Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080231882 | DIGITAL MULTIPLE APPARATUS - In a digital multiple apparatus, at least two different jobs are processed by at least two job processing units, and while job processing by one job processing unit, if there is an interruption by job processing by the other job processing unit, an end time of the job processing by the one job processing unit is predicted on the basis of job processing time required for the job processing by the other job processing unit. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232827 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus and an image forming method in the invention include a scanner unit, an image forming unit, and a discarding unit. When time during which a recording medium having an image formed thereon is discharged to a paper discharge tray has exceeded a set time set in advance, the recording medium is discarded to the discarding unit to prevent the recording medium from being inspected by a third party and secure confidentiality. | 09-25-2008 |
20080304109 | IMAGE-SORTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-SORTING METHOD - An image-sorting apparatus includes a feeding unit to feed printed sheets sequentially carried in from an external print unit, in which an electronic watermark is added to an important printed sheet. Particularly, the image-sorting apparatus includes a read unit to read the electronic watermark from the printed sheet fed by the feeding unit, and a control unit to control the feeding unit to feed the printed sheets to one of a first and a second transfer position based on a read result of the electronic watermark. | 12-11-2008 |
20090136088 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a watermark process section in an image processing apparatus, a visible watermark pattern read-out section reads out a visible watermark pattern that is stored in a memory. An invisible watermark generating section draws an invisible watermark on the read-out visible watermark pattern. Image data, which includes both the visible watermark and drawn invisible watermark, is multiplied by an overlay ratio. An adder section adds the visible/invisible watermark image data, which is multiplied by the overlay ratio, and input image data. Thus, watermark-overlaid image data is generated. | 05-28-2009 |
20090202151 | FORMAT PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR DOCUMENT IMAGE AND FORMAT PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image processing apparatus of an embodiment of the invention includes a character region characteristic determination unit to identify a character region of an image and to output a character region characteristic determination signal, a character region image separation unit to separate, based on the character region characteristic determination signal, the image into at least two attribute regions, that is, plural character region images and an other region image, and a separated image processing unit to process each of the plural character region images and the other region image, and in at least the separated image processing unit, according to a characteristic of each of the plural character region images, at least one process of a compression method, a compression ratio, a resolution, and a multi-value number for at least one of the character region images is different from a process of the other region image or the other character region image. | 08-13-2009 |
20090202165 | IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment of the invention, a high-speed and high-image-quality image decoding method and apparatus for a compressed signal including plural components or a block code in which different compression systems are combined. In an image decoding method in which compressed data of an image signal including plural components including a resolution component expressed by the n-th power of 2 (where n is an integer equal to or greater than 0) and processed by a frequency conversion system is decoded by inverse frequency conversion of each component, a resolution component of each compressed data for each component is individually set and decoded when decoding resolution at the time of decoding is lower than the highest resolution of the compressed data. | 08-13-2009 |
20090323090 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a function selection unit configured to acquire an operation function of the image forming apparatus by selection of a user, a first distortion detection and correction unit configured to detect and correct distortion of an input image by a first method when a first operation function is selected, a second distortion detection and correction unit configured to detect and correct the distortion of the input image by a second method different from the first method when a second operation function is selected, and an image output unit configured to output the input image of which the distortion is corrected. | 12-31-2009 |
20100202004 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When a monochromatic copy mode is to be executed, a control section sets a read mode in a scanner section so as to enable the scanner section to read an image at high speed by means of only a line sensor K, sets in an image processing section an image process that can print monochromatic image information, which is sent from the scanner section, with a single black color in the printer section, and sets in the printer section a monochromatic print mode that can print a black image at high speed, thereby controlling a monochromatic copy operation. | 08-12-2010 |
20100221023 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus and an image forming method in the invention include a scanner unit, an image forming unit, and a discarding unit. When time during which a recording medium having an image formed thereon is discharged to a paper discharge tray has exceeded a set time set in advance, the recording medium is discarded to the discarding unit to prevent the recording medium from being inspected by a third party and secure confidentiality. | 09-02-2010 |
20110235121 | DIGITAL MULTIPLE APPARATUS - In a digital multiple apparatus, at least two different jobs are processed by at least two job processing units, and while job processing by one job processing unit, if there is an interruption by job processing by the other job processing unit, an end time of the job processing by the one job processing unit is predicted on the basis of job processing time required for the job processing by the other job processing unit. | 09-29-2011 |
20120057188 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When a monochromatic copy mode is to be executed, a control section sets a read mode in a scanner section so as to enable the scanner section to read an image at high speed by means of only a line sensor K, sets in an image processing section an image process that can print monochromatic image information, which is sent from the scanner section, with a single black color in the printer section, and sets in the printer section a monochromatic print mode that can print a black image at high speed, thereby controlling a monochromatic copy operation. | 03-08-2012 |