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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8035866 | Image reading device, copy apparatus, and image reading method An image reading device of the present invention includes a reading means for reading a manuscript along a main-scanning direction as well as reading image information of the manuscript which relatively moves along a sub-scanning direction and a determination means ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7995249 | Apparatus and method for image forming An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention reads an original by mechanically moving an axial light source in a subscanning direction perpendicular to the axis. The image forming apparatus includes: a sensor whose resolution in a main scan... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7808679 | Printing system for operating marginless printing on roll paper A printing system performing marginless printing. The system includes a host device operable to send image data, and a recording device performs marginless recording based on the image data received from the host device. The system includes a setting unit setting th... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7652800 | Apparatus and method for image forming An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention reads an original by mechanically moving an axial light source in a subscanning direction perpendicular to the axis. The image forming apparatus includes: a sensor whose resolution in a main scan... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7564594 | Digital multifunctional imaging apparatus In a digital multifunctional apparatus, enlargement/reduction parameters for respective pixels are calculated by an image processing circuit multiplying a length enlargement/reduction ration output from a CPU by pixel numbers of an image read by an image sensor, in ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7440716 | Image copying apparatus and image copying method An image copying apparatus includes a control panel to a user interface; a scanner; a memory that stores an image; an image rotation processing unit that rotates the image depending on the direction in which the image is to be printed; a printer; a printer controlle... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434160 | PDF document to PPML template translation A system and method of operation is configured to produce a PPML template from a PDF document. In one implementation, the system opens the PDF document and converts PDF elements within the PDF document into variable objects. A macro is generated, which contains rule... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430059 | Systems, methods and graphical user interfaces for interactively previewing a scanned document A system and method for scanning and reprocessing an image, including capturing and storing scanned image data in a memory of an image scanner; processing the scanned image data in accordance with at least one predetermined image parameter; transmitting the processe... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7408672 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image forming method When a print key on a console panel is depressed, a main CPU confirms enlargement/reduction rate information input via the console panel, and then, performs line thinning by setting a line thinning parameter according to the same magnification, an enlargement rate o... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7391526 | Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system and medium used in transmitting/receiving an E-mail with a file attached thereto In transmitting/receiving an E-mail with a file attached to it, the contents of the attached file is to be displayed in a reception terminal irrespective of the file format of a file attached to the E-mail, the image size or the maximum number of colors in displayin... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391530 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a generation unit for generating one page of a print image which is larger than one sheet of paper, and a printing unit for performing printing on one sheet of paper based on one page of the print image, which is larger than the paper a... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7382497 | Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method An image pickup apparatus and an image pickup method perform different processing on signals from respective photoelectric conversion portions in accordance with changes of photographing conditions. The signals to be subjected to the different processing are output ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7375845 | Picture printing system Using a picture image printing system, both types of pictures recorded by a camera using a film and a digital camera are effectively printed. The printing system comprises a film scanner for inputting a picture recorded on a film, and a card reader for inputting a p... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372051 | Electric charged particle beam microscopy, electric charged particle beam microscope, critical dimension measurement and critical dimension measurement system Magnification errors are reduced in the required range of magnification in electric charged particle beam application apparatuses and critical dimension measurement instruments. To achieve this, a first image, whose magnification for the specimen is actually measure... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365757 | Method and apparatus for independent video and graphics scaling in a video graphics system A method and apparatus for independent video and graphics scaling in a video graphics system is accomplished by receiving a video data stream, wherein the video data stream includes video data in a first format. A graphics data stream is also received, and the graph... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352487 | Print control system, print control method, memory medium, and program Even if print data is print-outputted from which printing apparatus upon distribution print, a print result in which there is no missing part of an image can be obtained. As a print area of a color MFP 104 and a monochromatic MFP 105 upon distribution ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342598 | Apparatus and method for recording image on printing plate A printing apparatus with a plate-making mechanism with a data modification part for modifying width of an original image in a subscan direction by computation to obtain a modified image and a controller for recording an image with its length in a main scan directio... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333238 | Rendering a printing device pixel map A device and method to render a page in a printing device are described. In an implementation, an object to be rendered onto the pixel map is converted from a description in pixel coordinates to a representation in lower resolution surface units. The lower resolutio... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321446 | Color image processing device and color image processing method A color image processing device includes n line sensors which are arranged with a prescribed interval L between one another, an image signal output unit which outputs image signals under a prescribed cycle from the line sensors and a line memory which stores the ima... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321699 | Signal intensity range transformation apparatus and method A system and method for manipulating image data is disclosed. Generally, the system and method identifies useful grey-levels within an input image. The image is then scaled based upon the identified useful grey-levels. ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321452 | Image processing apparatus An object of the invention is to enable appropriate interpolation even in a halftone image binarized by error diffusion or the like. While image reading signals from a hand scanner are inputted to an A/D conversion section and converted to multivalued digital signal... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319811 | Information processing apparatus and method A moving image processing apparatus can perform a zoom process for each frame image of moving image data in an digital zoom section. An image quality determining section determines an image quality of a frame image obtained through the zoom process in reproduction, ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317551 | Method and apparatus for tab sheet printing There are provided a printing control apparatus and printing system which can accurately print index information on the tab portion of a tab sheet without any print offset. A position where index information (Section 1-Section 5) is to be printed on ea... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317552 | Print data forming apparatus, print data forming method, and computer-readable program A center position designated for an image is inputted and print data which is printed is formed so that the image is printed lest a blank occurs on a sheet and the center position designated for the inputted image is located at the center of the sheet, so that a bor... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315402 | Image forming apparatus and method for selecting an optimal image space frequency for an output image An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device configured to form an output image using at least two or more image space frequencies and an image size acquisition device configured to recognize a size of the output image. A switching device is configure... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315399 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An input section performs a color conversion process, etc. for image data from a color scanner section. A discrimination section generates a discrimination signal representative of “character”, “non-character”, etc. on the basis of an image signal from the i... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7304757 | System and method for secure printing The present disclosure relates to a system and method for secure printing. In one arrangement, the system and method pertain to receiving a document to be printed, determining that the document cannot be printed in its present form, transmitting the document to a co... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301674 | Translation of an input pixel value to an output pixel value A device to translate an input pixel value to an output pixel value for a current pixel includes a diffusion block to produce a diffusion error to add to the input pixel value to produce a diffused pixel value. In addition, the device includes a feedback modulation ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302473 | Internet information displaying apparatus and internet information displaying method An Internet information displaying apparatus comprising character signal generating means for generating a character signal and displaying it on the screen of the displaying means, and character signal generation controlling means for detecting the state of transmis... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298510 | Image enlargement through poster printing by combining pattern data with image data A printing system for enlarging/printing each document page by using a plurality of print sheets or for printing each page of a document upon superimposing a pattern on each page includes, in a printer driver which supplies print data to a printer, a user interface ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295701 | Methods and systems for efficiently processing image data for reproduction The methods and systems according to the current invention allow the use of slower and inexpensive image-processing components by approximating or compressing color image data prior to image processing such as enlarging, reducing and cutting an original image withou... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292369 | Logo data generating method and system A logo generating system and method allow a user to specify colors and adjust an image according to the particular printing purpose. Source data of image elements with two or more colors is obtained and displayed so that the user can view an image of the source data... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289240 | Method and apparatus to correct the length of an image in a flatten scanner A method and an apparatus to correct the length of an image in a flatten scanner. The method includes moving an image sensor by driving a motor; calculating a first number of pixels; calculating a difference between the first number of pixels and a second number of ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286720 | Image processing apparatus, image input/output apparatus, scaling method and memory control method The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a scaling method and a memory control method, by which input image data is written to an external memory in tiles, the tiles written to the external memory are read, and... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277111 | Multiple speed modes for an electrophotographic device An electrophotographic device comprises a printhead having at least one laser associated with a corresponding photoconductive surface. Where multiple laser beams are associated with the same photoconductive surface, the laser beams are spaced a predetermined distanc... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274389 | Camera apparatus and image processing system with variable resolution In an image capture apparatus, the data rate of image data output from the image capture device is changed by calculating a first data rate of the image data according to a first size of a variable display area that displays the image data. Information indicating th... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271842 | Video signal processing circuit and method for converting number of scan lines and image display device using the same A double-rate signal achieved by subjecting a video signal to double-rate conversion is supplied to a scan line number converter. In the converter, the portion of the effective scan lines of the double-rate signal is written into a frame memory on the basis of a sig... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272268 | Registration of separations Separations or images relating to film or other fields may be registered using a variety of features, such as, for example: (1) correcting one or more film distortions; (2) automatically determining a transformation to reduce a film distortion; (3) applying multiple... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270420 | Optical scanner An optical scanner suitable for scanning a vertical object. The optical scanner has a scanning body, a focusing device and a scanning module. The scanning body has a transparent window, the focusing device has an arm, a reflective mirror and a lens. One end of the a... | 09/18/2007 |
