Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110206401 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an image forming apparatus that includes an image forming unit which forms a chromatic toner image and a clear toner image on a recording material, and a fixing unit which fixes these toner images on the recording material, the image forming apparatus including a specifying unit, into which a level of image clarity and a level of gloss including a glossiness of an image are input for image formation; and a control unit that controls an adhesion amount of clear toner per unit area on the recording material based on input information on the image specified by the specifying unit. | 08-25-2011 |
20110222125 | Pseudo-halftoning device, image forming apparatus, and image forming system - An image forming system includes a pseudo-halftoning device; an image forming apparatus that forms a toner image on a recording medium; and a reading apparatus that read the toner image on the recording medium, in which the pseudo-halftoning device is such that pseudo-halftoning is performed on a target image by using a threshold matrix set including a plurality of threshold matrices, one threshold matrix for use is selected from the threshold matrix set according to a position of the target image to be used in the pseudo-halftoning performed on the target image, the threshold matrices in the threshold matrix set are identical with one another in periodic structure but different from one another only in a gradation characteristic, and a threshold matrix to be used is determined based on toner-image information data obtained by reading the toner image by the reading apparatus. | 09-15-2011 |
20120237698 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TRANSFER SHEET AND TRANSFER SHEET - A method of manufacturing transfer sheet is provided. The method includes forming a colored toner image on a sheet-like base material based on objective image data. The sheet-like base material has releasability. The method further includes defining an image area on the sheet-like base material based on the objective image data. The image area includes the colored toner image. The method further includes forming a transparent toner layer on the image area. The method further includes forming an adhesive layer on the transparent toner layer. The adhesive layer has hot-melt property. | 09-20-2012 |
20120320386 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has an image forming information processor to process image forming information and an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by forming a toner image using colored-toner and a toner image using glossy toner based on the image forming information processed by the image forming information processor. The image forming unit forms a glossy image on the recording medium based on glossy toner image forming information, in which the glossy image is formable on the recording medium using the colored-toner toner image alone, or a glossy image is formed on the recording medium by forming a colored-toner toner image using colored-toner based on the colored-toner image forming information, and then forming the glossy toner image on the colored-toner toner image as a top layer of the glossy image based on the glossy toner image forming information. | 12-20-2012 |
20130286445 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEM, AND IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD - An image capture apparatus includes: a light irradiation unit that irradiates an object with light; a reading unit that reads an image in accordance with reflected light of the light irradiated to the object; and an enhancement unit that enhances a predetermined spatial-frequency component of the image. | 10-31-2013 |
20140044373 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing device that is implemented on a computer is provided. The image processing device includes: enhancement direction determining unit configured to calculate spatial frequency of input image data and determine frequency component in which distribution amount of the spatial frequency maximizes; and enhancement processing unit configured to perform enhancement process by applying, to the input image data, enhancement amount that varies according to the distribution amount of the space frequency, based on the determined frequency component. | 02-13-2014 |
20140293341 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device that displays a printed material, includes a first calculator configured to calculate display data based on: original data of an image printed on a sheet of paper; first data indicating diffuse reflection of the sheet; second data used for giving regular reflection texture of the sheet to a display image for displaying texture of the printed material; and third data used for giving regular reflection texture of the image to the display image for displaying the texture of the printed material. | 10-02-2014 |
20150071562 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: a first smoothing unit that outputs a first smoothed image by using a first edge-preserving smoothing filter to an input image; a second smoothing unit that outputs a second smoothed image by further using a second edge-preserving smoothing filter to the first smoothed image output by the first smoothing unit; a correction data derivation unit that derives a difference between the first and second smoothed images as correction data; and a correcting unit that corrects the input image based on the correction data. | 03-12-2015 |