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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111425 | Image processing method and image forming device An image processing method comprises: a step of acquiring recording characteristic information of the recording elements; a step of obtaining inconsistent density correction information from the recording characteristic information acquired in the characteristic inf... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111424 | Color processing apparatus and control method thereof The number of color patches is reduced to attain high-precision color estimation. Hence, the colorimetric values of a plurality of color patches of at least one primary color output by an output device are input. Based on the colorimetric value of first color patche... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111423 | Image processing device and image processing method A converting unit converts a first color signal into a second color signal and a third color signal. A first correcting unit corrects a magnitude relation between hue angles of the third color signal such that a magnitude relation between hue angles of the second co... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107124 | Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus, an image forming portion forms an image on a rotator. A first designating portion determines a first estimated phase point based on a base time point, and designate, as a designated parameter, a correction parameter corresponding to sa... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107125 | Method of generating printing color profiles for color managed reproduction of color prints with transparent layer The invention relates to a method of generating a printing color profile for printing a printing image with a digital color printing machine, in particular a multi-color printing machine, preferably an electrophotographically operating printing machine. A transparen... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107126 | Document management apparatus and method applying print settings responsive to dragging and dropping document icon A document management apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a notification indicating that an icon for a first document has been drag-and-dropped onto an icon for a second document via a display screen, and an application unit configured to apply... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107127 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method An image forming apparatus has a calibration mode in which a calibration image is formed on a print medium to correct image forming conditions. The image forming apparatus detects print medium information to determine, on the basis of the print medium information, w... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107123 | Tone correction apparatus, mobile terminal, image capturing apparatus, mobile phone, tone correction method and program for improve local contrast in bright and dark regions The present invention relates to a technique for correcting tones of a digitized image, for use in a mobile terminal or the like. The use of a conventional image tone correction technique to backlight correction imposes a limit on improvement in local contrast in a ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102565 | Image forming apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium An image forming apparatus is provided for performing image formation by developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing member using a recording material. The apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a color image to be formed, a spe... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102568 | System for creating garments using camera and encoded card A garment creation system includes a card, a camera and a processing system. The has printed thereon a depiction of a garment and encoded information. The encoded information carries instructions for generating garments pieces corresponding to the garment and manipu... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102567 | Image forming apparatus and method calculating a deviation between a) a representative point of threshold information I) nearest to the coordinate of a pixel of interest or II) in dither space nearest to the address coordinate of the pixel of interest in dither space, and b) the address coordinate in dither space corresponding to a pixel coordinate of an integer in pixel space or a pixel coordinate of an integer in pixel space nearest to the representative point An image processing apparatus makes for making the halftone processing that can suppress a periodic pattern by periodically changing the correction amount while suppressing a dispersion in the area of each dot at a low computation cost. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102564 | Method and system for color correction using both spatial correction and printer calibration techniques A system using a spatial correction to improve the result of a printer calibration and correction is described. More particularly, in one form, a spatial correction may be used to pre-condition a printer for an improved color calibration. In another form, spatial co... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102566 | Image processing apparatus, method, product for adjusting output profile used for color matching in output devices An image processing apparatus is provided that can adjust an output profile used for color matching in output devices. The image processing apparatus comprises: a unit to convert a target value of a device-independent color space into a value of a device-dependent c... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098400 | Gamut mapping in spectral space based on an objective function Mapping spectral colors in an Interim Connection Space (ICS) of a full spectral space based on an objective function is provided. A spectral color value in the ICS is accessed, and a spectral gamut boundary of the destination gamut is accessed. The spectral color va... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098401 | Method and apparatus for printing that considers an undesirable optical density printing range Aspects of the disclosure provide a printing method that can utilize a lightly pigmented toner along with a darkly pigmented toner to improve the image quality. The method can include receiving a dataset corresponding to a printing of a printing system using a darkl... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8089657 | Device, program and method for calibration of an image presenting system A calibration device comprises a relative-value correction unit that performs a normalization for the measured output value based on a possible range of a measured output value and a normalization for a desired output value corresponding to the measured output value... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089656 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes an input control unit that receives an input of image data and a first image-processing unit that performs first image processing on image data received from an image reading unit thereby obtaining first-processed image data. A... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089659 | 4+ color management for gamut extension using a virtual CMYK methodology 4+ color management sequentially processes four colors at a time from among the 4+ colors to leverage solution capability using a 4-color management tools. In methods and apparatus for processing 4+ colors, received information of 4+ colors may be processed in a fir... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089658 | Image forming device and method for controlling toner temperature on photoreceptor when a toner image is exposed to light The present invention provides an image forming device using a toner that maintains a color-generation state or non-color-generation state owing to color-generation information provided by light, comprising: an image forming unit comprising a developing unit includi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085434 | Printer characterization for UV encryption applications The appearance of a color print viewed under UV illumination is predicted using a target comprising color patches each printed using a known coverage of printer colorant(s). In one case, the target is illuminated using a UV light source and an electronic image of th... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085435 | Adaptive color transform to control color inconstancy A method for selecting the level of color inconstancy of an output image produced on a digital color printer having a neutral ink and a plurality of color inks is disclosed. The method includes analyzing the distribution of input colors present in the input digital ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085433 | Variable/personalized colorization printing using tone reproduction curves Disclosed herein is a method wherein each pixel is tagged with a special VI (Variable Information) flag, which indicates the color of the pixel is variable or fixed. When the document gets created during raster image processing (“ripping”), the output CMYK of th... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085436 | Digital printing using similar colorants A method for printing an input digital image using a digital printer having a set of colorants with substantially the same color but different densities, including a sequence of node points where each of the two or more colorants are either at their maximum or minim... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081344 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program An image processing apparatus implements appropriate image processing on image data stored in a storage unit of the image processing apparatus easily and efficiently, and distributes the image data to an external apparatus. An image format conversion unit implements... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081343 | Image forming system and computer readable medium storing image forming program An image forming system includes: a resource information storage unit that previously stores resource information to be combined with input print information; a first setting unit that sets an image characteristic of the resource information stored in the resource i... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077352 | GAMUT aim and GAMUT mapping method for spatially varying color lookup tables An image processing apparatus, program product, and method determine an achievable gamut achievable by the imaging engine or engines for all spatial locations of an output image, or all utilized print engines. A reference gamut is calculated which is any gamut conta... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077353 | Color conversion method, color conversion table created by the color conversion method, image processing apparatus, and color conversion program There is provided a color conversion method. The method includes: a black correction step of converting the first black corresponding to the first color data having a tone value of 0 to the second black corresponding to the second color data having a tone value of 0... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077351 | Image forming apparatus and method using density test patterns to adjust process parameters and subsequently update gradation correction data An image forming apparatus that forms a color image includes: a sensor that detects a density of an image formed on the transfer body; a density adjusting unit that forms a density test pattern on a transfer body and that adjusts process parameters such that a densi... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077354 | Print control program, print control apparatus, and print control method According to the present invention, a print control apparatus for displaying a print preview, comprises the units adapted to: spool print data created by application; issue a rendering instruction of the spooled print data to a graphic engine together with output in... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077350 | Device and method for dispensing white ink A hand-held printer includes an image processing module configured to process image data, an image sensor configured to provide an indicator representative of a print medium to the image processing module, a print module configured to receive the processed image dat... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077348 | Information processing apparatus and its method therefore for printing an image with a first combination of process colors materials and a second combination of the process color materials and a spot color materials There is known a technique of inputting the contents of image data and the use purpose of a print material and automatically selecting a combination of color materials appropriate for them. However, it cannot be confirmed before printing whether improvement of image... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077349 | Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium storing image processing program An image processing apparatus includes an image data input unit, a density variation detection unit and a position/size detection unit. The image data input unit inputs image data containing original image data obtained by reading an original. The density variation ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072645 | Image processing method and apparatus executing color correction based on color domain specified by user and determined relative to image source In an image processing method, a color corresponding to an input color image signal represented by an arbitrary RGB color space is detected and a requested color correction process is executed. A color domain according to property of the RGB color space is determine... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072646 | Apparatus and method for color control of clear coated images on media An apparatus (100) and method (200) that controls color of a clear coated image on media is disclosed. The apparatus may include a controller (110) configured to control operations of the apparatus. The apparatus may include a memory (120... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072647 | Color conversion apparatus and method A color conversion apparatus receives first image data including first red-green-blue color data in which the possible values of the red, green, and blue components extend beyond the range from 0% to 100%. The first color data are analyzed into first hue region data... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068256 | Hypochromatic imaging Color management constraints on the use of selected hypocolorant(s) and a black colorant in the rendering of a given pixel reduce ink or toner usage and/or reduce pressure on an ink limit. Additionally, the enforcement of this mutual exclusivity between the black an... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068257 | Color printing reducing artifacts and banding by rendering black dots, replacing dots with process black, and adding non-black dots for different subsets of black dots A method of printing comprising setting a pixel black value of K for an ink limit and identifying each of black dots of a first subset of black dots having pixel black value K greater than the ink limit, and pixel color value of cyan, magenta, and yellow equal to ze... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068255 | Gamut mapping spectral content to reduce perceptible differences in color appearance Various embodiments provide for gamut mapping spectral content. Source appearance content is created from source spectral data corresponding to a source color image. The source appearance content is mapped to an appearance delta using a gamut mapping algorithm. Dest... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064100 | Watermark encoding and detection using narrow band illumination A system is employed to reveal a watermark in a document. A watermark generator is utilized to select the placement and at least one colorant combination of an image and at least one colorant combination for a watermark on a document, where the at least one colorant... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064101 | White region identification to accelerate image processing for copies Provided herein is a method for accelerating the production of a standalone copy of a document by a peripheral device. The invention employs a white space map of the document to be copied. The map is generated by the ASIC chip, preferably at an early stage in the pr... | 11/22/2011 |
