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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7751103 | Method of sequencing image data inside memory of optical scanning device An image data sequencing method for a memory unit inside an optical scanning device. The image data sequencing method is particularly suitable for scanning a line of pixels with each pixel comprising a plurality of primary colors. The image data sequencing method in... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7443525 | Image data processing method, image scanning apparatus, POS terminal, and electronic payment system Image data is processed appropriately even when there is a problem with a storage component of an image scanning apparatus. The image scanning apparatus acquires image data and stores it in local storage memory, and sends a storage result report to a terminal comput... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7420704 | System and method for color gamut inadequacy notification The present disclosure relates to a system and method for color gamut inadequacy notification. In one arrangement, the system and method pertain to accessing imaging data to be printed, identifying colors represented by the imaging data, comparing the identified col... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420707 | Printing specification method and printing specification device A printing specification method and printing specification device for specifying a spot color, which differs from process colors, as a substitution color, when setting the substitution color for a color plate of one of the process colors and performing printing proc... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7397483 | Image data conversion using interpolation In tetrahedral interpolation suitable for data conversion implemented by digital computations, when the unit rectangular hexahedron is a regular hexahedron, no complicated multiplication is required, and the computation volume can be greatly reduced. However, when t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7369271 | Image processing apparatus and its method, and control method An ICC profile includes brief gloss information indicating glossy/matte attribute as attribute information, however, gloss matching cannot be performed with the 2 options. In a case where embedding of glossiness information into the ICC profile is designated, glossi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369274 | Color error diffusion method A color error diffusion method effective between a color image input device operating in one color space and a color image output device operating in another color space. The method includes the steps of (a) preparing a final color palette for use in a practice of v... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365880 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image region discrimination section in an image processing section, a characteristic signal calculation result obtained by hardware is subjected to macro-scoped correction and macro-discrimination by a processor. Further, in the image region discrimination sectio... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362337 | Method and apparatus for adjusting size of image A method for transforming an original image to a new image is provided. The original image includes M rows of original data; the new image includes Q rows of new data. The method first generates a (2i−1)th row and a (2i)th row of intermediate data respectively bas... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352893 | Representing extended color gamut information A computer-readable medium of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that has a data structure stored thereon to represent extended color gamut information for a pixel. The data structure has a number of data fields, where each data field is to store a number ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7321902 | Mechanism for sharing web-based imaging information from a multi-function peripheral The method of the present invention is capable of providing distributed imaging capability to a user of a multi-function peripheral. Document creation, manipulation, editing, and output are provided by the present invention. Document design and image data are associ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319546 | Color management method A method of producing from a first device-dependent image data set, a second image data set matched to a real process, includes, by using inverse gamut mapping, transforming color values from the first image data set into color values of a device-independent color s... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7312894 | Color conversion apparatus A color conversion profile is set in the color conversion table 3, a color converting process is performed on input data, and a conversion result is output to a color adjustment unit 2. The color adjustment unit 2 color-adjusts the output data c... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312800 | Color correction of digital video images using a programmable graphics processing unit A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each frame of each video stream or track is decoded into a buffer and a color profile indicating parameters of the color space of the video source i... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307762 | Image input/output control method and image input/output apparatus In the case in which an image processing mode is a high-speed copy mode in which follow-up control is possible, setting is made to perform “follow-up control” for setting a mode for not compressing an image or a fixed length compression mode for an image read by... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307759 | Method and equipment for automatically performing color/monochrome judging of an original A copier and method for automatically determining whether the original is color or monochrome and generating a corresponding copy. The copier comprises a scanner which generates RGB data from the document, a color/monochrome processor which determines whether the do... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7298527 | Image forming apparatus and its control method, and computer program Input print data can assume one of a RGB color space, CMYK color space, and Gray color space. When graphic arts are principally to be printed, data of these color spaces is converted into CIE Color Space XYZ as a standard color space, and data of the standard color ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7268909 | Document processing method and apparatus According to this invention, a document processing method of documenting image data obtained by double-sided scanning of an original containing a single-sided printed part and a double-sided printed part includes a blank determination step of determining on the basi... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7221475 | Color image processing apparatus The invention relates to a color image processing apparatus and, more particularly, to adjusting means of a color tone and a sharpness. According to the invention, there is provided a color image processing apparatus characterized by having processing means for perf... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218428 | Method of sequencing image data inside memory of optical scanning device An image data sequencing method for a memory unit inside an optical scanning device. The image data sequencing method is particularly suitable for scanning a line of pixels with each pixel comprising a plurality of primary colors. The image data sequencing method in... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209142 | Image display method and an image display apparatus for implementing the method The image display method and apparatus display a monochromatic image with a color display device in which a unit pixel is composed of R, G and B cells and display the monochromatic image having a higher gradation resolution than reproduction performance of each of t... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7187467 | Image supply apparatus, image output apparatus, control apparatus therefor, and image forming apparatus incorporating them An ink jet printer for forming an ink jet printed long strip of cloth includes a design image generation unit, a receiving unit, a generating unit and a synthesizing unit. The design image generation unit generates design image data representing a design image repea... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177049 | Image reconstruction architecture Methods and apparatus for reconstructing digitized images are provided that include an image reconstruction path that receives a digitized image and provides a processed RGB or CMYK image that may be printed or stored in memory. The image reconstruction path is conf... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171045 | System and method for determining a natural color depth of a digital image A system and method for determining a natural color depth of a digital image is described. Color distances between each pair of colors in a color palette stored for a digital color image are determined. A closest neighboring color for each color in the color palette... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170633 | Imaging apparatus In an imaging apparatus such as a digital still camera, a scene is judged with using an image data outputted from an area sensor in a preparation state in which an image displayed on a monitor display serves as a viewfinder, and another image data to be recorded in ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167268 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a receiving section which receives image data over the Internet and temporarily storing it, a printing section which prints the temporarily stored image data, a category defining section which... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158134 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of conducting different manners of resolution conversion processing depending on scanning direction. An image processing apparatus 1 includes: a sub-scanning-directional fi... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7102553 | Signal transmission method and signal transmission device A signal transmission method and a signal transmission device capable of easily transmitting a signal with a small number of signal lines. A data signal of time slot count N+α with bit count N is longitudinal-lateral converted into a data signal of time slot count ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103216 | Color chart and color conversion definition creating method A color chart includes color patches associated with all vertexes of a rectangular parallelepiped defined by a base coloring amount (QCb, QMb, QYb) comprising combinations of minimum coloring amounts QCb, QMb an... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7079285 | Efficient rasterizing sub-system for printers Image content may be generated in high resolution by performing raster operations, and half-toning is then performed on the image content. Due to such a sequence, a substantially consistent image may be generated on different printers irrespective of the degree of h... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075681 | System and method for reducing the data volume of images A system and method for reducing the volume of data necessary to represent an image by utilizing tiling and masking techniques is disclosed. Initially, an image described by raster content having an original number of bits per pixel is provided. The image is divided... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7073090 | Remote data mirroring system having a remote link adapter A primary data storage system is linked to a geographically remote secondary data storage system for automatically maintaining a remote copy of the data in the primary storage. The primary data storage system has a primary cache memory, and the secondary data storag... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058197 | Multi-variable model for identifying crop response zones in a field An computer implemented apparatus and method are disclosed for defining areas of a field in which a crop or other vegetation is grown based on their selective ability to grow such vegetation through a growing season, or some shorter preselected time period. The meth... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055059 | Remote data mirroring Two data storage systems are interconnected by a data link for remote mirroring of data. Each volume of data is configured as local, primary in a remotely mirrored volume pair, or secondary in a remotely mirrored volume pair. Normally, a host computer directly acces... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7042501 | Image processing apparatus There is provided an image processing apparatus comprising a display, a display switching section, a designation section and a red eye correction section, wherein the display switching section switches in such a way that at least a region designated by the designati... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042593 | Method of and device for image processing, and image forming device When the image processing device is a digital multifunction device, at which are provided a facsimile device application, a printer application, and the like in addition to a copier application, or when there are problems with the network environment, image data and... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042603 | Information processing apparatus, image input apparatus, method of controlling image processing apparatus, method of controlling image input apparatus, image input system, and storage medium The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an image input apparatus, a method of controlling the information processing apparatus, a method of controlling the image input apparatus, an image input system, and a storage medium storing progr... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7016091 | Image pickup apparatus, storing method of image data and storage medium thereof In order to realize to improve safety performance of a filing system by satisfying the minimum requirement of protecting the filing system even if a shooting operation is performed in any condition, management information of a file for a shot image is to be priorly ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012715 | Image processing apparatus There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image processing unit for performing image processing on an input image to produce an output image; a storing unit for storing image-related information relating to at least one image processed by the imag... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6996279 | Compressed storage of data items Storing of data items in a memory (31) is provided wherein the data items are divided into successive data pieces of decreasing significance, and the data pieces are stored in respective parts of the memory (31), and when applying a data piece to the m... | 02/07/2006 |
