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7443525 Image data processing method, image scanning apparatus, POS terminal, and electronic payment system  
Image data is processed appropriately even when there is a problem with a storage component of an image scanning apparatus. The image scanning apparatus acquires image data and stores it in local...
7420707 Printing specification method and printing specification device  
A printing specification method and printing specification device for specifying a spot color, which differs from process colors, as a substitution color, when setting the substitution color for a...
7420704 System and method for color gamut inadequacy notification  
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for color gamut inadequacy notification. In one arrangement, the system and method pertain to accessing imaging data to be printed, identifying...
7397483 Image data conversion using interpolation  
In tetrahedral interpolation suitable for data conversion implemented by digital computations, when the unit rectangular hexahedron is a regular hexahedron, no complicated multiplication is...
7369274 Color error diffusion method  
A color error diffusion method effective between a color image input device operating in one color space and a color image output device operating in another color space. The method includes the...
7369271 Image processing apparatus and its method, and control method  
An ICC profile includes brief gloss information indicating glossy/matte attribute as attribute information, however, gloss matching cannot be performed with the 2 options. In a case where embedding...
7365880 Image processing apparatus and image processing method  
An image region discrimination section in an image processing section, a characteristic signal calculation result obtained by hardware is subjected to macro-scoped correction and...
7362337 Method and apparatus for adjusting size of image  
A method for transforming an original image to a new image is provided. The original image includes M rows of original data; the new image includes Q rows of new data. The method first generates a...
7319546 Color management method  
A method of producing from a first device-dependent image data set, a second image data set matched to a real process, includes, by using inverse gamut mapping, transforming color values from the...
7312894 Color conversion apparatus  
A color conversion profile is set in the color conversion table 3 , a color converting process is performed on input data, and a conversion result is output to a color adjustment unit 2 . The...
7312800 Color correction of digital video images using a programmable graphics processing unit  
A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each frame of each video stream or track is decoded into a buffer and a color...
7307762 Image input/output control method and image input/output apparatus  
In the case in which an image processing mode is a high-speed copy mode in which follow-up control is possible, setting is made to perform “follow-up control” for setting a mode for not...
7307759 Method and equipment for automatically performing color/monochrome judging of an original  
A copier and method for automatically determining whether the original is color or monochrome and generating a corresponding copy. The copier comprises a scanner which generates RGB data from the...
7298527 Image forming apparatus and its control method, and computer program  
Input print data can assume one of a RGB color space, CMYK color space, and Gray color space. When graphic arts are principally to be printed, data of these color spaces is converted into CIE Color...
7268909 Document processing method and apparatus  
According to this invention, a document processing method of documenting image data obtained by double-sided scanning of an original containing a single-sided printed part and a double-sided...
7221475 Color image processing apparatus  
The invention relates to a color image processing apparatus and, more particularly, to adjusting means of a color tone and a sharpness. According to the invention, there is provided a color image...
7218428 Method of sequencing image data inside memory of optical scanning device  
An image data sequencing method for a memory unit inside an optical scanning device. The image data sequencing method is particularly suitable for scanning a line of pixels with each pixel...
7170633 Imaging apparatus  
In an imaging apparatus such as a digital still camera, a scene is judged with using an image data outputted from an area sensor in a preparation state in which an image displayed on a monitor...
7167268 Image processing apparatus and image processing method  
An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a receiving section which receives image data over the Internet and temporarily storing it, a printing section which prints...
7079285 Efficient rasterizing sub-system for printers  
Image content may be generated in high resolution by performing raster operations, and half-toning is then performed on the image content. Due to such a sequence, a substantially consistent image...
7075681 System and method for reducing the data volume of images  
A system and method for reducing the volume of data necessary to represent an image by utilizing tiling and masking techniques is disclosed. Initially, an image described by raster content having...
7042603 Information processing apparatus, image input apparatus, method of controlling image processing apparatus, method of controlling image input apparatus, image input system, and storage medium  
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an image input apparatus, a method of controlling the information processing apparatus, a method of controlling the image input...
7042593 Method of and device for image processing, and image forming device  
When the image processing device is a digital multifunction device, at which are provided a facsimile device application, a printer application, and the like in addition to a copier application, or...
7016091 Image pickup apparatus, storing method of image data and storage medium thereof  
In order to realize to improve safety performance of a filing system by satisfying the minimum requirement of protecting the filing system even if a shooting operation is performed in any...
7012715 Image processing apparatus  
There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image processing unit for performing image processing on an input image to produce an output image; a storing unit for storing...
6996279 Compressed storage of data items  
Storing of data items in a memory ( 31 ) is provided wherein the data items are divided into successive data pieces of decreasing significance, and the data pieces are stored in respective parts of...
6975757 Color-image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium  
Conventionally, a color-image processing apparatus, such as a computer, or the like, cannot determine whether or not color-image data stored in an image storage device, such as a hard disk, or the...
6897987 Image reading apparatus  
When an image read start command is received from a PC, an image reading unit first sequentially reads an image of an original. An output signal of the image reading unit is processed by an analog...
6882440 Printer, image processing device, image processing method, and recording medium  
The object of the present invention is to provide a printer capable of efficiently processing print data corresponding to a plurality of images in the main scanning direction, as in the case of an...
6831999 Color management architecture using phantom profiles to transfer data between transformation modules  
A color management architecture includes multiple color transform modules chainable together by a framework, with each color transform module having access to color profiles which provide data...
6731808 Compressed storage of data items  
Storing of data items in a memory ( 31 ) is provided wherein the data items are divided into successive data pieces of decreasing significance, and the data pieces are stored in respective parts of...
6704775 Facsimile image information managing system and method  
A server of a facsimile information managing system receives facsimile image information, stores it, generates index information, which refers to its storage location, transmits it, accepts a...
6625324 Apparatus and method for providing compensation bits for post image processing  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for providing extra bits for post image processing, thereby to increase the image bit depth and compensate the loss of image accuracy. The...
6532081 Weight calculation for blending color transformation lookup tables  
For blending two color transformation look-up tables, the weights used for combining the tables are designed such that transitions from one look-up table to another are smooth and do not create...
6512605 Image reading apparatus and image reading method  
An inexpensive image reading apparatus which does not need a delay buffer and which permits image inputting with an image sensor array with reduced color dislocation on character edge etc. Color...
6445466 System and method for level based image reproduction  
Provided are systems and methods for rendering a halftone image on a medium. The original continuous tone image is divided into a plurality of pixels and each pixel is representative of an area of...
6433882 Device for processing intermediate files in printer control system  
An application 11 , a printer driver 12 , and a Graphical Device Interface 13 cooperate to prepare Enhanced Meta Files for each print job. The Enhanced Meta Files do not depend on the type of...
6424428 Printing apparatus and image processing method for the printing apparatus  
In the printing apparatus according to the present invention, the central processing section determines as to whether an empty area required for loading of image data is available in a swap page...
6373595 Color data converting method  
In a virtual gamut-obtaining step, lightness, saturation, and/or hue angle of the second gamut is converted and an expanded virtual gamut including at least all of the lightness values of the first...
6339480 Print driver for a color printer  
A color printer driver binarizes continuous tone color print data stored in raster form and stores the binarized data directly into column form, without the intermediary of storage in horizontal...
6331899 Method and apparatus for automatically generating single-channel critical color transformations  
The invention described herein uses minimization techniques to find a good single-channel transformation that preserves the accuracy of critical colors. The invention takes as inputs a set of...
6307651 Image processing apparatus and method  
An image processor includes a first write device which serially inputs each of plural kinds of color component data for each pixel, and writes each color component data into a first line buffer for...
6281985 Print control apparatus, print control method, and memory medium  
A print controller includes a band memory which stores data to be output on a predetermined basis from a printer engine, and a decompressor which decompresses compressed font data to bit map font...
6246396 Cached color conversion method and apparatus  
An apparatus for converting an input image in an input color space to an output image in an output color space. The apparatus has a cache memory for storing from external memory, sparsely located...
6172761 Image processing device  
An image processing device of the present invention includes a storage for storing image data and a printer for printing images on a plurality of copies of sheets in accordance with the image data....
6141122 Data compressing method, image data memory, and method and device for expanding compressed data  
A data compressing method which can efficiently compress image data containing color data is provided. A compressed data expanding method which can expand the compressed data at high speed is...
6115150 Image data processing apparatus and image data processing process  
An image data processing apparatus is provided which is adapted to perform an image processing process suitable for each of a plurality of image modes on the basis of an output gradation reference...
6023351 Regularized printer LUT with improved accuracy  
A fully regularized printer LUT with improved accuracy is generated by measurement of color patches at a first LUT interval and measurement of color patches for critical color regions at...
6018599 Color image reading apparatus  
When a color film original is read, a shading correction or the like is executed without using a color base film. An apparatus has: an RAM 115 in which output ratios of RGB signals from an RGB...
6002543 Receiving apparatus and method for selectively receiving and recording image data in response to setting of an automatic receiving mode and reproducing image data in response to a manual instruction  
There is a receiving apparatus in which the received data is recorded by a recording head which accesses each portion of a recording medium. This receiving apparatus comprises: a discriminating...
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