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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180113 | Stain determination apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and stain determination method In a stain determination apparatus or sheet processing apparatus, an input processing unit inputs image information containing an inherent variation that is not related to a stain, a feature extracting unit extracts a plurality of feature information items from the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175339 | Scoring items A system identifies an image and determines whether the image contains inappropriate content based on first data associated with the image, second data associated with a document that contains the image or refers to the image, and/or third data associated with a gro... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175338 | Map-based aesthetic evaluation of document layouts A method is disclosed for determining the aesthetic quality of a document page. The method partitions the document page into a plurality of regions according to a predetermined map. Each region is then evaluated to determine whether the region is of acceptable aesth... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170291 | Methods and systems for analyzing the quality of digital signature confirmation images Methods and systems for evaluating an imager that produces bi-chrome images from a scanner or a digital imaging device, the bi-chrome images having pixels of a first and second color. In one embodiment, a method includes generating an image with a hand-held imaging ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170289 | Hierarchical alignment of character sequences representing text of same source Systems and methods for character-by-character alignment of two character sequences (such as OCR output from a scanned document and an electronic version of the same document) using a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) in a hierarchical fashion are disclosed. The method may ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170290 | Method for checking an imprint and imprint checking device A method for checking an imprint reads an imprint, forms a data code from the imprint, and compares the data code with a predetermined number of check data codes of a stored data set. During a search for the data code in the data set, the method decides whether the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8150106 | Printer characterization, monitoring and diagnosis using dynamic test patterns generated by sensing and analyzing customer documents A method for automated image quality based diagnosis of a document printing system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving image data to be printed on a document; printing an image on the document based on the image data; scanning the printed image on the docum... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144936 | Camera based ink application verification The present application relates to a method, apparatus and programmable product for verifying print quality of a document assembled on a document manufacturing device. In particular, a system and related method for performing print quality assessment of the document... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8116533 | Operator interactive document image processing system Methods and systems for operator intervention in a document processing system are disclosed. One possible method includes capturing images of documents within a document processing system. The method further includes executing computerized analysis of the images to ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8094889 | Procedure for verifying the integrity of document Procedure for verifying the integrity of documents which comprises a characterization of the original document to obtain a hash (508) and a stage of integrity verification, this stage comprising in turn, representing (601) the digital document to be ve... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090156 | Print quality evaluation apparatus and method of print quality evaluation A method and apparatus to evaluate print quality determines an indicator thereof by measuring a reflectance of printed dots by scanning a medium on which pattern data having a predetermined pattern is printed. The predetermined pattern includes a highlight region an... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085989 | Method and apparatus for determining authenticity In an authenticity determining apparatus, an image-data acquiring unit acquires image data of a paper sheet; a block-value calculating unit divides the image data into a plurality of blocks each composed of a plurality of pixels and calculates a block value of each ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8036430 | Image-processing device and image-processing method, image-pickup device, and computer program An image-processing device configured to process image data including at least one face image includes an image-input unit configured to input the image data, a face-detection unit configured to detect the at least one face image from an image frame of the input ima... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031911 | Print proofing using mottling tile A method for producing mottling in an image includes modifying digital colorant information in a digital image data file for at least one of a plurality of colorants. The degree of modification is based on digital colorant information in the digital image data file,... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7991198 | Visible authentication patterns for printed document Techniques for determining authenticity of analog forms such as packaging or documents (117). One of the techniques determines whether the analog form has been made directly from a digital representation (903) or by photocopying or scanning an analog f... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991197 | Sheet identifying apparatus and sheet identifying method The class of a sheet is efficiently estimated and a pattern identification process which is robust to a variation in the medium can be performed by dividing an image pattern of the sheet into a plurality of areas (pixels or sets of pixels), weighting and selecting t... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978882 | Scoring items A system identifies an image and determines whether the image contains inappropriate content based on first data associated with the image, second data associated with a document that contains the image or refers to the image, and/or third data associated with a gro... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7957561 | Apparatus and method for measuring quality of image received via communication network Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for measuring quality of an image received via a communication network. The apparatus includes an interface unit, a codec unit, a test image detection unit, and a Mean Opinion Score (MOS) measurement unit. The interface u... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953249 | Fractal S-method for evaluating image quality This invention provides an improved method for evaluating the quality of images using a test Skr-matrix system. The index k refers to the fractal level in an Skr-matrix, having matrices themselves as elements. The index r≦k refers to the Kron... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949155 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes image memory that stores an image; character recognition rate acquisition unit that segments the image stored in the image memory into a plurality of partial images and acquiring a character recognition rate for each partial im... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7903844 | Failure analysis system, failure analysis method, and program product for failure analysis A failure analysis system includes an obtaining portion that obtains read-in image information that is image information obtained by reading an output image, a memory that stores fundamental image reduction information that is information in which an information amo... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7869623 | Inspection machine and process The machine comprises at least a first sheet inspection unit with an inspection cylinder for transporting a printed sheet during inspection, an illumination means and a camera connected to an analysing device, an input transfer cylinder to bring the printed sheet to... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864985 | Automatic operator-induced artifact detection in document images Techniques for scanning a document, such as a book, magazine, or catalog, are described in which artifacts (e.g., a hand or other body part) in the scanned image are automatically detected. When the artifact is determined to be in a critical portion of the image, a ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864984 | Line position calculating method, correction value obtaining method, and storage medium having program stored thereon A line position calculating method is a method for calculating a position, in a second direction, of a line along a first direction in an image, based on image data of the image constituted by a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form in the first direction an... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860278 | Measuring color on a moving substrate An image processing apparatus for use with a printed image on a moving substrate is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a first imaging device configured to process spatial data which indicates a position of color patches printed along an edge portion ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7844080 | Image processing system and image processing method, and computer program An image processing system includes a modified area deciding unit, a modified area correlation deciding unit, a display selecting unit and a displaying unit. The modified area deciding unit executes processing of deciding a modified area containing a pixel area, whi... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7831907 | Grouping of information items on a page A method for computing apparatus to create a page with a plurality of information items laid out upon it is described. A plurality of information items and a definition of one or more groups of information items to be formed on the page are received, as is a candida... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7783080 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium readable by computer An image processing apparatus includes: a change region judging unit that performs a judging process including a pixel area discriminated to represent additional writing information on a change region according to input image data; a change region state judging unit... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7773775 | Surrogate document indicator and methods of using same Surrogate document indicator and methods of using same. A surrogate document image encoded on a storage medium as part of a database or repository of images includes a surrogate document image indicator. In example embodiments, images within the system, including su... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773776 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reading process apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, and computer-readable storage medium An image processing apparatus is provided with a halftone frequency determining section for determining a halftone frequency of an image data consisting of plural color components. The halftone frequency determining section is provided with a flat halftone discrimin... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773774 | Dynamic test pattern composition for image-analysis based automatic machine diagnostics The present invention is directed to a system and method for test target selection in conjunction with dynamic test pattern generation. In the invention, a test pattern page(s) is composed using an optimal set of test targets, which can be accommodated or adjusted t... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7751592 | Scoring items A system identifies an image and determines whether the image contains inappropriate content based on first data associated with the image, second data associated with a document that contains the image or refers to the image, and/or third data associated with a gro... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7724922 | Inter-step plate image inspection for printing prepress Plate-image-inspection RIP data CD2, CD3 are prepared using the same RIP processing conditions from two print image data prepared in different steps of the prepress process, and inspection results are obtained by comparing these data CD2, CD3... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715592 | Analysis of video signal quality Two video signals, typically an original signal and a degraded version of the same signal, are analyzed firstly to identify perceptually relevant boundaries of elements forming video images depicted therein. These boundaries are then compared to determine the extent... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7697728 | System and method of sorting document images based on image quality A document processing system and method for using image quality to sort documents. The document processing system comprises: a document sorting system that designates a destination pocket for each document based on data gathered from each document; a document imagin... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693305 | System and method of sorting document images based on image quality A document processing system and method for using image quality to sort documents. The document processing system comprises: a document sorting system that designates a destination pocket for each document based on data gathered from each document; a document imagin... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693304 | Method and system for image quality calculation An exemplary method for determining quality of an image, includes segmenting the image into sections, generating quality measures for each section, and combining the quality measures of the sections to form a quality measure for the image. An exemplary system for de... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689004 | Method and apparatus for evaluating the quality of document images A method of evaluating the quality of an image of a document comprises examining the image to determine if the image satisfies at least one parameter-based image metric and examining the image to determine if the image satisfies a plurality of order-dependent image ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7672486 | Method for evaluating the quality of a printed matter, provided by a printing machine The quality of printed matter, which is one of several copies of the same printed matter produced by a printing machine, is evaluated. An amount of copies of the printed matter is selected from the total production of this printed matter. The selected amount of thes... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668344 | Stain inspection method and apparatus (A) Luminance data is prepared. (B) A group of first order differential values is obtained from luminance values of said luminance data along a first direction, a group of second order differential values is obtained from the group of first order differential values... | 02/23/2010 |
