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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085451 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes: (i) a capturing device for capturing an original image of a source document; (ii) a moving device for moving one of the capturing device and the source document relative to the other; (iii) a first region processor for causing th... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7916368 | Image processing device and method for maintaining the color shade of low-chroma color regions of an image In an image processing device, from an object image, an area reproduced by K component only and having at least a prescribed density is extracted as a gray area to be replaced, and a color of an area neighboring the gray area is extracted. When the neighboring area ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7791778 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus comprises a boundary line position storage section storing position information on boundary lines for dividing an image according to an image data unit into regions; a position information changing section to change the position informa... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7782508 | Printing medium separation apparatus, printing medium separation program, storage medium storing the program, printing medium seperation method, printing device, printing device control program, storage medium storing the program, and printing device control method A printing medium separation apparatus, including: a density information extraction unit that extracts density information about a predetermined printing area of a printing medium for use to print an image; an area partition unit that partitions the printing area in... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7649659 | Image processing apparatus and method for using mark detection to combine multiple images present on the front and rear surfaces of a medium An image processing apparatus includes an image reading unit 3 that reads a front side image and a rear side image from a front side and a rear side of a medium, respectively, a mark detecting unit 42 that detects a combination instruction mark present... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646517 | Image processing system and image processing method An image forming system is provided and includes an access unit, a reductive color processing unit, an order sheet print control unit, a composition unit, and a composite print control unit. The access unit accesses a user image stored in a recording medium, the pro... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7626743 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program for rendering pixels transparent in circumscribed areas An improved image processing technology capable of obtaining a synthesized image file having high reproducibility without causing missing image parts due to partial or complete overlap among extracted areas when a document image file is created via synthesis of char... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7580169 | Image processing apparatus and its method It is desired to easily and effectively correct hue and saturation in a predetermined region, for an image which cannot be desirably corrected by conversion of the brightness or colors of the entire image. To this end, an image is loaded onto a RAM, and the contrast... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7446914 | Image processing apparatus An image processing section receives a region “each bitmap data and region attribute (character region, etc.)” from an image separation section, subjects each bitmap to processes for binarization, compression, OCR, etc., and outputs post-processing “each image... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7436408 | Computer program for generating pictures First and second areas are designated in a source picture. A start picture is generated from a portion of the source picture which extends in the first area. An end picture is generated from a portion of the source picture which extends in the second area. At least ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424147 | Method and system for image border color selection An exemplary method for selecting a color of a border surrounding an image, includes segmenting the image into regions, selecting a region not containing any color that is present at an outer edge of the image in an amount exceeding a threshold value, and selecting ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7392476 | Image printing system, image printing method, and image printing program The image printing system of the present invention includes an image editing device that carries out editing and printing of images; a link processing device that allows obtaining a desired image by linking to a WWW server that provides the image to be edited and pr... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391917 | Image processing method Stored digital data is searched for on the basis of an input image, difference information is extracted by comparing the retrieved digital data and the input image, and the difference information is composited to the digital data. Digital data generated by compositi... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389003 | Image processing system and image processing method An image processing system of the present invention includes a partial enlarge unit for enlarging a part of an image so as to create an enlarged partial image, a display unit for displaying the image and the enlarged partial image created by the partial enlarge unit... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386242 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus of the present invention predicts the occurrence of an image elongation, in other words, predicts that an image transferred is lengthened on a sheet due to slipping of the sheet with respect to a photoreceptor at a transfer nip portion. If... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7369285 | Method of processing image An attentional portion to be corrected in gradation of an image is specified, and a gradation corrective function with respect to a density of the specified attentional portion is generated. Preset gradation conversion characteristics are corrected with the gradatio... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365783 | Image pickup apparatus which stores initial defect data concerning image pickup device and data on later developed defects An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging element, an imaging optical system configured to input an image of an object to the imaging element, a non-volatile memory part for storing defect data concerning the imaging element, and includes a first memory area storing... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362470 | Color image processing apparatus A color image processing apparatus uses a layout analysis section, a character/background color extraction section, an input image character/background color difference calculation section, an output image character/background color difference estimation section and... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362455 | Processing scanned pages Systems and methods of processing scanned pages are described. In one aspect, the invention features a method of processing a sequence of scanned pages of a document in accordance with which, page number indicators are extracted from scanned pages of the document. A... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359100 | Image correction method, program, and apparatus An image correction method of this invention includes a step of identifying a first pixel that satisfies one of predetermined conditions as to a pixel level, which are set for each color component, among pixels included in a specific image; a step of identifying a s... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359083 | Excluding unwanted pages in a printing system job A method operative to automatically exclude unwanted or wasteful portions of a printing system job includes steps for, describing an unwanted portion of the job, and locating instances of the described portion within the job. For example, blank pages are located wit... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352490 | Method and system for generating contone encoded binary print data streams A method and system to convert an electronic image file described in a page description language containing both contone and non-contone image objects to an intermediate binary format image. The intermediate format image separately encodes the contone and non-conton... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349577 | Image processing method and image processing system This invention provides an image processing method which allows easy re-use of image information that is stored to minimize deterioration of image quality and the storage capacity. Storage means is searched for original digital data corresponding to each input image... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349128 | Image scanner and peak detecting processing method of image scanner A sheet image scanner of the present invention has plural image sensors to output electric signals by detecting optical image data that are obtained by applying a light from a light source to documents, amplifiers to amplify outputs from the plural image sensors, an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345691 | Method of image processing and electronic device utilizing the same A method of image processing using neural networks. Images to be processed and displayed are received. Each image is divided into sections, each comprising pixels represented by color values. A neural network training procedure is executed for the sections to obtain... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343052 | End-user-navigable set of zoomed-in images derived from a high-resolution master image The invention relates generally to improvements in systems used in the development (“authoring”) of interactive visual media. More particularly, the invention relates to (a) the automatic or semi-automatic generation of a set of files representing “zoomed-in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343050 | Image synthesizing apparatus, image synthesizing method and a computer readable recording medium having recorded a program Disclosed is an image synthesizing apparatus which extracts plural images of different magnification ratios from a single piece of image data and combines those images to provide a moving image equivalent to a moving image zoomed up in moving image pickup. In record... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339699 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a first sensor having a plurality of reading elements arranged in the primary scanning direction, a second sensor disposed in parallel with the first sensor and by a predetermined lines in the secondary scanning direction, an i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336820 | Method and apparatus for rapid shading in a raster image processor Methods of mapping the shading dictionary parameters provided by a postscript language interpreter into device space coordinates and performing shading in the device space is disclosed. For radial shading, the shading transformation matrix representing the coordinat... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324246 | Apparatus and method for image processing There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image processing unit for executing image processing based on image data of an image; a region extracting unit for extracting a main subject region corresponding to a main subject in said image for the ima... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321450 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and recording medium According to an image processing method for performing color processing in accordance with a plurality of image objects, image data representing the plurality of image objects is input. The relationship between the plurality of image objects is analyzed. The plurali... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317563 | Printing method and system for making a print from a photo picture frame and a graphic image written by a user An image of a picture frame photographed on a photo film is displayed on a screen of an image input device, or is printed out as a hard copy. A graphic image is written by a user in the image of the picture frame, and graphic data of the graphic image is detected fr... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315389 | Electronic document assembly, proofing and printing system The present invention is for a system that allows images to be managed and manipulated on a server by using a web browser. Images may be scanned, printed, faxed, copied, viewed, merged, edited or electronically manipulated across a network, such as the Internet or a... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315399 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An input section performs a color conversion process, etc. for image data from a color scanner section. A discrimination section generates a discrimination signal representative of “character”, “non-character”, etc. on the basis of an image signal from the i... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313275 | Method of separating text and graphs in digital image data A method of separating text and graphs in digital image data is used to separate digital image data into graph data and text data. According to a default separating parameter, the digital image data are partitioned into several operating matrices. One then sets a de... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307766 | Black and white image detection A method and apparatus for classifying an input image as black and white or color is described. The method calculates a first ratio of a color pixel portion to a total pixel portion in the input image. Next, the method calculates a second ratio of the color pixel po... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302109 | Method and system for image processing for structured light profiling of a part An image processing method for structured light profiling includes sampling an image of a structured light pattern to obtain an intensity distribution, selecting a number of sets of sampled points from the intensity distribution. Each of the respective sets includes... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298929 | Image interpolation method and apparatus therefor An image interpolation method and apparatus by which to quickly generate and display motion pictures using a small amount of data. An image input unit inputs a first image and a second image. A matching processor computes a pixel matching between those images so tha... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295341 | System for processing monochrome and full-color digital image data In a system for processing full-color image data, such as within a digital color printer or copier, a four-channel architecture is used. Three of the channels handle image data relating to primary color planes, such as CMY. In the other channel, values relating to t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292371 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program recording medium, color adjustment method, color adjustment device, and color adjustment control program recording medium An image processing apparatus inputs photographic image data containing dot-matrix pixels and converts the input pixels according to predetermined correspondence relationship information, so as to produce processed image data. A correspondence relationship holding u... | 11/06/2007 |
