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| 8184331 | Printing device and method therefor A printing device includes a receiving unit receiving image data, a printing unit transferring printing agent onto a sheet so as to form an image according to the image data received, a printing ratio determining unit determining, based upon the image data, a printi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179559 | Image forming apparatus with a substitute recording medium for an unavailable recording medium and method thereof Methods and apparatuses for forming images on recording media of different sizes are provided. The image forming procedure may include reading setting information which includes the size of a substitute recording medium for each user from a memory and, when the size... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179560 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus is provided for realizing a higher speed print-out of a scan image. It is determined whether an input data type stored in metadata of document data is PDL or not (S1609). If the input data type is “full-page image”, page data... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174725 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus comprises a signal generator generating a clock signal associated with image forming in a main-scanning direction, an image forming unit including a write unit performing the image forming in the main-scanning direction on a paper relative... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174726 | Printing device, printing method, print setting determination device, and computer program There is provided a printing device including a face detection unit for detecting a face area including a face of a person in an image to be a target for printing, and a print setting determination unit for determining a setting of a size of a print image used for a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169656 | Image processing devices and methods for resizing an original image therefor The present invention provides an image processing device for processing an original image having a first number of horizontal lines parallel to one another. Each of the first number of horizontal lines includes a second number of pixels. The image processing device... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164784 | Apparatus and method for setting printing options using preview image An apparatus and method are provided for setting a printing option using a preview image. Setting the printing option includes an image preview unit displaying a preview image corresponding to printing data and enabling the preview image to be manipulated for settin... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159712 | Imposition enhancements to support documents with fold-out pages A sheet resizing module operating in cooperation with an automatic imposition module provides for the automatic imposition of fold out sheets using an imposition template tailored for regular sized sheets. The imposition module can impose the pages of a document as ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149453 | Print data-editing apparatus and print data-editing program stored in computer readable medium When a printing apparatus is connected to a personal computer, an editing program for editing an object to be printed by the printing apparatus is actuated. The printing apparatus connected is set as a printing apparatus to be used, and a layout-editing screen is di... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130409 | Image forming apparatus The image forming apparatus includes image forming device for forming an image, switching device for switching resolution of an image formed by the image forming device, processing device for performing stabilization processing for stabilizing quality of the image f... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130410 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image forming system and recording medium readable by a computer The image processing apparatus executes a zoom process to an image data depending on a received zoom level, selects a dither matrix from a plurality of dither matrices each having a different resolution. The image processing apparatus selects a dither matrix that ha... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125681 | Image forming apparatus and thumbnail image generating method Disclosed is an image forming apparatus 100, comprising: an image processing section 10 to perform image processing for printing for CMYK image data which is obtained by a color conversion for the printing; a thumbnail image generating section 11 | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125680 | Image processing apparatus and control method thereof An image processing apparatus. First reducing means generates a first reduced size image by reducing an original image. Second reducing means generates a second reduced size image having a size larger than that of the first reduced size image and smaller than that o... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120810 | Method and system for adjusting scanned images A system for adjusting scanned images for printing. In response to scanning one or more objects, one or more bounding boxes are calculated for the scanned image. The scanned image is cropped to a size of the one or more bounding boxes. The cropped image is rotated t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115963 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a display request for displaying a preview image of gradation-processed image data, and a preview magnification indicative of a display magnification of the preview image. An image processing unit... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8098398 | Printing system, printing apparatus, and preview method for printing system A printing system configured to set a segment unit size serving as a unit of a display area for displaying, as images, a list of pages which form the document; acquire a width and a height of each page image from the document data; calculate, when a value of a ratio... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8085431 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and recording medium An image processing apparatus for performing image reduction correction on target image data corresponding to pixels, includes a deletion position specifying unit configured to specify, as deletion positions of deletion pixels in the target image data, predetermined... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085430 | Printer and tape printer A printer includes: an area judging unit which judges whether a character printing area necessary for standard printing of an image corresponding to the character data on the printing material exceeds a definite length printing area; a printing data processing unit ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081342 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and print control program An information processing apparatus that can operate under the control of an operating system configured to allow changing an enlargement rate in units of job and can generate print data corresponding to a plurality of pages to be printed by a printing apparatus. A ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8064094 | Method and apparatus for performing image size adjustment A position deciding unit decides a correction target position in the image data from a position of a reference pixel in the image data based on size-adjustment proportion and a correcting unit performs correction with respect to the correction target position. A siz... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064095 | Method of generating ink amount data, device for generating ink amount data, and program thereof Provided is a method of generating ink amount data which is the used amounts of inks of respective colors when an image is printed, by analyzing image data of the image, the method including: extracting a character area, of which a saturation value is equal to or le... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059306 | System and method for controlling print device A method, program product, and system for controlling a print device which helps minimizing effects which a failure of a plug-in module for adding a function of a printer driver may cause to the printer driver body and other plug-in modules The print device control ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054499 | Resolution doubling for printer apparatus A system includes a first memory portion storing image data and a second memory portion storing a lookup table having image resolution conversion data. Conversion logic is configured to access the image resolution conversion data and convert the image data, which ha... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049922 | Image forming apparatus and printing method for creating a combined image An image forming apparatus includes: an image data processing unit that extracts one image area for each page from bitmap images for a continuous even number of pages of an identical sheet size and creates a combined image obtained by combining these image areas; an... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045215 | Printer object list resolutions A printer contains a list of objects to be printed under control of a controller. Different resolutions for the objects are included in the list of objects to be printed. In one embodiment, each item has an associated resolution indicating a minimum resolution for p... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045217 | Printing system and printing apparatus A printer receives changes to printing conditions by a user when executing reprinting. The printer selects whether to execute reprinting based on application data held in a host computer, or execute reprinting based on printing data held in the printer. If the print... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045216 | Media storage apparatus and image forming apparatus configured to operate with regular-sized recording media and irregular-sized recording media A media storage apparatus includes a media storing body that stores recording media, a guide member slidably provided in the media storing body for guiding the recording media, a first positioning portion that positions the guide member at a predetermined position w... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8027057 | Print control device and recording medium containing printer driver for adjusting print area based on converted file format A print control device is capable of processing print job data having a first file format and print job data having a second file format which is different from the first file format. The print control device includes a judging unit configured to judge whether the p... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027056 | Image processing apparatus and control method thereof An image area of a main scanning line is segmented into a plurality of regions, with a first image being formed that has a first number of pixels in each of the plurality of regions, and a second image being formed that has a second number of pixels in each of the p... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7999969 | Imaging device, printing system, printing device, image printing method, and storage medium having stored thereon program controlling the image printing method In the case of printing while a digital camera is directly connected to a printer, it has been impossible to determine to what extent image blurring affects a print image. In an imaging device, a detection section (17A) detects blurring. An image blurring com... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990568 | Apparatus and method for setting printing options using preview image An apparatus and method are provided for setting a printing option using a preview image. Setting the printing option includes an image preview unit displaying a preview image corresponding to printing data and enabling the preview image to be manipulated for settin... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990569 | Speeding up remote copy operation by transmitting resolution-dependent print data via network if processing apparatus and output apparatus information match An image processing apparatus includes a resolution-independent data generation unit which generates resolution-independent data, which does not depend on a resolution, from input data, a resolution-dependent data generation unit which generates resolution-dependent... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7965409 | Methods and systems for rendering and printing reverse fine features A method and system are proposed in which a moving window based operator is applied to a page of a PDL document that has been decomposed, and the objects within the page flattened and rasterized. The window moves along the raster scan line, and processes rasterized ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961347 | Hybrid printer and scan image copying method When using image scanners to capture images of originals and using printers to print same, four-sided borderless copying is enabled such that margins do not appear on printouts. An image scanner might capture an image corresponding to scan region 263 which mi... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7952748 | Display device output adjustment system and method A display device output adjustment system comprises an electronic device having a visual adjustment module configured to automatically adjust a size of visual content displayed on a display device coupled to the electronic device based on a comparison between at lea... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7952749 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and printing system An apparatus capable processing form data including a variable region acquires image data to be inserted into the variable region of the form data. The apparatus calculates a scaling rate between the acquired image data prior to being scaled for insertion into the v... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7944581 | Imposition systems, methods and drivers for printer products Imposition system and drivers for printer products prepare a document for printing by receiving an electronic document to be printed, determining a smallest font size of the text of at least a portion of the document; determining a scale factor for at least one port... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7929175 | Image printing apparatus and method of controlling the same This invention relates an image printing apparatus capable of copying by executing enlargement/reduction (E/R) processing optimum to an instructed mode. According to the apparatus, a copy mode and an enlargement rate are input. The use priority order of each enlarge... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7916340 | Print system, an image supply apparatus and control methods thereof A print system in which an image supply apparatus and a print apparatus directly communicate with each other, and the print apparatus prints an image based on image data supplied from the image supply apparatus, the image supply apparatus comprises a designating uni... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916339 | Print layout and apparatus and method This invention relates to a technique that prevents an image from falling outside a given range when a printer is controlled to form an image on an arbitrary medium while assuring a margin of a predetermined amount. A host computer shifts an image by only a partial ... | 03/29/2011 |
