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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7336405 | Thermal fixing device for controlling the temperature of a heat member to melt toner on a recording sheet A thermal fixing device for fixing toner images onto recording sheets includes a heat member, a pressing member, a temperature sensor, a clock, and a control unit. The control unit performs a toner fixing control and a high-temperature heat-up control. During the to... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7275043 | Image processing system and ordering system The image processing system identifies a subject person corresponding to accompanying information based on consistency between the accompanying information and subject information and carries out image composition associating the accompanying information with a posi... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7263240 | Method, system, and software for improving signal quality using pyramidal decomposition A method, system, and software are disclosed for improving the quality of a signal. A base signal is recursively decomposed for a desired number of pyramid levels. The decomposed signal from the lowest level is modified to generate a preprocessed signal. The preproc... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7248387 | Scanning speed control device and method A control device and a method for controlling scanning speed of a scanner. The control device includes a decision device and a driving device. The decision device further includes an image buffer, an up-down counter and a comparator. The decision device receives the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7153047 | Systematic lenticular lens selection in a digital printing environment Disclosed herein is a method for determining a lenticular lens resolution for use in digital press printing. The method includes determining a digital press machine resolution d, setting a master interlaced image resolution m for a master interlaced image such that ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149035 | Digitally imaged lenticular products incorporating customized elements Disclosed herein is a digitally imaged lenticular product comprising a lenticular lens having an array of lenticules defining a front surface, and a substantially flat back surface located opposite the front surface. The product further includes a digitally output i... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145693 | Image processing apparatus and method In ink-jet printing apparatuses having a monochrome head which is longer than a color head, if a monochrome image is processed as a color image, the printing speed cannot be improved. Accordingly, the color attribute is determined by pixel based on a luminance signa... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7116442 | Image processing apparatus applicable to different copying types of color copying machines To reduce the number of memories, an image processing apparatus includes a color correcting unit for sequentially processing input pixel data, a memory device provided at a preceding stage of the color correcting unit and for storing the pixel data, a region discrim... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7103513 | Method and device for the detection and processing of signals from industrial processes A standard, modularly expandable system is for measuring and analyzing far spread signals from industrial processes consisting of several partial processes in an essentially feedback-free and synchronous manner. Random signals occurring in the partial processes are ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7083340 | Systematic lenticular lens selection in a digital printing environment Disclosed herein is a method and an apparatus for determining a lenticular lens resolution for use in digital press printing. The method and an apparatus consists of determining a digital press machine resolution d, setting a master interlaced image resolution m for... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7083341 | Systematic lenticular lens selection in a digital printing environment Disclosed herein is a method for determining a lenticular lens resolution for use in digital press printing. The method includes determining a digital press machine resolution d, setting a master interlaced image resolution m for a master interlaced image such that ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7027182 | Printing a true-ink reference, and refining gray accuracy, for optimum color calibration in incremental printing Ramps are printed with ink of a particular color, and also nominally in that color but by inks of other colors. A measured actual-ink ramp is a standard to fix the other-colors ramp, and correct other printing in those colors. In one aspect a particular color is gra... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7020344 | Match blur system and method A method for blurring in signal processing, for example, in digital film processing, is performed with digital artifacts. The digital artifacts are derived, such as by scanning, and include a noisy artifact and a less noisy artifact. The artifacts are subdivided int... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016080 | Method and system for improving scanned image detail Methods are provided for generating a dynamic image mask for improving image detail in a digital image. An electronic representation of an image is scanned. A dynamic image mask is generated from the electronic representation of the image. The dynamic image mask has... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6995913 | Digitally imaged lenticular products incorporating customized elements Disclosed herein is a digitally imaged lenticular product comprising a lenticular lens having an array of lenticules defining a front surface, and a substantially flat back surface located opposite the front surface. The product further includes a digitally output i... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6965692 | Method and apparatus for improving the quality of reconstructed information Image processing apparatus and methods according to the present invention are described in which data for each color channel are separately processed, on a pixel by pixel basis, such that the data associated with the primary color channel is filtered less than the c... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6958832 | Control method for document scanning device A document scanning device reads an image on a document while scanning the image, and generates image data based on the image. The document scanning device selects and sets a scanning speed in accordance with a transfer mode used when the document scanning device tr... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6952294 | Method of reading an image, method of forming a color image, device for forming a color image, silver halide color photosensitive material, and a device for processing a photosensitive material The present invention relates to a method of reading an image, which comprises exposing a color photosensitive material having at least three photosensitive layers containing blue-, green- and red-photosensitive silver halide emulsions, respectively, on a transparen... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6943920 | Method, system, and software for signal processing using pyramidal decomposition A method, system, and software are disclosed for improving the quality of a signal. A base signal is recursively decomposed and modified for a desired number of pyramid levels. At each level, the decomposed signal from the previous level is modified to improve one o... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6934054 | Method and apparatus for two-color thermal point of sale (POS) printing A 2-color thermal point of sale (POS) printer includes a converter for converting full color printing commands into a commands for printing in two colors, a primary color and an alternate color. A three color image is possible when using the background color of the ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930600 | Image and audio data processing system An image and audio processing system includes a housing, a storage medium, a non-contact audio storage device installed inside the housing for storing audio data in the storage medium by wireless communication technology, and a print device installed inside the hous... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6916125 | Method for film inspection and development A method of preparing a roll of film for development. The method involves inspecting the film for defects and imperfections as the film is unwound from a magazine. A method of preparing a roll of film for development and developing the film is also disclosed. The de... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6913404 | Film processing solution cartridge and method for developing and digitizing film A digital film processing system and film processing solution cartridge are disclosed. The cartridge comprises a housing and a chamber for storing a film processing fluid. The processing solution may be contained within a flexible bladder within the chamber. The car... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6915021 | Method and system for selective enhancement of image data A method and apparatus for selectively applying image enhancement processing to parts of an image. In one embodiment, spatial processing transformations, such as sharpening for example, are reduced or bypassed for pixels having color code values within a range known... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6910816 | Digital film processing method A method of developing a latent image on a photographic element (such as imagewise exposed photographic film) by absorbing a dye precursor into the film, applying a developer solution to the film to develop the latent image and form a dye in the film, scanning the f... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6909527 | Optical scanner with inclined platen An optical scanner including a housing having a top portion, a bottom portion, a front portion and a rear portion; a platen member forming a portion of the housing top portion, the platen member having a flat upper surface defining a platen plane; a scanner base pro... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6876467 | Printer with automatic density adjusting function and density adjusting method of printer When densities of C, M and Y colors for automatic density adjustment are measured, test patterns of R, G and B colors are printed on TA paper, and a fixing lamp throws lights that have bright line spectrums of R, G and B colors onto the test patterns and amounts of ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6704121 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus It is one objective of the present invention to provide an image forming apparatus that increases the printing stability for a highlighted portion, and that can form a high quality image without causing a barrier due to the application of excessive energy... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6498655 | Self validating printer with ticket voiding and reprint features Methods and apparatus are provided for printing and validating a document, such as a ticket or voucher printed on a substrate such as paper. After the document is printed, at least a portion thereof is read to test a validity criteria. The document is dis... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6348977 | Color-controlled conversion of color data A color data processing apparatus in which a type of received data is discriminated and, based on a discriminated type of the received data, a first process is executed to convert the received data into Y (yellow), M (magenta), C (cyan) and K (black) data... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6339479 | Video processing apparatus for processing pixel for generating high-picture-quality image, method thereof, and video printer to which they are applied A video processing apparatus according to the present invention includes edge detecting means for detecting an edge direction of an image, coefficient selecting means for selecting a coefficient based on the edge direction detected by the edge detecting m... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6268933 | Reconstructing a secondary differential value image, image contour emphasizing based on the reconstructing, and thermal transfer recording based on the contour emphasizing It is an object to provide a reconstructing process method, for a secondary differential value image, being capable of correcting blurring at the contour portion of an original image to form an image having a sharp contour, an image contour emphasizing pr... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6195175 | Method and apparatus for color correction The present invention aims to provide satisfactory color reproduction without causing color mixing when a color image is formed on a direct heat-sensitive color recording medium. To input values of R, G and B, matrix calculation is performed to intensify ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6031629 | Picture quality stabilizer for a color laser printer In the picture quality stabilizer for a color laser printer, changes in the gray level characteristic and the color balance caused by changes in temperature and humidity are compensated in order to stabilize the reproduced image. The apparatus includes a ... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5825985 | Thermal printer and thermal printer head driving system A thermal printer for forming an image on a sheet includes a thermal head having a plurality of linearly arranged thermal elements. A total number of thermal elements to be energized to form the line image is determined. A difference between the total the... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5805780 | Photographing box A photographing box is arranged to reduce a time taken from photographing an object to printing the image of the object. The photographing box is intended to be manufactured at low cost and more easily maintained. The photographing box includes a photogra... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5805314 | Color image forming apparatus separately correcting each color component image A color image forming apparatus separately corrects an intensity of each of color component images used for forming a multicolor image. The multicolor image is formed by superimposing a plurality of color component images on a printing paper. Each of the ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5805312 | Thermographical image copier system with real time copying and variable read and record speeds An image copying system is disclosed which has a thermal head energized at a strobe current supply time rate corresponding to a current head temperature according to a preset strobe current supply time rate control characteristics. In copying operation at... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5758038 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a plurality of image forming units for forming, on an image receiving member such as a transfer sheet, toner images of a plurality of different colors such as magenta, cyan, yellow and black. Each of the image forming units ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5706098 | System for adjusting color intensity of neighboring pixels A method of printing an image onto a substrate includes the steps of determining a difference in intended color intensity between a first pixel and a second pixel; adjusting the intended color intensity of the second pixel based on the determined differen... | 01/06/1998 |
