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...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189246 | Image forming system and method for forming a color image on recording medium and for forming a transparent image overlapping the color image on a recording medium An image forming system includes: an obtaining unit that obtains image information including a grey-level value of a pixel; a modifying unit that modifies the grey-level value of the pixel included in the image information obtained by the obtaining unit; a color ima... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8107142 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program product for executing the method An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus stores image data read by a document reading section and image data received from an external device. An image data synthesizing unit synthesizes first image data read by the document reading... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102579 | Image processing apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, program and storage medium During a display of a slideshow of a composite image comprising a plurality of images, a user operates a print bookmark, resulting in composite images and individual images that can be printed being set and stored as print candidate images. By displaying, in a list,... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8049940 | Reprint function for mailpiece inserters A method is provided for reprinting damaged mailpieces for use in a mailpiece inserter. The method comprising the steps of producing an object-oriented data file of the mailpiece content material including a scan code and storing the object-oriented data files in a ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045243 | Method, apparatus, and program for generating synthesized images Synthesized images having unpredictable appearances are obtained when generating the synthesized images by arranging a plurality of images in predetermined formats. A monotone image generating section generates a plurality of monotone images, by converting each of a... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8018635 | Information recording system and method, information reproducing system and method, information recording and reproducing system, manuscript data processing apparatus, reproduction data processing apparatus, storage medium storing manuscript data processing program thereon, and storage medium storing reproduction data processing program thereon An information recording system includes an image generating unit that generates, from input manuscript data, image data of the manuscript; a characteristic data extracting unit that extracts, from the image data, characteristic data indicating a characteristic of t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7952775 | Gray scale image cleaning system and method A gray scale image cleaning algorithm for improved check code line OCR. An image processing system for processing a gray scale image is provided that includes: a system for generating a first thresholded black white image from the gray scale image; a system for gene... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7933054 | Image processing system and image processing apparatus An image processing system is disclosed that is configured to input color image data, generate color image data identification information identifying the color image data, store the color image data identification information in association with the color image dat... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7903307 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus An image processing method and image processing apparatus which can execute vector conversion processing by appropriately dividing a clipart image including gradation into regions are provided. To this end, a color document image including a clipart image having an ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7884982 | Imaging apparatus and image data conversion method An imaging apparatus capable of performing image conversion such as white balance with a simple operation to obtain image data suited to user's preference, includes an imaging section, an image divider, a calculator, and an image converter. The imaging section image... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7872786 | Image display apparatus, image display method and program The invention provides an image display apparatus that includes a display image creation unit capable of creating a display image that has a plurality of objects superposed on each other; a image display unit capable of displaying the display image created by the di... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7847990 | Method, system, and apparatus for composite printing, and computer usable medium therefor There is provided a method to print a composite image, by using a data processing apparatus, capable of generating first data, and an image forming apparatus, capable of generating second data and forming the composite image. The method includes providing one of a p... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7808686 | Picture editor It is intended to provide a picture editor which displays the color pictorial data matching designated pictorial information, according to pictorial information code of the analyzed color pictorial data of a plurality of color pictures added to the color pictorial d... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7710621 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming method and computer-readable medium Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a communication section connected to an information management apparatus to manage a data with a correspondence of the data to the management information and an input apparatus to accept a manuscript information, to... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7701626 | Image print system for printing a picture from an additional information affixed image file An image print system for printing a picture from an image file having additional information, which enables high-quality image printing to be achieved using various types of image data and their additional information. Image data obtained by taking subjects are sen... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7525704 | System for providing depth discrimination of source images encoded in a rendered composite image A system for enabling depth perception of image content in a rendered composite image, wherein illuminant/colorant depth discrimination encoding provides encoding of first and second source images in a composite image, for the purposes of subsequent illuminant/color... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7443548 | Systems and methods for creating a single electronic scanned job from multiple scanned documents This invention provides systems and methods that use a meta job description that combines a number of scan jobs into a single combined job and use a meta job description that incorporates the scan parameters for a plurality of scan. Scanning documents with a meta jo... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443535 | Misalignment correction pattern formation method and misalignment correction method A misalignment correction method for forming a plurality of color images on a transfer belt to form a multi-color image and correcting a misalignment of each color using a detection sensor, including forming a patch by superposing a reference pattern as a last color... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443533 | Image composition systems and methods An image composition system. The image composition system comprises an image detection unit and an image composition unit. The image detection unit detects marked parts in low dynamic range images. The low dynamic range images are images of the same scene taken at d... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443540 | Electro-optical device, method of driving the same, data line driving circuit, signal processing circuit, and electronic apparatus A signal processing unit that generates data signals for controlling gray-scale levels of electro-optical elements includes a first D/A conversion unit that generates gray-scale signals from gray-scale data for designating the gray-scale levels of the electro-optica... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439940 | Passive virtual reality A method and apparatus for providing, in response to image signals originating in an object space, mixed image signals for providing nonuniform resolution images for stimulating simulated active percepts for passive perception by a viewer in an image space. The imag... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433072 | Print controller, print control method and computer program A print controller for making a print device print in such a manner that a grouping for each record included in printed matter can be easily recognized is provided. A print control program stored on computer readable storage media for outputting a business form by s... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423671 | Image pickup apparatus and photographing method with image angle correction for combining image data Two sets of image data are combined into one set of image data producing no unnatural feeling with a simple procedure. A direction for each set of image data is designated on a touch panel (26). The directions of the image data are compared, and a tilt of one... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420713 | Color printing apparatus configured to superpose specified pattern on image A color printing apparatus includes an image memory that stores input image data, an image data region extracting device that extracts an image data existing region in the image memory, a pattern data superposing device that superposes specified pattern data only on... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7397501 | Digital camera with viewfinder designed for improved depth of field photographing The present invention aims at depth or field improvements or digital cameras, where differently-focused images of a scene, to be photographed, are exposed. A final image is produced from these primary-shots, where depth of field-limitations related to classic photo-... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394578 | Facsimile device reading lines of image data divisively in a sub-scanning direction This facsimile device comprises inputting means for inputting image data of a subject copy having a width in a main scanning direction larger than an A3-size width, reading means for divisively reading lines of the image data in a sub-scanning direction by dividing ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7379205 | System and method for embedding and extracting key information In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method for embedding key information into a printed document is disclosed. The method comprises creating a first section comprising a first ink having a first color under white light; and creating a second section... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7366360 | Image synthesization method An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359087 | Print control apparatus and program An print control apparatus for printing a reproduction checking image in colors. In a print control apparatus 1 that has a printing device 6 to print a document, a CPU 2 combines a remaining pattern image composed of dots larger than a minimum d... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355744 | Image processing method for superimposing high-resolution character data on low-resolution image data 600 dpi binary character shape data is created from 600 dpi character data inputted by a PC and written sequentially to a memory. The 600 dpi character data inputted from the PC and 300 dpi image data are stored as 300 dpi 8-bit graphics data. Next, 600 dpi 8-bit mu... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7349119 | Image storage and control device for camera to generate synthesized image with wide dynamic range The invention is an image pickup apparatus comprising an LE-SE buffer for storing multiple images with different exposure amounts that have been taken with a CCD, an SL synthesizing circuit for performing Super Latitude (SL) processing for the multiple images to gen... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7340092 | Image processing device, image processing method, program for executing image processing, and computer readable recording medium on which the program is stored An image processing device extracts graphic areas, for example, firstly from image data received, and then extracts other remaining areas, i.e., photographic and character areas. The areas that are extracted firstly can be photographic or character areas. This preve... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333657 | Recognizing text in a multicolor image A method and apparatus for identifying and reproducing a background of a pixelmap. The method includes dividing the pixelmap into a grid of tiles, determining for each tile a background component and building a representation of a background in the pixelmap using th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333677 | Image alignment method, comparative inspection method, and comparative inspection device for comparative inspections The present invention provides a high-precision alignment method, device and code for inspections that compare an inspection image with a reference image and detect defects from their differences. In one embodiment an inspection image and a reference image are divid... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330195 | Graphic pieces for a border image A graphic piece can be used to add a border to an image. The graphic piece is created by creating a graphic image foreground image and a graphic image background image. The foreground and background images are merged into a graphic image file, the contents of which ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327492 | Image processing device and image processing method In a black character detection processing, RGB data read from a line buffer is converted into YIQ data. For a subject pixel, a subject area centered on the subject pixel is set, and a judgment pixel that has the lowest brightness in the subject area is set. Then, a ... | 02/05/2008 |
