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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8134754 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and image processing apparatus An image forming apparatus which executes an image creation on the basis of image creation data including a first document identifier has: an input unit which inputs the image creation data; a storing unit which previously stores a second document identifier for lim... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125693 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image forming method, image processing program, and recording medium Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that receives image data scanned by first and second image scanning units and performs various image processing. The apparatus includes first and second blank-sheet detection units that detect whether the scanned image data... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8045238 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image reading apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a first log conversion unit configured to execute gradation conversion processing for copying on an image signal generated by reading an original, an output-signal converting unit configured to generate an output signal from th... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7982922 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for confirming electronic data character quality, and computer program therefor According to the present invention, an image processing apparatus comprises scanning unit that converts a original image into image data; extraction unit that extracts an area that contains characters of every character size from the image data scanned by the scanni... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7787158 | Data processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, data processing method, image processing method, and programs for implementing the methods A data processing apparatus that is capable of improving the accuracy with which form types can be identified. An image file of a form and an additional file including a form type ID of the form are inputted. A character recognition process on the image file is carr... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7755806 | Image communication device An image communication device which transmits and receives image data through an IP network by using a call control protocol, and in particular, a facsimile machine which prevents a wrongful reception of the image data by spoofing by transmitting the image data afte... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7739583 | Multimedia document sharing method and apparatus A document sharing system includes producing an updatable collection of multimedia documents. A collection coversheet provides a facile medium for handling and distributing large collections of documents. The system includes techniques for subsequent access to the c... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7706027 | Print management system and print management method Each print job received from a client computer 30 is divided into minimum printing units as divisional jobs, which are stored in a job folder 23b. When either of an upper spooler 23d and a lower spooler 23e has any va... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7561310 | Method and apparatus for digital scanning and archiving A new and improved method for digital scanning and archiving is disclosed herein. The method includes sorting the associated documents into separate files, placing the files onto a movable table, digitally imaging the associated documents, coding the processed files... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7525694 | Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium An image processing system is provided that performs object-oriented image processing and collectively manages image data, image elements, and the history and state of the image processing. In this image processing system, an original image object to be normalized i... | 04/28/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7400766 | Image edge extraction via fuzzy reasoning A computer-based technique for detecting edges in gray level digital images employs fuzzy reasoning to analyze whether each pixel in an image is likely on an edge. The image is analyzed on a pixel-by-pixel basis by analyzing gradient levels of pixels in a square win... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7382481 | Image communication device, method of communicating image, program and recording medium An image communication device transmitting image information selectively generates a transmission-result report, where the contents of the transmission-result report vary depending on selected transmission conditions. Under a first condition, the transmission-result... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379595 | Manual windowing with auto-segmentation assistance in a scanning system A manual windowing with auto-segmentation assistance method and system are disclosed that include defining manual tags to be assigned to one or more windows via a tag selection module, assigning the defined manual tags to the one or more windows via a manual tag ass... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375859 | Method and apparatus for correcting scanning error in flatbed scanner An apparatus and method for correcting a scanning error in a flatbed scanner, can minimize the scanning error due to deviations in position or scanning of a CCD (charge-coupled device) module by determining a scanning position, a scan region, and a scan rate for eac... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376272 | Method for image segmentation to identify regions with constant foreground color The present invention is a method for image segmentation to produce a mixed raster content (MRC) image with constant foreground layers. The invention extracts uniform text and other uniform color objects that carry detail information. The method includes four primar... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373011 | Density-dependent sharpening A sharpening filter is disclosed for performing density-dependent sharpening on digital images. In one embodiment, a digital image to be sharpened is decomposed into a plurality of high-pass versions of the image at different resolutions. These high-pass images are ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369279 | System and method to restrict copying, scanning and transmittal of documents or parts of documents A document-security system, methodology, resulting secured documents, and related matters, regarding establishing flexible and versatile control over the acts of scanning, copying, faxing, e-mailing, or otherwise reproducing or converting into another data format, s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369258 | Network communication device A network communication device measures an elapsed time from the transmission of facsimile data prepared by an e-mail message composing section to the reception of a delivery verification response by a clock section. In accordance with the measurement, a time managi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369713 | Image processing apparatus and method for determining whether an image is of a vertical or horizontal writing An image processing apparatus, including a transform unit configured to wavelet-transform image data into a set of wavelet coefficients, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the image data is of a vertical writing or of a horizontal writing based... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365873 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium Color image data is inputted, flag data indicative of attributes (character image, figure image, mesh image) of each pixel of an inputted image is generated, image processes, an enlargement, and a reduction according to the flag data are executed, the processed data... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362336 | Four color digital cinema system with extended color gamut and copy protection A color display system including a display device for four or more visible color primaries and a processor for controlling the four or more color primaries to selectively render portions of an image or image sequence such that visually equivalent colors displayed in... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362474 | Printing quality enhancement via graphic/text detection method in compression (JPEG) image The present invention relates to a printing quality enhancement via graphic/text detection method in compression (JPEG) image, wherein an unit of a n×n pixels of plural compressed subimages of a compressed image is taken as a minimum feature extraction unit, and th... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359080 | Playback apparatus, electronic camera apparatus, function expansion apparatus for electronic camera apparatus, control method for electronic camera apparatus, control method for image communication apparatus, and medium for providing control program In order to provide a convenient digital camera which eliminates the necessity to designate a printer to print in advance and can print image data obtained by photography by reliably transmitting it to a printer existing on a radio network with simple operation, the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355744 | Image processing method for superimposing high-resolution character data on low-resolution image data 600 dpi binary character shape data is created from 600 dpi character data inputted by a PC and written sequentially to a memory. The 600 dpi character data inputted from the PC and 300 dpi image data are stored as 300 dpi 8-bit graphics data. Next, 600 dpi 8-bit mu... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352899 | Realistic machine-generated handwriting with personalized fonts There are provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include characteristics of particular classes and/or characteristics of particular indi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352490 | Method and system for generating contone encoded binary print data streams A method and system to convert an electronic image file described in a page description language containing both contone and non-contone image objects to an intermediate binary format image. The intermediate format image separately encodes the contone and non-conton... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352495 | Image reading apparatus When an optical image obtained by an optical scanning unit of optically scanning an original sheet automatically fed by an original sheet feeder is read, it is discriminated in units of pixel whether or not dirt or scratch attached to a running reading glass plate i... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349128 | Image scanner and peak detecting processing method of image scanner A sheet image scanner of the present invention has plural image sensors to output electric signals by detecting optical image data that are obtained by applying a light from a light source to documents, amplifiers to amplify outputs from the plural image sensors, an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349571 | Image processing apparatus and pattern extraction apparatus A control unit selects a first labeling for a color image in a small number of colors so that the labeling is performed by clustering a color palette, and selects a second labeling for a color image in a large number of colors so that the labeling is performed by an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339699 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a first sensor having a plurality of reading elements arranged in the primary scanning direction, a second sensor disposed in parallel with the first sensor and by a predetermined lines in the secondary scanning direction, an i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340092 | Image processing device, image processing method, program for executing image processing, and computer readable recording medium on which the program is stored An image processing device extracts graphic areas, for example, firstly from image data received, and then extracts other remaining areas, i.e., photographic and character areas. The areas that are extracted firstly can be photographic or character areas. This preve... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333657 | Recognizing text in a multicolor image A method and apparatus for identifying and reproducing a background of a pixelmap. The method includes dividing the pixelmap into a grid of tiles, determining for each tile a background component and building a representation of a background in the pixelmap using th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333247 | Image capturing apparatus When in single-sided capturing mode(s), because image(s) of both sides of first original sheet(s) is or are captured by first and second capturing components 10, 23, front side(s) of the original(s) being identified based on the image(s) of both sides of the ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330596 | Image decoding technique for suppressing tile boundary distortion An image decoding device for decoding a hierarchically encoded compressed code obtained by dividing an image into a plurality of tiles and performing discrete wavelet transform on the pixel values of the image tile by tile includes a tile boundary smoothing part tha... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330600 | Image processing device estimating black character color and ground color according to character-area pixels classified into two classes A character area is extracted from an original image, which is a digital image, according to a feature value calculated with respect to the original image. Pixels belonging to the extracted character area are classified into a first class and a second class accordin... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327884 | Realistic machine-generated handwriting There have thus been provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include characteristics of particular classes and/or characteristics of part... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324244 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes a first-image-reading-portion composed of a plurality of line sensors used to read a color image, a second-image-reading-portion composed of at least one line sensor used to read a monochrome image, a first-image-processing-portio... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321450 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and recording medium According to an image processing method for performing color processing in accordance with a plurality of image objects, image data representing the plurality of image objects is input. The relationship between the plurality of image objects is analyzed. The plurali... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319543 | Image forming system An image forming system includes a PDL job receiving unit for receiving a PDL job generated by use of a page description language, a print image forming unit for interpreting the PDL job and forming a print image, a compression unit for compressing the print image, ... | 01/15/2008 |
