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| 358530000 | Specific image-processing circuitry | 48 |
| 20090097084 | Micro-fluid Ejection Apparatus Signal Communication Devices and Methods - Micro-fluid ejection apparatuses and devices, and methods related to communication in and with the same. One such micro-fluid ejection apparatus includes a controller configured to generate a data signal, and a transmitter configured to convert the data signal to a current signal. The apparatus further includes a conductor capable of carrying the current signal, and a receiver configured to receive the current signal from the conductor and to convert the current signal to a second data signal. The micro-fluid ejection apparatus is configured to operate on the second data signal. In one embodiment, the micro-fluid ejection apparatus may be a printing apparatus, such as an inkjet printing apparatus. In some embodiments, the current signal comprises a pair of corresponding differential current signals and/or current transfer logic signals offset from a base amperage level. In some embodiments, the transmitter and controller are provided within a main printing control board, while the receiver is provided within a printhead cartridge or a printhead carrier, and the operation comprises a printing function. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090244664 | Image Processing Device, Image Processing Method, and Program - An image processing device converts received color image data in accordance with a color gamut that an image output apparatus can express. A representative color is determined for each of a plurality of pixel aggregates formed by classifying pixels included in the color image data. An initial distribution of representative colors in a predetermined color space is set. An evaluation function takes a value increasing as a chroma difference between representative colors recedes from chroma that in the initial distribution. Apparatus color gamut data represents the color gamut that can be expressed by the image output apparatus chroma. After changing the chroma of a specific representative color in accordance with the color gamut of the image output apparatus, the chroma of the remaining representative colors is changed so that a summation of values of the evaluation function calculated between the representative colors becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined value. The color image data with respect to each of the pixels is converted in accordance with the changes in the chroma of the representative colors chroma. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090316236 | Image processing method, printer driver, imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and imaging system - An image processing method is disclosed for performing an under color removal process and a black recording liquid incorporation process on an input three-color signal, and generating image data for an imaging apparatus that is configured to form a color image on a recording medium using recording liquids of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. The method includes the steps of regulating a maximum black recording liquid incorporation amount such that glossiness of black realized in an image formed on a glossy recording medium is not degraded, setting the black to be realized by the black recording liquid until reaching the regulated maximum black recording liquid incorporation amount, and setting the black to be realized through addition of a composite of the cyan, magenta, and yellow recording liquids if the black to be realized requires an amount of the black recording liquid exceeding the regulated maximum black recording liquid incorporation amount. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100014132 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus for laying out a plurality of drawing data elements contained in a document in one or more pages includes a rearrangement determining portion configured to determine whether at least one of the plurality of drawing data elements can be rearranged in a blank area in a different page and a color output determining portion configured to, when the rearrangement determining portion determines that the drawing data element can be rearranged in the blank area, determine whether rearrangement of the drawing data element in the different page will change a color output result of the drawing data element. | 01-21-2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100231995 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus for processing input image data selects, as a comparative cluster to be compared with a pixel of interest in the input image data, a cluster for which an absolute value of a difference between a component sum of the pixel of interest and a component sum of a representative value of the cluster is not more than a first threshold value. And the apparatus calculates a color distance between the pixel of interest and the representative value of each of the comparative clusters. The apparatus classifies the pixel of interest to a cluster corresponding to a minimum value of the color distances, if the minimum value of the color distances is not more than a second threshold value and generates a new cluster to which the pixel of interest is to be classified, if all the color distances are larger than the second threshold value. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100231996 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus, configured to extract additional information added to an original document and perform a processing according to a result of the extraction, inputs image data obtained by causing a scanner to read an image of the original document, converts color component of the input image data into a color component different from the color component of the additional information, and causes a printer to print image data having the converted color component as a document to which a user can add additional information. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100328740 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING - Spectral power distribution of an illumination is restored using color information in a region of the specific object in an input image and a pre-specified representative surface reflectance of the specific object. The surface reflectance in the region of the specific object is restored from the color information and the spectral power distribution of the illumination. The surface reflectance is corrected using three or more pre-specified reference surface reflectances of the specific object. The color in the region of the specific object is calculated from the spectral power distribution of the illumination and the corrected surface reflectance. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110002018 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ELIMINATING BLURRING OF SCANNED IMAGE - For the problem of blurring at a boundary in a scanned illustration, a method of separating and vectorizing color regions accurately is realized by identification of a labeled region corresponding to the blurring and combining processing with another neighboring region. An image input unit, a color region dividing unit dividing an input image into the color regions, a labeling unit providing an individual label to the color region, a labeled region shape analysis unit obtaining labeled region shape information including information representing a shape feature of a labeled region which is the color region provided with the label, a micro-region determination unit determining whether the labeled region provided with the label is a micro-region or not according to the labeled region shape information, and a micro-region combining unit combining the region determined to be the micro-region with a neighboring region, are comprised. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110063699 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a conversion unit and a determination unit. The first storage unit stores color conversion information for converting a name of a spot color other than process colors into a combination of the process colors. The second storage unit stores additional print material information regarding an additional print material. The additional print material information is input by a user for the name of the spot color. The conversion unit converts the name of the spot color, which is included in image data, into the combination of the process colors based on the color conversion information. The determination unit determines, for the name of the spot color included in the image data, a use amount of the additional print material, based on the additional print material information. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110304894 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a read unit and a first correction unit. The read unit reads a document and generates multilevel image data from the document. The first correction unit corrects the multilevel image data contained in a first range predetermined as a color indicating a fluorescent color so as to move the multilevel image data contained in the first range to an outside of a print color range when at least a part of the multilevel image data is contained in the first range. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120019881 | COLOR PROFILE SELECTION - Scanner, method or computer program product, arranged to sense media color information, store predetermined color values of preselected non-printed media and storing corresponding color profiles adapted for the respective preselected media, and process sensed color values, compare a sensed color value with the predetermined color values, and select one of said color profiles based on the comparison. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120162730 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit, an extraction unit, a determination unit and an addition unit is provided. The acquisition unit acquires an image of one page from images of a plurality of pages included in one file. The extraction unit extracts color information, which is information about a color of the image of the one page acquired by the acquisition unit. The determination unit determines whether the color information extracted by the extraction unit satisfies a predetermined condition for specifying a page partition. The addition unit adds additional information, by which the page partition can be searched, to at least one of the images of the plurality of pages, when the determination unit determines that the color information satisfies the predetermined condition. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120287489 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING A DOCUMENT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH A SERVICE, AND ASSOCIATED SCANNERMETHODS FOR CLASSIFYING A DUCUMENT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH A SERVICE, AND ASSOCIATED SCANNER - The invention relates to a method for classifying a document ( | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120327488 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image forming apparatus of an embodiment includes an acquisition unit and a controller. The acquisition unit scans a sheet to acquire the color image of the sheet. The controller converts, using parameters stored in a storage unit, the color image acquired by the acquisition unit to a monochrome image with at least one specific color being darker than the other colors. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130083377 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing method which can generate an image having a high quality and a small data quantity. An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a dividing unit which calculates a threshold value based on a pixel value distribution in image data, and divides pixels into two classes based on the calculated threshold value, a purification unit which prepares purified image data obtained by changing the pixel belonging to one class divided by the dividing unit into a specific color, and a pseudo-gradation binarization unit which binarizes the purified image data through a pseudo-gradation method. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130135700 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image processing apparatus having a first reading unit to read a front-face image of an original which is conveyed and a second reading unit to read a back-face image of the original which is conveyed, image processing parameters for eliminating the back-face image which is projected as a show-through image to the front-face image of the original which is displayed to a displaying unit are input. An image process according to each of the input image processing parameters is executed to image data of the front-face. The image data displayed to the displaying unit is switched to the image-processed image data of the front-face. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130176605 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, SPECIFYING MARK ESTIMATING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an estimating unit and a hiding unit. The estimating unit extracts a subject specifying mark image corresponding to a specifying mark from a recording area image corresponding to a recording area in which an image is recorded, plural predetermined types of specifying marks having predetermined attributes different from an attribute of the image of the recording area and being used for specifying a region within the recording area by using different specifying methods, at least one of the plural predetermined types of specifying marks being recorded in the recording area. The estimating unit estimates the type of specifying mark corresponding to the extracted subject specifying mark image. The hiding unit hides the region specified by the type of specifying mark estimated by the estimating unit by using a hiding method which is uniquely determined for the estimated type of specifying mark. | 07-11-2013 |
| 358531000 | Electronic retouch | 1 |
| 20130155475 | DETERMINING TRANSPARENT FILLS BASED ON A REFERENCE BACKGROUND COLOUR - Disclosed is a method of generating an electronic document having an enclosed region with a fill colour. The method receives a digital representation of a source document, the source document containing an enclosed region and at least one corresponding background region, the enclosed region overlapping at least a portion of the background region. A fill colour is determined for the enclosed region from the digital representation as is a reference background colour for the enclosed region from the corresponding background region of the digital representation. The method assigns a transparent fill colour to the enclosed region based on a comparison of the determined fill colour for the enclosed region with the reference background colour and stores enclosed region with the transparent fill colour to generate an electronic document. | 06-20-2013 |
| 358532000 | Sharpness emphasizing | 1 |
| 20120194883 | CHARACTER DETECTION APPARATUS, CHARACTER DETECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A character detection apparatus is provided which detects, from an image including a first image representing a character and a second image representing a translucent object, the character. The character detection apparatus includes a hue distribution calculating portion that, for each of blocks obtained by dividing an overlapping region in which the first image is overlapped by the second image, calculates a frequency of appearance of pixels for each of hues, and a detection portion that detects the character from the overlapping region based on the frequency for each of the hues. | 08-02-2012 |
| 358533000 | Moire reduction | 1 |
| 20120033277 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus may include a first screen processing unit, a moiré component calculation unit, a first correction unit, and a second screen processing unit. The first screen processing unit performs screen processing on image data to form screen processed image data. The moiré component calculation unit calculates an original moiré component that corresponds to a low-frequency component of the screen processed image data and a low-frequency component of the image data. The first correction unit corrects the image data based on a calculated moiré component. The second screen processing unit performs the screen processing on the corrected image data. | 02-09-2012 |
| 358534000 | Halftone processing | 6 |
| 20080316554 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In order to form a high-quality image, upon execution of multi-pass printing using a printing head with a plurality of nozzles, an image processing apparatus calculates, using a scan duty setting unit ( | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090296175 | TONE REPRODUCTION CURVE LINEARIZATION - A marking device is controlled to mark a media sheet with halftone dots selected from a set of image halftone dot representations. The marking device is controlled to mark a monitored surface with halftone dots selected from a set of control halftone dot representations to form test patches of different nominal marking densities. Measured marking densities are acquired using a density sensor for the test patches marked on the monitored surface. The set of control halftone dot representations is updated based on the measured marking densities and the nominal marking densities. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20160028920 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit, an acquisition unit, a determining unit, and a density correction unit. The reading unit reads a document to generate image data. The acquisition unit acquires color material reduction information reflecting a color material reduction process applicable to the document. The determining unit determines whether to correct the image data based on the acquired color material reduction information. The density correction unit performs a density correction process on the image data if the determining unit has determined to correct the image data. | 01-28-2016 |
| 358535000 | Matrix | 2 |
| 20090141321 | GENERATING AN INTERIM CONNECTION SPACE FOR SPECTRAL DATA - Generation of an Interim Connection Space for spectral data in a full spectral space is provided. A set of linear maps is accessed, each linear map characterizing a linear transformation from the full spectral space to a colorimetric space, and spectral measurement data is accessed. The linear maps can for example be determined by a set of illuminants. The full spectral space is decomposed into a first subspace that minimizes a loss of a spectral component in the spectral measurement data under a projection along a second subspace onto the first subspace. The second subspace is a null subspace of the set of linear maps. The Interim Connection Space is generated based on the first subspace. The Interim Connection Space can include, for example, a linear map characterizing a linear transformation from the Interim Connection Space to the full spectral space, and a linear map characterizing a linear transformation from the full spectral space to the Interim Connection Space. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090141322 | GENERATING A DEVICE INDEPENDENT INTERIM CONNECTION SPACE FOR SPECTRAL DATA - Generation of an Interim Connection Space (ICS) of a full spectral space is provided. A space of illuminants is accessed, and the full spectral space is decomposed into a first subspace that is an orthogonal complement of a metameric black subspace for the space of illuminants. The Interim Connection Space is generated based on the first subspace. The generated ICS can be used, for example, for rendering an image on an additive color destination device. One image rendering workflow includes accessing color data of the image in an ICS, transforming the color data from the ICS into a device dependent color space of an additive color destination device, and rendering the transformed color data on the destination device. | 06-04-2009 |
| 358536000 | Halftone screening | 1 |
| 20090109509 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides an image processor and an image processing method which can minimize variation of color tone or density in an image after screen processing, even if semi-transparency has been specified. The image processor of the present invention generates semi-transparent image data by overlaying a semi-transparent object on the PDL data to be rendered semi-transparent. Subsequently, screen processing is performed on the semi-transparent image data, by dither processing. Subsequently it is determined whether or not to define the screen processed semi-transparent image data as the image data for printing. If the result of determination is No, halftone value of the semi-transparent object is modified to be larger than the current value. | 04-30-2009 |
| 358537000 | Image editing | 4 |
| 20080218816 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND PREVIEW IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD - In an image processing apparatus, a plurality of images and a page allocation area including a plurality of sections are displayed. The allocation unit determines which one of the images is to be allocated to which one of the sections and allocates the images to the sections, and a preview image generating unit generates a preview image of the page allocation area based on allocation made by the allocation unit, and displays the preview image on the screen. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080297863 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - In an image processing method for carrying out an image quality correction for correcting an image quality on each of a plurality of images in an image group to obtain corrected images, an image processing method includes the steps of carrying out a temporary image quality correction for correcting an image quality on each images in the image group to obtain a temporarily corrected image. A characteristic value representing an image quality for each temporarily corrected image is calculated and a target characteristic value is calculated so that dispersion of each characteristic value to the target characteristic value is minimized on the basis of the characteristic value of each temporarily corrected image. A correction value of each of the plurality of images in the image group which corrects the characteristic value thereof to the target characteristic value is obtained, and the image is corrected with the correction value. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090153925 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINING IMAGE AND NON-IMAGE SIDES OF SCANNED HARDCOPY MEDIA - A system and method for determining the image and ancillary image sides of scanned hardcopy media. Hardcopy prints typically provide ancillary data to supply additional information for an area of interest and can enhance the analysis of key data in the print. Postcards, for example, provide a unique form of ancillary data. On the back of a postcard image, ancillary data information such as stamps, user notes, dates, addresses, and other types of annotation can be found. This data typically provides additional information to a reader of the postcard. Dual sided scanners provide both the image and ancillary (i.e., non-image) scans simultaneously. In addition, ancillary data can be in a variety of formats, such as audio, video and the like. When a hardcopy print is scanned the scanner provides two image files that represent the image and ancillary image sides of the print. However, given two image files that represent a hardcopy print scan, the front and back need to be automatically identified as to which is of primary interest to a user. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20130057934 | IMAGE EDITING SYSTEM, IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM - An image layout apparatus includes a cropping unit, a displaying unit, a checking unit, first and second computing units, a noticing unit, and a preventing unit. The cropping unit crops an image file image. The displaying unit displays and arranges cropped images on a page. The checking unit checks whether first and second image files are same. The first computing unit computes, in response to the first image file and the second image file being the same, an overlapping area between a first displayed image and a second displayed image. The second computing unit computes overlapping size ratio of the computed overlapping area. The noticing unit notices, in response to the first image file and the second image file being the same, information regarding duplication of image files. The preventing unit prevents, in response to the computed overlapping size ratio being smaller than a predetermined value, noticing the information. | 03-07-2013 |
| 358538000 | Image portion selection | 11 |
| 20090109510 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT SHEETSIDE BITMAP PROCESSING USING META-DATA INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus for using meta-data structures to represent portions of a bitmap memory when generating the sheetside image and when generating a compressed representation of the sheetside image. A table of meta-data structures is maintained with each structure corresponding to a portion of the bitmap memory. Data objects representing a sheetside image are processed by determining which portions the data object would affect, by updating the meta-data structures corresponding to affected portions to indicate whether the affect generates a “compact” type of data or a “non-compact” type of data, and for the “non-compact” types of data writing data to the bitmap memory. For portions having “compact” type of data, the corresponding meta-data structures alone describes the bitmap portion of data. A compressed-bitmap generator then uses the meta-data structures and the portions of the bitmap memory containing “non-compact” data to generate a compressed representation of the sheetside image. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100225984 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: a first determination unit that determines whether each of an image regions is for a vector image; a color number counting unit that counts the number of colors in the pixels of high-resolution image data; a frequency counting unit that counts a number of times where the difference between the colors of each of the pixels in the high-resolution image data and the colors of at least one pixel located around each of those pixels is greater than or equal to a threshold; a second determination unit that determines that the image region is not an image region for a vector image; and a generation unit that generates image data in which a process for rendering images in the image regions determined by the first determination unit to be image regions for vector images is defined by numerical values or numerical formulas. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100290096 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes an acceptance unit which accepts an input of print data; a decision unit which decides whether or not a draw instruction for a two-color image consisting of a background color and a foreground color is contained in the print data accepted by the acceptance unit; and a conversion unit which converts to draw a graphic representing a part of the foreground color in the two-color image for an image drawn area, instead of a draw process in pixel units concerning the two-color image, when the decision unit decides that the draw instruction for the two-color image is contained in the print data. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20130128324 | RASTER IMAGE CONVERSION APPARATUS, IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONVERTING RASTER IMAGE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A raster image conversion apparatus, a method of converting a raster image, an image scanning apparatus, and a computer-readable recording medium. The method includes dividing the raster image into a background area, a single color area, and a multicolored area, generating metacommands respectively corresponding to the background area, the single color area, and the muiticolored area, and generating a metafile based on the generated metacommands, such that the generation of the metacommands includes vectoring a contour of the single color area and generating a metacommand corresponding to the vectored contour. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130163058 | IMAGE ESTIMATION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image estimation apparatus includes: a forming unit that forms a reference frame with a size determined uniquely in accordance with a size of a recording region where an image is recorded; and an estimating unit that estimates a type of a single image based on a size of a bounding frame around the single image and the size of the reference frame formed by the forming unit, the single image being a target of type inference in an image contained in a designation region in a recording region image which is an image indicating the recording region where an image is recorded. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130250379 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCANNING PRINTED MATERIAL - System and method of continuously scanning turned pages of printed material, the method including capturing a first image of a first page of the printed material in a front of an imaging device, detecting a page turn, the detecting including setting a motion threshold value of the captured first image, the motion threshold value, scanning and obtaining motion values for successive image frames of the printed material, and comparing the motion value of each successive image frame with the motion value of a preceding image frame. The method further includes capturing a second image of a next page, determining whether the first image and the second image is of the same page, the determining including performing first and second threshold tests, wherein the second threshold test is performed faster and is less accurate than the first threshold test. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20140285861 | Image-Processing Device Removing Encircling Lines for Identifying Sub-Regions of Image - The present invention provides an image-processing device that includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores computer-readable instructions therein. The computer-readable instructions cause the image-processing device to perform identifying a first region and a second region in a target image. The first region represents an encircling line for identifying a specific sub-region in the target image. The first region includes a plurality of pixels. The second region includes an inside region that is surrounded by the first region, and an outside region that is outside the first region. The image-processing device further performs changing a color value of a first target pixel included in the plurality of the pixels using a first internal pixel and a first external pixel. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140293383 | Image-Processing Device Identifying Object in Image Specified by Encircling Line - A computer-readable instructions in an image-processing device, when executed by a processor, cause the image-processing device to perform: acquiring a target image; identifying an encircling region and an object region; determining a first candidate region and a second candidate region by using both the encircling line region and the object region; and extracting a contacting object region including a first candidate region and a second candidate region that satisfies conditions as follows: a condition that the first candidate region is disposed on an inner peripheral side of the encircling line region, and that the second candidate region is disposed on an outer peripheral side of the encircling line region; and another condition that the first candidate region and the second candidate region abut the encircling line region, and that the first candidate region and the second candidate region confront each other across the encircling line region. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20150077817 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE, NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM - The image processing apparatus includes an input image acquisition module for acquiring an input image generated by reading a document, a character string information calculator for calculating character string density or character string variance in the input image, and a document type identification module for identifying a type of the document based on the character string density or the character string variance. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20160044197 | METHOD OF SCANNING DOCUMENT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of scanning a document includes obtaining an original image by scanning a document; detecting at least one pair of marks disposed on the original image; extracting an image of an area that is defined by the detected at least one pair of marks from the original image; and creating a new document file by using the extracted image. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160044198 | METHOD OF SCANNING DOCUMENT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of scanning a document includes obtaining an original image by scanning a document; detecting at least one pair of marks disposed on the original image; extracting an image of an area that is defined by the detected at least one pair of marks from the original image; and creating a new document file by using the extracted image. | 02-11-2016 |
| 358539000 | Image coding (encoder/decoder) | 4 |
| 20090051985 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, COLOR DATA CONVERSION METHOD, AND COLOR DATA CONVERSION PROGRAM - The present invention claims and discloses an image forming device for generating color data contained in a second color gamut of a second device based on color data contained in a first color gamut of a first device. The image forming device comprises a color data generation unit that divides the first color gamut into two or more layers based on a grid point coordinate of a color conversion lookup table; a color gamut compression unit that generates a chroma value of each layer of the second color gamut based on a chroma value of each layer of the first color gamut; and an LUT generation unit that generates the color conversion lookup table based on the generated second color gamut. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090122373 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus includes a first image reduction unit that creates reduced-image data from image data, a coding unit that creates a reduced-image file from the reduced-image data, a memory unit that stores the reduced-image file in association with an original-image file created from the original image, a display unit that displays the content of the reduced-image file, a display controller that controls the display unit, a transfer unit that transfers the reduced-image file read out from the memory unit to the display controller, and a conversion unit that converts the content of the reduced-image file transferred to the display controller into signals to display on the display unit. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20140036326 | Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing Method - Provided are an image processing apparatus and an image processing method, for compressing an image by using a representative-color-based compression which includes dividing an image to be compressed into plural blocks, extracting representative colors from each of the blocks, and assigning each pixel in the blocks one of the representative colors. The image processing apparatus includes: a compressing section configured to perform the following operations. The operations include generating color compression data by performing a representative-color-based compression on a color input image, generating first monochrome compression data by performing a monochrome conversion of representative colors extracted in the generating the color compression data, generating second monochrome compression data by performing a monochrome conversion and then a representative-color-based compression on the color input image, generating difference data by comparing the first and second monochrome compression data, and outputting the color compression data and the difference data. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20150124301 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In an image processing apparatus for encoding image data and a method of controlling the same, whether an attribute of each of a plurality of areas in image data corresponds to an edge in an image based on the image data is determined, and one of a plurality of sub-sampling processes is selected according to the determination for each of the plurality of areas. Note that the plurality of sub-sampling processes can sub-sample color difference components of each of the plurality of areas by different processes. By the sub-sampling process selected as that corresponding to each of the plurality of areas, each of the plurality of areas is sub-sampled to encode the image data. | 05-07-2015 |
| 358540000 | Composite image | 2 |
| 20110279877 | IMAGE CREATION DEVICE, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, IMAGE-TRANSMITTING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM USED IN SAME - Color image data composed of pixels arranged in a matrix wherein colors are expressed in bit rows is created from an acquired document file, and same-resolution binary image data and low-resolution binary image data composed of binary pixels arranged in a matrix are created based on the color image data. A first combining process is performed in which a lower bit value of a predetermined color of the pixels of the color image data is replaced with the value of the corresponding ones of the pixels of the same pixels, and a second combining process is performed in which a lower bit value of a color other than the bit replaced in the first combining process in the pixels of the first combined image data is replaced with the value of the corresponding ones of the pixels of the low-resolution binary image data. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20160103642 | PRINTING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF A PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device and a control method of a printing device efficiently execute a process of merging plural data objects and printing. The printer has a printer control unit that interprets and renders plural print object datas on plural layers, and generates print data by overwriting and merging one layer on another layer, and a print unit that prints based on the print data generated by the printer control unit. | 04-14-2016 |
