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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120019841 | DOCUMENT SCANNER A document scanner (10) includes an input tray (20) for holding documents (11); an input image capture device (30) for capturing images of documents in the input tray; an image processor for determining characteristics of documents; and the d... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013952 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING SCANNED IMAGE An image scanning apparatus includes: an image scanning unit that includes plural light emitting elements and a light receiving portion receiving light emitted from the light emitting elements and reflected on a document and scans an image on the document; a light quant... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013953 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS A method for image processing in which an area of a platen on which a document is placed is read and the platen image is processed includes extracting an object included in the platen image, detecting an area of the object and inclination of the area of the object with ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008174 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus comprises: a character information acquisition unit configured to acquire character information included in each of a body region and a caption region; an accumulation unit configured to divide the character information acquired from the bo... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110317224 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS An image processing system includes an image processing apparatus and an information processing apparatus that are connected via a data communication channel. The image processing apparatus includes an execution request unit sending an execution request to request the i... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110299132 | DOCUMENT SCANNING APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY TRANSFERRING IMAGE-PROCESSING PROGRAM A document scanning apparatus for automatically transferring an image-processing program includes an image-capturing assembly, a memory unit, an I/O connection interface and a controlling module. The image-capturing assembly captures an image of an original and generate... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299131 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING POWER SUPPLY CONTROL PROGRAM There is provided an image processing apparatus including: an image scanner that scans in an image of an original, the image scanner including an opening and closing member capable of moving between an open position and a closed position, a closing operation detection u... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292462 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM An image processing apparatus is provided for performing image processing on an image containing a first image and a second image representing a translucent object. The image processing apparatus includes a detector that detects a non-overlapping region in the second im... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292461 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS An image processing apparatus includes a pattern generation unit configured to cause an image forming section to generate a plurality of image patterns that have periodicity unique to the image forming section and are different from each other, a selection unit configur... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110273748 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE An image processing device for every frame of a moving or still image including an uptake device to take the image data of the pixel unit from the image which photographed a subject, a histogram generating device to generate the histogram of the brightness after having ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267646 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive an image and a correction instruction with respect to the image; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a history of image processing performed to the image from the image; an update unit c... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110267658 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS The present invention realizes an image processing apparatus including: a reading section to obtain image data by scanning a document, a document feeding section to deliver a plurality of pages of documents successively to the reading section, a detection section to det... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110261424 | Image processing apparatus and image processing program An image processing apparatus includes: a first image processing unit that carries out first image processing on image data depicting a first image; a first determination unit that determines whether the first image is a chromatic image or an achromatic image; a determi... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255106 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Banding can be prevented and image-quality degradation can be reduced. An image processing apparatus includes first creation means configured to distribute density of image data to a pixel on another scanning line on the basis of a difference between an actual print pos... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110242615 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus comprises an anchor point information extraction unit configured to decide coordinates of anchor points and attributes of the anchor points based on a plurality of predetermined extraction rules and a sequence of coordinate points that expr... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110242616 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus comprises an anchor point candidate information extraction unit configured to decide coordinates of anchor point candidates and attributes of the anchor point candidates based on a plurality of predetermined extraction rules and a sequence ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110228348 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus detects an edge from image data and generates edge data indicating a result of the detection, obtains a variance value of the generated edge data, and determines that the image data is data without print information when the obtained varian... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110216376 | System For And Method Of Providing Enhanced Copy Protection On A Reader Device A system for and method of providing enhanced copy protection on a reader device in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include detecting orientation data that indicates an orientation of a display screen of the reader device with reference to a horizontal surface... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110205598 | IMAGE-READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS An image-reading apparatus includes a gain correction processing portion, and a gain setting control portion including a setting portion that sets a gain condition, the gain setting control portion: repeatedly sets the gain condition in the setting portion at predetermi... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110194154 | Image Processing Apparatus, Method, And Computer Program An overlap determining unit determines whether or not it is difficult to read watermark characters by overlap between the watermark characters of the watermark image and pixels having a pixel value of the scan image equal to or more than a predetermined value using imag... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110194155 | DOCUMENT CAMERA, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DOCUMENT CAMERA, AND PROGRAM A document camera includes: n (n≧2) imagers; a temporal storage that temporarily stores m sets of image data captured by m (1≦m≦n) imagers among the n imagers; an image processor that performs predetermined image processing according to the number of image data se... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110188091 | IMAGE-READER SELECTING PARAMETER In the image-reader, a first reading unit generates the first surface worth of first image data by reading a first surface of an document sheet. The second reading unit generates the second surface worth of second image data by reading a second surface. The process surf... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181919 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM An image reading apparatus of the present invention, which reads an automatically conveyed document at a set reading resolution and outputs image data of the document, comprises an image reading unit configured to output image data with a resolution corresponding to the... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110176179 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY VIEWING, COORDINATING, MANIPULATING AND INTERPRETING THREE-DIMENSIONAL AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL DIGITAL IMAGES OF STRUCTURES FOR PROVIDING TRUE SCALE MEASUREMENTS AND PERMITTING RAPID EMERGENCY INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION The present invention provides a true-scale, coordinate-matched, linked in real-time, dual three-dimensional/two-dimensional visual display/viewer. The display simultaneously shows a 3D digital image and an associated 2D digital image of a selected drawing. The display ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110176154 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM In a recording apparatus in which resolution of a main scan and resolution of a subscan differ, a print character is preferably reproduced. An image processing apparatus for controlling the recording apparatus in which the subscan resolution is lower than the main scan ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110134489 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF An image processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a storage unit for storing image data; a readout unit for reading out the image data from the storage unit, while dividing the image data into a plurality of image data; image processing units for respect... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110134490 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM An image processing apparatus has a capability of displaying a preview image on a display under the control of a controller even in the middle of a process of reading document pages in a binding reading mode in which a large number of document sheets are read by repeate... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110122456 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product An image processing apparatus includes: a memory unit; a read-out image processing unit that performs read-out image processing on input image data and stores the image data on which the image processing has been performed in the memory unit; an output attribute determi... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110122457 | OPTICAL MODULE, AN IMAGE READER AND AN ASSEMBLING METHOD OF AN OPTICAL MODULE An optical module 100 includes an optical path unit 101 including a plurality of reflectors 104 for securing an optical path of reflected light from a manuscript, an image processing unit 102 including a reading device 105 which reads ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110102859 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided, which are useful for faithfully reproducing luster even if a luminance reproduction range of an output apparatus is brighter than the luminance reproduction range of an input apparatus. The image... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102860 | DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING TYPES OF DOCUMENT FILES According to one embodiment, a device for identifying types of document files includes an extraction unit, an evaluation unit, and a document type identification unit. The extraction unit extracts document feature information indicating distinguishing information for a ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102858 | LAYOUT EDITING SYSTEM, LAYOUT EDITING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS A plurality of types of layout data which are used to edit a layout and have laid-out image frames are stored in a memory. An original on an original table is read to generate original image data. The number of originals on the original table is detected. Based on the d... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110085198 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF An image forming apparatus and a document management method thereof. A document management method of an image forming apparatus which includes an image scanner to scan a document and generate a scanned image, the method includes generating the scanned image by scanning ... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110058228 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus is disclosed, including a marking position detection part and a first character recognition part. The marking position detection part detects a marking position with respect to a first sheet based on first image data scanned from the first ... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110051169 | Image Processing Device An image processing device includes an input section to which scan data is input, a text identifying section which identifies whether the scan data is text document-based, an output format identifying section which identifies whether the scan data is ink jet output-base... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110038016 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes: an image processing section including plural image processing groups and including a DR (dynamic reconfigurable) circuit at least in one of the image processing groups and configured to process image d... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038015 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD Another code image is added so that a code image previously embedded in an original document image can be read. An image forming device includes: a generation means configured to use, when a second code image is combined with the original document image including a firs... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110019242 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA TRANSFER METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM An image processing system and others capable of allowing users to store data in a preferable destination folder among destination folders that are not limited, without requiring manual entry of a path to specify a destination folder, are provided. In a mode to transfer... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019245 | IMAGE DEFECT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE DEFECT DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An image defect diagnostic system includes: a memory that stores an image density threshold set for each of partial regions in a test target image being a test target for an image defect and set as a criteria for judging whether or not each of the partial regions has an... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019244 | IMAGE DEFECT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE DEFECT DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An image defect diagnostic system includes: an acquiring unit acquiring image data for a test target image; an image defect detecting unit detecting image defects in the test target image; a coordinate conversion processor performing coordinate conversion processing to ... | 01/27/2011 |
