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8184340 Method for color rendering using scanned halftone classification  
What is disclosed is an image path that advantageously uses halftone classification to select appropriate mappings in gray-scale management and color management operations. The tags generated in...
8179570 Generating image embedded with UV fluorescent watermark by combining binary images generated using different halftone strategies  
Methods are provided for creating a fluorescent watermark within an image on a substrate, such as paper. The method involves creating a halftone image using two different halftone strategies. The...
8179559 Image forming apparatus with a substitute recording medium for an unavailable recording medium and method thereof  
Methods and apparatuses for forming images on recording media of different sizes are provided. The image forming procedure may include reading setting information which includes the size of a...
8179568 Minimizing dot graininess in dot-on-dot printing devices  
What is disclosed is a novel system and method for minimizing dot visibility in color marking devices capable of dot-on-dot printing. The present method achieves minimum dot visibility for a given...
8179565 Document color and shades of gray optimization using outlining  
Methods, apparatus, software, and systems of the present invention allow for optimization of color and shades of gray documents prior to their conversion to a monochrome format. If color/gray...
8179571 Apparatus, method and program for processing an image  
An image processing apparatus includes a comparison unit, a change unit, and a printing unit to perform variable printing in a form of a composite of a master page and a variable page. The...
8174730 Printing control device, printing system and printing control program  
In Step S230, an ICM P3a1 calculates an ink amount set φ capable of reproduction of the same spectral reflectivity R (λ) as a target spectral reflectivity Rt (λ) indicated by a spectral re...
8174724 Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program  
Input raster image data is divided into objects of each attribute. The division results, and charge information representing a consideration accrued from a vectorized process for the division...
8169657 Registration method using sensed image marks and digital realignment  
A method of registering a print between print stages in a printing system is provided. The method comprises: printing a first part of a digital image on a substrate with a first print engine,...
8169661 Method and system for scanning papers and documents presenting printed information in black & white and in colored formats  
The present invention is a scanning method and system in which the colored information as well as the black & white information appearing on the individual page or upon multiple pages of a document...
8169630 Methods and apparatus for analyzing electronic documents and digital printing systems  
Methods and apparatus are provided for receiving a PDL File that describes a print job, processing the PDL commands in the file, identifying print settings and printer factors that may affect the...
8169662 System and method for reducing print delays for print jobs  
There is disclosed a printing system for processing an electronic document with an original stream having at least two printing related instructions. Responsive to reading the at least two printing...
8164791 Image recording apparatus and method  
An image recording apparatus includes: a recording head having plural recording elements; a characteristics information acquisition device; a correction calculation device which corrects image data...
8164787 Thermal transfer recording device and image formation method  
A control section 11 of an image data generation apparatus 1 of a thermal transfer recording apparatus S performs resolution conversion processing, gradation conversion processing, CMYK separation...
8165388 Neutral pixel detection in an image path  
A system and method for pixel and object level neutral detection. An image is scanned into a plurality of pixels. A local pixel of interest is identified along with a neighborhood of pixels around...
8164794 Image-forming apparatus and method for adjusting total amount of toner in trap  
The present invention provides an image-forming apparatus capable of reducing the amount of toner at a position at which the trapping is carried out. The apparatus has an image-deformation...
8164792 Printing device, printing method, and program  
A printing device includes a controlling section that converts visible information, expressed using biaxial orthogonal coordinate data, into polar coordinate data, and binarizes the polar...
8159717 Image processing apparatus  
Combining section 21 creates the composite image data by combining the image data of the original image and the additional image, and log management section 22 stores the condition of composite...
8159722 Image forming apparatus and image forming method  
An image forming apparatus capable of accurately compensating an increase or decrease of a toner area coverage resulting from shifting that is performed to correct skew is provided. A color density...
8159719 Method for correcting the gray balance of a printing process  
A method for correcting gray balance of a printing process includes imaging printing forms assigned to color separations with a test form, printing a printing material using the printing forms in a...
8159718 Image processing to determine if pixel in compressed data is chromatic or achromtic based on selection threshold  
An image processing apparatus includes a decision unit which decides a color selection threshold based on received compressed data from external apparatus, and a determination unit which determines...
8155475 Method and apparatus to facilitate transforming grayscale level values  
An image processing apparatus (800) partitions (101) an image into a plurality of blocks. For a selected one of these blocks, the apparatus then uses a given available range of grayscale level...
8155445 Image processing apparatus, method, and processing program for image inversion with tree structure  
The present invention relates to an image processing method, an image processing apparatus and an image processing program for dealing with inverted characters (outlined characters) constituted by...
8154778 Systems and methods for color correction processing and notification for digital image data generated from a document image  
Systems and methods for generating color corrected digital image data from a document image according to personal preferences of an identified user of the digital image copy. A color correction...
8154763 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...
8154766 Image processing device, image forming system, image forming method and computer readable medium storing program  
An image processing device includes plural image processing units that perform image processing on print data; a delivery unit that delivers a whole set of print data formed of plural segments to...
8149439 Method and system for aggregating print jobs  
There is provided a computer implemented method of automatically aggregating multiple print jobs. The method includes: storing, in memory, a first print job group complying with a first set of...
8149456 Color processing method and image forming apparatus for creating a color separation table  
Restriction information on a total colorant amount for a medium is obtained. Patches at grid points in a color space corresponding to a plurality of colorants at which the total colorant amount...
8149432 Information processing apparatus, method, and recording medium storing program for modifying print instructions  
An information processing apparatus that can be connected to an image-forming apparatus, a method, and a program used for the information processing apparatus are disclosed. The information...
8149461 Image processing apparatus and method to compensate for displacement of different printing positions in different colors  
An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit; an edge detecting unit; a transparency setting unit; an image data generating unit; and an instruction unit. The acquisition unit...
8149459 Mapping an out-of-gamut color to a surface of a color gamut  
What is disclosed is a system and method for mapping an out-of-gamut spot color to a surface boundary of a target color gamut of a color marking device in a color management system. The present...
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System and method for characterizing color separation misregistration
 
A system and method is provided for characterizing color separation misregistration associated with marking a substrate. The method includes providing an input image having a plurality of patches,...
8144355 Method and apparatus for improving raster image processing performance for variable information printing having reusable objects  
A method receives, at a processor of a printing apparatus, a variable information print job. The variable information print job is processed into upper planes of the record-specific objects, upper...
8144368 Automated methods for distinguishing copies from original printed objects  
This disclosure describes methods for using embedded auxiliary signals in documents for copy detection and other applications. In on application, the auxiliary signal is formed as an array of...
8139266 Color printing control device, color printing control method, and computer readable recording medium stored with color printing control program  
The color printing control device outputs color material reduction processed data generated by applying a color material reduction process to each pixel of bitmaps converted to color material...
8139268 Image processing apparatus and image processing method of generating monochrome image data from two color components  
A color document is scanned using sensors of two color components, and monochrome image data is generated by performing a color conversion process on color image data made up of two color...
8139245 Managing the processing of print data at printing devices based upon available consumable resources  
An approach is provided for managing the processing of print data at a printing device based upon available consumable resources. A printing device includes a print process configured to determine...
8139891 System and method for structure enhancement and noise reduction in medical images  
A method and system for structure enhancement and noise reduction of medical images using adaptive filtering is disclosed. The method utilizes feature estimation methods to determine multiple...
8139252 Image forming system and image forming method  
There is described an image forming system, which makes it possible to speedily implement the reprinting operation, and to alleviate the burden of the printer controller. The system includes a...
8134724 Policy based system and method for optimizing output device submission, use and wait times  
Disclosed is a system and method for optimizing submission of output jobs to a network of output devices, using an output job manager to assign jobs to devices. The assignments are done...
8136120 Methods and systems of reconciling sources of print job processing information in a print processing environment  
A method of processing a print job in a document production environment includes receiving a job ticket having job ticket parameters, identifying a process plan template having processing...
8130409 Image forming apparatus  
The image forming apparatus includes image forming device for forming an image, switching device for switching resolution of an image formed by the image forming device, processing device for...
8130415 Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and control method thereof, which form an image by applying N-ary processing  
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...
8131070 Color processing apparatus, color processing method, computer readable medium and computer data signal  
A color processing apparatus includes an image signal acquisition section, a color component preservation section, a first color conversion section, a color gamut compression section and a second...
8130418 Image processing apparatus and image processing method  
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus having an image readout sensor that is provided with a plurality of pixels that optically read out an image, and a driving unit that...
8125691 Information processing apparatus and method, computer program and computer-readable recording medium for embedding watermark information  
A watermark information embedding apparatus generates a document image from electronic document data that has been input thereto, modifies the electronic document data based upon the document image...
8125693 Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image forming method, image processing program, and recording medium  
Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that receives image data scanned by first and second image scanning units and performs various image processing. The apparatus includes first and second...
8120790 Method and system to allow printing compression of documents  
A print compression method and system reduces the amount of space required to print a document such that less paper is used during the printing of a document. A user defines criteria, which is used...
8120815 Image processing method and image forming device for generating profiles for color reproduction  
An image processing method is provided. The image processing method includes: generating profiles for color reproduction, classified for each of recording papers, from at least one of particular...
8115977 Document color and shades of gray optimization using monochrome patterns  
Methods, apparatus, software, and systems of the present invention allow for optimization of color and shades of gray documents prior to their conversion to a monochrome format. If color/gray...