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7634112 |
Automatic finger detection in document images
Techniques for scanning a document, such as a book, magazine, or catalog, are described in which artifacts (e.g., a hand or other body part) in the scanned image are automatically detected. When...
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7633650 |
Apparatus and method for processing binary image produced by error diffusion according to character or line drawing detection
An image processing apparatus can obtain a copy image having excellent reproducibility with a relatively simple structure of a processing unit that processes image data. The image processing...
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7630097 |
Image processing apparatus and method
An image processing apparatus including, an image processing unit that performs a first image processing on image data including one or more image constituent parts, an incompatible part detection...
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7616814 |
Determining pixels textual characteristics
Pixels are classified as text; or “non-text” by responding to accumulated luminous brightness gradients within a predetermined pixel interior. Text and non-text image characteristics rest on...
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7616331 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program
The present invention discloses an image processing method and an image processing apparatus which is capable of preventing wasteful consumption of toner and an increase in processing time when a...
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7603409 |
Providing an album to a communication terminal via a network
An information processing apparatus on a network stores data in the form of albums in each of which a plurality of data are archived, and the information processing apparatus provides stored albums...
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7570394 |
System for determining the size of an original image, such as in a digital copier
An input scanner, such as used in a digital copier, accepts original documents on sheets of any number of possible sizes within a single job. The video output of the scanner is applied to an...
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7570387 |
E-mail printing apparatus and method and E-mail printing program
The print of received E-mail is limited to prevent a large quantity of meaningless pages of the received mail from being printed. For example, E-mail is printed up to a predetermined line, or...
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7570811 |
Segmenting an image via a graph
A method is described for segmenting an image of pixels into a number of fields. A graph is constructed for representing the image. First, separating elements are constructed that are oblong areas...
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7564583 |
Methods and apparatus for reconstructing digitized images
Methods and apparatus for reconstructing digitized images are provided that include an image reconstruction path that receives a digitized image and provides a processed RGB or CMYK image that may...
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7561287 |
System and method for automatically routing and storing coded information and displaying an interaction device
A system comprising a facsimile device configured to transmit a code-associated information material, an interactive user device, and a processor. Typically, the code-associated information...
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7561289 |
Method for editing a printed page
A method of editing a printed page comprises feeding a printed page into a multifunction printer with the printed page including text and at least one handwritten edit symbol. A first electronic...
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7561300 |
Image input/output system, image-processing method and printer driver
An image input/output system obtains a print-job that includes printing-mode information and print-data, and analyzes the printing-mode information to determine whether the output mode of the...
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7561310 |
Method and apparatus for digital scanning and archiving
A new and improved method for digital scanning and archiving is disclosed herein. The method includes sorting the associated documents into separate files, placing the files onto a movable table,...
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7551299 |
Method and apparatus for handling different print data formats
A printing system operates multiple different printing pipeline stages that together convert raster formatted print data or image formatted print data into a printer swath. The raster formatted...
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7548345 |
High resolution print mode offering improved text print quality
A high-resolution printing method includes the steps of determining if a pixel of a plurality of pixels is a true black pixel and positioning the true black pixel in a predetermined column and a...
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7545992 |
Image processing system and image processing method
This present invention provides an image processing system and image processing method which can reliably transmit image information to a destination without attaching a large file which applies...
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7538904 |
System for administering readout contents, image reader device, and method for administering contents
A system for administering readout contents according to the present invention includes: an image reader device having an image read unit for reading out contents information drawn on display media...
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7538903 |
Method for scanning by using a virtual frame holder
Embodiments of a scanning method utilizing a virtual frame holder are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes using a computer drive scan program to perform a scanning preview, determining...
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7538899 |
Print terminal apparatus
The print terminal apparatus can print an image exchanged via an electronic mail without preparing any printer personally. In printing an image attached to the electronic mail that a user received...
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7532351 |
Apparatus, method and program for producing small prints
The invention provides an apparatus, method, and program for producing small prints, in which function of using an input character string for transfer at different timing is further strengthened to...
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7529007 |
Methods of identifying the type of a document to be scanned
Methods for establishing or configuring imaging device settings use the luminance and chrominance values of an original document. The document is identified as either a text document or a...
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7525694 |
Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium
An image processing system is provided that performs object-oriented image processing and collectively manages image data, image elements, and the history and state of the image processing. In this...
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7515772 |
Document registration and skew detection system
Disclosed methods and systems perform electronic registration of digitally captured images in real-time and performs accurate and robust digital image processing by analyzing the entire digitally...
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7508537 |
Centralized, automatic extraction of data from remotely transformed and transmitted forms
One or more parameters, such as time, are reported to a center using a form. The center then automatically extracts data from the form and converts it for storage and subsequent processing or...
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7505175 |
Image formation from raster data selectively processed based on PDL fill or draw commands
An image forming method for creating raster data based on image data written in a page description language, and forming an image based on the created raster data, in which different image...
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7483186 |
Pitch to pitch online gray balance calibration
A printer or other marking engine includes a marking material transfer device, such as a photoreceptor drum or belt, that includes a plurality of pitches. Each pitch receives an individual color of...
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7466875 |
Method and system for determining the legibility of text in an image
Legibility of text in an image of a page is determined by comparing a measure of the text in the page image with a measure of the page image itself. In one aspect, a measure of the text in the page...
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7466455 |
Image processing method and system for performing monochrome/color judgement of a pixelised image
An image processing system and method are provided for judging whether a pixelised image or a part thereof is a monochrome or a color image. To increase the reliability of the judgement, instead of...
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7466440 |
Device and method for communication
A product for electronic transmission of handwritten information is provided. The product comprises at least one writing area for the handwritten information, wherein the writing area comprises a...
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7457464 |
Rendering of substitute for detected indicia
A digital image is composed at a digital transmitter device from a hardcopy source. The digital image includes an optically scanned image. Indicia is detected on the hardcopy image. A substitute is...
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7453600 |
Text region identification and enhancement during color copy
There is provided a method for enhancing text reproduction by a color copier in a copy of a document that includes both text and graphic regions, the method includes creating an ink density map...
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7450262 |
Form recognizing apparatus, form recognizing method, program and storage medium
A form recognizing apparatus, a form recognizing method and a form recognizing program for easily and precisely recognizing whether or not a form including multiple pages corresponds to any of...
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7408672 |
Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image forming method
When a print key on a console panel is depressed, a main CPU confirms enlargement/reduction rate information input via the console panel, and then, performs line thinning by setting a line thinning...
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7400766 |
Image edge extraction via fuzzy reasoning
A computer-based technique for detecting edges in gray level digital images employs fuzzy reasoning to analyze whether each pixel in an image is likely on an edge. The image is analyzed on a...
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7382481 |
Image communication device, method of communicating image, program and recording medium
An image communication device transmitting image information selectively generates a transmission-result report, where the contents of the transmission-result report vary depending on selected...
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7379595 |
Manual windowing with auto-segmentation assistance in a scanning system
A manual windowing with auto-segmentation assistance method and system are disclosed that include defining manual tags to be assigned to one or more windows via a tag selection module, assigning...
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7376272 |
Method for image segmentation to identify regions with constant foreground color
The present invention is a method for image segmentation to produce a mixed raster content (MRC) image with constant foreground layers. The invention extracts uniform text and other uniform color...
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7375859 |
Method and apparatus for correcting scanning error in flatbed scanner
An apparatus and method for correcting a scanning error in a flatbed scanner, can minimize the scanning error due to deviations in position or scanning of a CCD (charge-coupled device) module by...
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7369279 |
System and method to restrict copying, scanning and transmittal of documents or parts of documents
A document-security system, methodology, resulting secured documents, and related matters, regarding establishing flexible and versatile control over the acts of scanning, copying, faxing,...
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7369713 |
Image processing apparatus and method for determining whether an image is of a vertical or horizontal writing
An image processing apparatus, including a transform unit configured to wavelet-transform image data into a set of wavelet coefficients, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the...
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7362336 |
Four color digital cinema system with extended color gamut and copy protection
A color display system including a display device for four or more visible color primaries and a processor for controlling the four or more color primaries to selectively render portions of an...
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7355744 |
Image processing method for superimposing high-resolution character data on low-resolution image data
600 dpi binary character shape data is created from 600 dpi character data inputted by a PC and written sequentially to a memory. The 600 dpi character data inputted from the PC and 300 dpi image...
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7352899 |
Realistic machine-generated handwriting with personalized fonts
There are provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include...
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7352490 |
Method and system for generating contone encoded binary print data streams
A method and system to convert an electronic image file described in a page description language containing both contone and non-contone image objects to an intermediate binary format image. The...
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7349128 |
Image scanner and peak detecting processing method of image scanner
A sheet image scanner of the present invention has plural image sensors to output electric signals by detecting optical image data that are obtained by applying a light from a light source to...
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7333247 |
Image capturing apparatus
When in single-sided capturing mode(s), because image(s) of both sides of first original sheet(s) is or are captured by first and second capturing components 10, 23, front side(s) of the...
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7330600 |
Image processing device estimating black character color and ground color according to character-area pixels classified into two classes
A character area is extracted from an original image, which is a digital image, according to a feature value calculated with respect to the original image. Pixels belonging to the extracted...
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7327884 |
Realistic machine-generated handwriting
There have thus been provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include...
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7319543 |
Image forming system
An image forming system includes a PDL job receiving unit for receiving a PDL job generated by use of a page description language, a print image forming unit for interpreting the PDL job and...
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