Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080231903 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In order to allow to store image data in a color reproducible format while reducing the data size, an image processing apparatus includes an image input unit which inputs image data by reading an original image, a determination unit which determines a representative color included in the image data, a binary image data generation unit which generates binary image data including no color information based on the image data, an additional data generation unit which generates additional data as color information corresponding to each pixel which forms the binary image data based on the representative color determined by the determination unit, and a storage unit which stores the binary image data and the additional data. | 09-25-2008 |
20090074291 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a document image, a primary region segmentation unit configured to segment the acquired document image into a plurality of regions, a detection unit configured to detect a text region including an erroneous sentence from the regions segmented by the primary region segmentation unit, a secondary region segmentation unit configured to detect a second attribute region partly overlapped with an original sentence of the erroneous sentence and separate the detected region into the second attribute region and a part of the original sentence, and a combining unit configured to combine the part of the original sentence separated by the secondary region segmentation unit with the text region including the erroneous sentence. | 03-19-2009 |
20090268216 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an allowable-amount-of-special-toner determining unit for determining an allowable amount of special toner from a total adhesion amount of toner of four colors including cyan, magenta, yellow, and black on an input image, a normal print-out unit for performing a normal print-out process, a two-path print-out unit for performing a two-path print-out process, a grouping unit for grouping pixels for which printing with the special toner is set into a first pixel group and a second pixel group based on the allowable amount of special toner; and a print-out-method selecting unit for selecting the normal print-out unit or the two-path print-out unit based on a percentage of the number of first-group pixels to the number of pixels for which printing with the special toner is set. | 10-29-2009 |
20090274369 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a dividing unit for dividing objects of an input image, a metadata adding unit for adding metadata to each of the divided objects by performing OCR processing and morpheme analysis, a display unit for displaying at least one of the divided objects and the metadata added to the divided object, and a metadata accuracy determining unit for determining accuracies of the added metadata. The display unit preferentially displays metadata determined as being low in accuracy by the metadata accuracy determining unit. | 11-05-2009 |
20090290797 | IMAGE PROCESSING FOR STORING OBJECTS SEPARATED FROM AN IMAGE IN A STORAGE DEVICE - An image processing apparatus has a separation unit for separating objects constituting an image input by an image input unit, a setting unit for setting a criterion to determine whether or not a separated object is stored, and a determination unit for determining whether the separated object is stored based on the criterion set by the setting unit. The image processing apparatus also has a unit for displaying the separated object, responding to a user access via an interface unit, when the separated object is determined to be stored by the determination unit and storing the separated object such that the separated object can be reused. | 11-26-2009 |
20090297033 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - An image processing apparatus extracts an area for each color from an illustration area, specifies an area that is in contact with the boundary of the illustration area, extracts a color around the illustration area, determines whether or not the extracted color around the illustration area is the same as the color of the specified area, and processes vector data that represents an area that has been determined as having the same color. | 12-03-2009 |
20090303504 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - The objective of the preset invention is to easily determine an optimal method for the use of transparent toner. In order to resolve this problem, an image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes an addition unit for adding, to each of objects that constitute an original document, information indicating either that transparent toner is to be printed for the entire surface of the original document or that transparent toner is to be printed for only part of the original document, a storage unit for storing the object and a generating unit for generating image data by employing the object stored in the storage unit, wherein, based on the information added to the object that is stored in the storage unit, the generating unit controls a number of pixels used for printing the transparent toner. | 12-10-2009 |
20100053648 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus not having a spot color printing function and connected a network cannot print out a proper image from image data which is already processed for spot color and stored in an image forming apparatus having a spot color printing function. When the image data subjected to the spot color process is stored in the image forming apparatus having the spot color printing function, difference information is stored together with the image data subjected to the spot color process. In order to print the data by a four-color output type of image forming apparatus not having the spot color printing function, the data is restored into four-color image data on the basis of the difference information, and the four-color image data is transmitted to the image forming apparatus not having the spot color printing function. | 03-04-2010 |
20100070854 | DEVICE FOR EDITING METADATA OF DIVIDED OBJECT - In a system that performs object division of a manuscript and adds metadata, a method is provided which can edit the metadata by an intuitive operation when no appropriate metadata is added or when it is desired that the metadata be increased by adding. An image processing device, which divides an manuscript acquired through an input component into a plurality of objects and adds the metadata, has a user interface for editing the metadata of the objects, and switches, after selecting first and second objects, a retouching method of the metadata in accordance with the contents of the respective metadata of the first object and second object. | 03-18-2010 |
20100097656 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An input image is segmented into regions based on attributes of the input image. It is determined whether each segmented region is an illustration region. When it is determined that the segmented region is an illustration region, the color of the determined illustration region is compared with that of a region around the illustration region. When these colors coincide with each other as a result of the comparison, attribute information of the illustration region is changed to that of the region around the illustration region. Print data is generated based on the changed attribute information. | 04-22-2010 |
20100171999 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF - There are cases in which an effective search index cannot be provided to an image data only by extracting character codes from a character object in PDL data. An image processing apparatus of the present invention obtains image data by rendering PDL data, and extracts a character object from the image data. The image processing apparatus performs character recognition processing on the extracted character object to obtain character code information, and provides metadata including the character code information to the image data. | 07-08-2010 |
20100315681 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus extracts, from an electronic document, object data having associated tag information which satisfies a condition specified by a user. The image processing apparatus generates an encoded image pattern which includes object ID information for identifying the extracted object data and electronic document specifying information for specifying the electronic document, and executes print processing of print data which includes the extracted object data and the generated encoded image pattern. | 12-16-2010 |
20110043840 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A problem that setting (setting the kind of a paper or a printout method) for achieving the print effect (gloss effect or matte effect) at a maximum is very complicated and therefore, a manual setting thereof by a user is very difficult. When image data which a user desires to print and a desire for a print effect to transparent form image data are input, the paper type, conversion of the transparent form image data and a printout method for realizing the print effect are automatically set and printed out. | 02-24-2011 |
20110134483 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus for generating print data determines whether an occupancy rate of objects to be printed on a paper sheet is larger than a set threshold value, and, in a case where the occupancy rate is determined to be larger than the threshold value, performs processing for changing to the objects to reduce the occupancy rate thereof. | 06-09-2011 |
20110141529 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus connected via a network to a plurality of image forming apparatuses that implement a first gradation correction, or a second gradation correction, for instructing the connected plurality of image forming apparatuses to implement gradation corrections. The image processing apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select the first gradation correction or second gradation correction, for each of the connected plurality of image forming apparatuses, an instruction unit configured to send an instruction to an image forming apparatus connected via the network for which a first gradation correction has been selected by the selection unit, a reading unit arranged in a reading section by a user, configured to read out patch patterns that have been printed by the image forming apparatus connected via the network, for which the second gradation correction has been selected, and a transmission unit configured to transmit data for correcting readout values of the patch patterns to the image forming apparatus connected via the network, for which the second gradation correction has been selected. | 06-16-2011 |
20120236335 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether printing is designated to be performed using a transparent recording agent with respect to an area to be printed with a color recording agent having a density lower than a threshold among areas included in input image data, and a printing unit configured to perform printing by transferring the color recording agent and the transparent recording agent to a sheet and fixing the color recording agent and the transparent recording agent to the sheet by a single fixing process to form an image of the area if the determination unit determines that the printing is designated to be performed using the transparent recording agent with respect to the area to be printed with the color recording agent having the density lower than the threshold. | 09-20-2012 |
20130235392 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided for allowing a user to achieve a desired image quality while controlling toner consumptions. An amount of toner reduced is calculated based on a set toner reduction rate. For objects other than an object specified as an excluded object to which toner reduction is not applied, a toner reduction rate for achieving the calculated amount of toner saved is calculated. | 09-12-2013 |
20130343792 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A problem that setting (setting the kind of a paper or a printout method) for achieving the print effect (gloss effect or matte effect) at a maximum is very complicated and therefore, a manual setting thereof by a user is very difficult. When image data which a user desires to pint and a desire for a print effect to transparent form image data ate input, the paper type, conversion of the transparent form, image data and a printout method for realizing the print effect are automatically set and printed out. | 12-26-2013 |
20140139884 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EXECUTING IMAGE PROCESSING AND PERFORMING DECORATION PROCESSING - An image processing apparatus which decorates color data contained in color image data with different decoration patterns for respective colors of the color data to output the color data includes a determination unit which determines a combination of a color of color data having a highest number of pixels among colors of color data contained in the color image data and a decoration pattern having a lowest number of pixels among the decoration patterns and a monochrome decoration output unit which decorates color data contained in the color image data in accordance with a combination of a color and a decoration pattern corresponding to the color determined by the determination unit for monochrome decoration output of the color image data. | 05-22-2014 |
20150070715 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the case where there is a solid-white character inside an object whose edge is left and from which colors of other portions are removed at the time of toner saving processing, removal of the color of an inner region surrounded by the edge will result in a remarkable reduction in visibility of the solid-white character. In order to solve the above-described problem, in the case where the color of a character that exists inside an object whose edge is left and from which colors of other portions are removed at the time of toner saving processing, an image processing apparatus of the present invention colors the character. | 03-12-2015 |