of edge detection for determining whether the pixels are edge pixels. The pixels which have been determined to be non-hal... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080785 | Image-processing device, image-processing method and solid-state image-pickup device An image-processing device is provided. With respect to each line in a matrix, a shift register is installed for reading a line out that selects a line where a signal in response to carriers accumulated in an accumulation state for generating carriers in the photo d... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079687 | Method and apparatus for segmentation of compound documents A method for segmenting a compound document initiates with receiving image data, followed by processing the image data at both a first scale and a second scale. Next, region types of the compound document are determined according to a combination of processing outpu... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7068391 | Proofing method, apparatus, and computer software product matching color and halftone screen properties A method, apparatus, and computer software product to reproduce an input image on a proofing device including accurately reproducing color substantially matching the screening properties of an imaging process that includes screening. The proofer may use a different ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7057774 | Halftone method employing 1 to 1 screening The invention provides a procedure that is applicable to various halftoning methods, which minimizes image distortion introduced by the halftoning process. The procedure involves maintaining specific relationships between the halftone pattern and the phase and resol... | 06/06/2006 |
