1283results about "Visual presentation" patented technology

A pattern which does not appear at a flat portion in normal binarization processing is set as a code pattern, and a code formed from this pattern is attached. At this time, code attachment with little degradation in image quality is implemented by selecting an unnoticeable pattern.

The invention relates to an electronic tag production quality control method in the technical field of information, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the noise reduction of an image through a multi-scale denoising algorithm in a second image for vibration interference and dust interference, and obtaining a third image; the online detection system judges the printing quality of the electronic tag according to the OCR recognition result, and if abnormality is detected, an abnormal signal is generated and transmitted to the process control system; the process control system receives the abnormal signal, adjusts operation parameters of printing, fitting and cutting processes, ensures smooth process connection, and avoids unbalance of the production rhythm; comparing the adjusted process parameters with a preset product consistency standard, and if the parameter deviation exceeds a preset range, starting an automatic calibration module to ensure the product consistency; the operation state of the whole production process is monitored in real time through a system monitoring module, if the stability of the system is reduced, an early warning mechanism is triggered, and a maintenance signal is generated and transmitted to a maintenance system.

Disclosed is an image forming system having a first mode in which an image forming unit forms toner images and adhesive layers on sheets, and a booklet creation apparatus creates a booklet using the sheets; and a second mode in which the image forming unit forms only adhesive layers on sheets, and the booklet creation apparatus creates a booklet using the sheets. A predetermined temperature of a fixing unit that is set for heating and pressing of a sheet in the fixing unit is lower in the second mode than in the first mode.

A CO2 emission estimation system includes a CO2 emission estimator. The CO2 emission estimator calculates an estimated value of CO2 emissions from an image forming apparatus when performing a job, using a CO2 emission estimation model as a formula for estimating the CO2 emissions and settings for the job. The CO2 emission estimation model is a formula where a multiple regression expression for determining an estimated value of a power consumption of the image forming apparatus when performing the job is multiplied by a CO2 emission factor. The CO2 emission estimation model has a plurality of explanatory variables each according to a different type of setting for the job.

Various examples, systems, and methods are disclosed relating to reconstructing, segmenting, and / or simulating pipeline. A first computing system can obtain at least one object segmented from video data. The first computing system can densify the at least one object. The first computing system can simulate one or more interactions of the voxelized volume of the at least one densified object to update at least one physical attribute of the at least one object. The first computing system can generate at least one image depicting at least a portion of the at least one object with the at least one updated physical attribute.

The invention discloses an image forming apparatus and an image forming method, which can easily generate label data. The image forming apparatus includes an image acquisition unit (101) that acquires an image of a document, an area determination unit (103) that determines whether or not there is a mark area distinguished by a predetermined mark in the acquired document image, and a control unit (104) that controls the image acquisition unit (101) when it is determined that the mark area is present in the document image. A region specifying unit (104) that specifies, on the basis of an object within the marked region, a variable region into which the object can be input, and specifies, on the basis of a region outside the marked region in the document image, a fixed region indicating the format of the document; and a data generating unit (105) that generates document data on the basis of the specified variable region and fixed region.

A printing apparatus and a printing method are executed as pre-processing: determining first and second characteristic colors from first captured image data of a medium; binarizing first pattern image data having information on the shape of the pattern of the medium to generate binary image data based on the first color and the second color; generating second pattern image data by replacing the first color of the binary image data with the first feature color and replacing the second color with the second feature color; and setting a feature point on an edge of a pattern in the second pattern image data, and executing as a printed matter production process: comparing second captured image data of the medium with the second pattern image data; calculating a correction value of a feature point required to align the shape of the pattern in the second pattern image data with the shape of the pattern in the second captured image data; applying the correction value to the colored image of the pattern to deform the colored image; and performing printing of the deformed colored image on the medium which has been captured in order to generate the second captured image data.

A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes a liquid ejection head that has a plurality of nozzles ejecting a liquid toward a workpiece, a multi-joint robot that has a tip end portion supporting the liquid ejection head and causes the liquid ejection head to scan with respect to the workpiece, and a control portion that creates a printing path along which the liquid ejection head is scanned, in which the control portion generates smoothing data by performing smoothing processing on workpiece data indicating a shape of a printing surface, which is a surface of the workpiece to be printed, and creates the printing path based on the smoothing data.

The present invention relates to a method for calibrating an image forming device comprising at least one printhead comprising a plurality of nozzles arranged in a plurality of nozzle rows, the image forming device comprises a sensor unit configured to read information from a recording medium on a working area. The method enables determination of misalignment of the sensor unit by analyzing a printed reference image without the need of external reference markers. The invention also relates to an image forming device, a computer program, a non-transient computer-readable data storage medium comprising executable program code and a data stream enabling the calibration method.

The delivery management apparatus is configured to acquire information on a consumption state of one or more consumables used in each of the one or more image forming apparatuses, determine a same timing of delivery of the one or more consumables to the one or more image forming apparatuses, based on the information, generate an adjustment setting for a consumption amount of the one or more consumables, for the each image forming apparatus, based on the same timing of delivery, and transmit, to the each image forming apparatus, the adjustment setting for the each image forming apparatus. The each image forming apparatus is configured to transmit the information to the delivery management apparatus, receive the adjustment setting, and perform the adjustment setting.

To make it possible to execute merge printing by generating print data having a variable number of print elements without incorporating description required for repeatedly calling a print data generation application programming interface (API) in a program code of an application that calls the API.SOLUTION: Print data are generated using a template composed of commands of the minimum unit not including repetitions, the number of which corresponds to a variable number of print elements, and field data including data of print elements to be inserted into merge fields of application programming interface (API) call commands included in the template. A repetition range is specified from the template, a print data generation API is generated by replacing the merge fields, including repeat replacement of repetitions within the specified range, with the data of the print elements, and by executing the generated print data generation API, print data including print-related commands into which the data of the print elements have been inserted is generated.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

A liquid discharge apparatus includes multiple heads and circuitry. The multiple heads include a first head having a first nozzle array and a second head having a second nozzle array. The first nozzle array has first overlapped nozzles in one end in an array direction. The second nozzle array has second overlapped nozzles in another end in the array direction. The second overlapped nozzles are overlapped with the first overlapped nozzles in an overlapping region in the array direction. The circuitry causes the multiple heads to discharge liquid droplets to form mask pattern having both of first pixels and second pixels arrayed in the array direction in the overlapping region and intersecting pixels having either the first pixels or the second pixels arrayed in an intersecting direction intersecting the array direction in the overlapping region.

To provide a technique that enables a user to easily grasp each printing layer when a plurality of printing layers are formed.SOLUTION: An image processing method includes the steps of: (a) receiving the stacking order of printing medium and one or more printing layers; (b) displaying, on a display device, a preview image representing a state in which one or more virtual three-dimensional objects corresponding to one or more printing layers and the three-dimensional object corresponding to the printing medium are stacked and combined in the stacking order, the preview image corresponding to how the preview image appears in a three-dimensional virtual space; (c) displaying, on the display device, the preview image representing a state in which one or more three-dimensional objects corresponding to one or more printing layers and the three-dimensional object corresponding to the printing medium are stacked in the stacking order with intervals between them, the preview image corresponding to how the preview image appears in the virtual space; and (d) receiving an instruction to execute either the step (b) or the step (c), and executing the instructed step of the step (b) and the step (c).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 19

An image forming apparatus having a detachable replenishment container includes an image bearing member, a developer container, a developing bearing member to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member into a toner image by using toner accommodated in the developer container, and a replenishment port through which the developer container can be replenished with toner from the replenishment container. A restriction member transitions between an allowance state in which the replenishment container and the replenishment port communicate with each and a restriction state in which the replenishment container and the replenishment port are not made to communicate with one another.

An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit capable of providing a reception screen that receives an input of identification information of a predetermined type of part attachable to the image processing apparatus, a registration unit configured to register the identification information in response to the input of the identification information received by the reception unit, and a display unit configured to, if a number of pieces of the identification information previously registered in the registration unit has reached an upper limit on a registerable number in the registration unit and the reception unit has received the input of the identification information, display a notification screen that includes at least the identification information that is different from the identification information received by the reception unit and the identification information previously registered in the registration unit.

Systems and methods of monitoring location labels on product storage structures of a product storage facility include an image capture device that captures images of the product storage structures and a computing device programmed to analyze the images of the product storage structures captured by the image capture device to detect location labels located on the product storage structures. Based on detection that one or more location labels located on the product storage structures are associated with an error condition, the computing device generates a location label alert indicating at least one location label that requires a location label check by a worker at the product storage facility. A mobile application executable on a device of the worker at the product storage facility displays a user interface that lists location labels alerts and permits the worker to print replacement labels for product structures associated with the alerts.

To provide an information processing apparatus capable of printing a commercial material that appropriately gives an impression intended by a user.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus is configured to: generate multiple pieces of commercial material data on the basis of content of a commercial material, a designation of impression, and conditions of the commercial material; and display a commercial material image based on the generated multiple pieces of commercial material data. The commercial material image is an image represented by data specified based on the designation of the impression from a multiple pieces of data generated from the multiple pieces of commercial material data based on information of a color gamut reproducible by printing means that prints the commercial material.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

To provide a printer in which image quality is less likely to deteriorate even if halftone processing is performed using a dither mask repeatedly.SOLUTION: And a head unit that forms the output image on a medium based on a processing result of the halftone processing unit, in which a direction in which a plurality of heads discharge liquid is defined as a first direction, a direction in which the medium is transported is defined as a second direction, and a direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction is defined as a third direction. The output image includes a mixed region and an independent region, a length of the mixed region in the third direction is a first length, a length of the independent region in the third direction is a second length, and the number of elements of the dither mask in the third direction is N times or 1 / N times a total number of the number of pixels corresponding to the first length and the number of pixels corresponding to the second length.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Computer implemented method for proof-of-work for generating and validating a block of a blockchain, also denoted as consensus mechanism, using at least one printing device, wherein the printing device is configured for generating at least one digital image depending on a printer control setting, the method comprises the following steps:i) (110) providing a cryptographic hash value;ii) (112) generating at least one initial digital image (114) comprising a plurality of colored pixels (116), wherein the initial digital image (114) is generated by converting at least one part of the cryptographic hash value into color values of the colored pixels (116);iii) (118) generating a task digital image (120) comprising a plurality of colored pixels (122) different from the initial digital image (114);iv) (124) selecting a mining printer control setting (126), printing the initial digital image (114) by using the printing device by mixing and / or blending pigments with the selected mining printer control setting and scanning the printed image by using at least one scanning device, thereby generating a mining digital image having a plurality of colored pixels different from the initial digital image (114);v) (128) comparing the colored pixels of the mining digital image and the task digital image (120) by using at least one processing device;wherein the method comprises repeating steps ii) to v) until the colored pixels of the mining digital image and the task digital image (120) are found to be identical,wherein in each case in step iv) (124) a different mining printer control setting (126) is selected, wherein the mining printer control setting (126) for which the mining digital image and the task digital image (120) are found to be identical at least within tolerances is used as the proof-of-work for generating and validating the block of the blockchain.

Methods for aggregating resources enhance the management of printing resources within a printing system. A shared attribute related to printing operations is used for aggregating a set of papers within a paper catalog used for printing operations at a printing device. Changes to a feature or a printing resource for one or more papers within the aggregated set of papers is managed using the integrated resources. Printing resources include the paper catalog, calibrations, and spot color adjustments. Integrated resource management also occurs across peer calibration groups to update resources.

The system uses GPU accessible high-speed memory to store compressed or original video printer data. The system transmits the video data over one or more frames of the HDMI interface, and the circuitry reconstructs pages of video data from the one or more HDMI frames for transmission to the printer.

A printhead in a digital printing includes an array of light sources for exposing a photosensitive medium moving past the printhead. Artifacts are reduced in a high-speed print mode by defining first and a second power level control values that differ by at least 20%. The light sources used to print odd-numbered image pixels are activated responsive to the first power level control value and the light sources used to print even-numbered image pixels are activated responsive to the second power level control value.

A control device includes a first control substrate including a processor and a communication interface; and a second control substrate including a processor and a communication interface. The first control substrate and the second control substrate are connected through the communication interfaces. When occurrence of an error in data communication through the communication interfaces is detected, at least one of the processor of the first control substrate and the processor of the second control substrate performs the data communication using unused signal lines among signal lines provided in the communication interfaces.

A method in a media processing device includes: determining an attribute of a radiofrequency (RF) tag associated with a media supply; receiving a command to write first data to the RF tag; determining whether the first data and the RF tag are compatible based on the attribute; when the first data and the RF tag are incompatible, modifying the first data to generate modified data compatible with the RF tag based on the attribute; and writing the modified data to the RF tag.

The optimal replacement timing for consumable parts is set for each user. [Solution] The image forming apparatus includes a replaceable toner container 101 and a controller 109 that changes a lifespan calculation algorithm for calculating the lifespan when the toner container 101 is replaced according to the timing estimated from its lifespan.

At least one of the first notification(306) and the second notification(308) is provided via a display device, based on a fact that, by the editing of an object, an object(310) with a transmission property is overlapped on the front surface of an object(312) to be printed by use of a spot color ink, the first notification being provided for warning that the object with the transmission property is in a state of being overlapped on the front surface of the object to be printed by use of the spot color ink, the second notification being provided for asking whether or not a predetermined overlapping state in which the object with the transmission property is overlapped on the front surface of the object to be printed by use of the spot color ink is to be maintained.

A recording device includes a recording head including a first nozzle group that ejects a first ink and a second nozzle group that ejects a second ink having a color different from that of the first ink, a moving unit that relatively moves the recording head and a medium in a moving direction intersecting with a nozzle alignment direction, and a control unit. The recording head includes a first nozzle range in which a distance between the first nozzle group and the second nozzle group in the moving direction is a first distance and a second nozzle range in which the distance is a second distance greater than the first distance. In a case in which recording is performed on a medium using nozzles belonging to the second nozzle range, when recording is performed with a secondary color through ejection of the first ink and the second ink.

To inhibit deterioration of accuracy of calibration in a recording device in which a plurality of drying units dry an ink to record an image.SOLUTION: A recording device includes: transport means which transports a recording medium along a transport direction; recording means which discharges a liquid to the recording medium; and drying means which comprises a plurality of drying units disposed in a width direction intersecting with the transport direction and used to dry the liquid discharged to the recording medium. A control device controls the recording device and includes: setting means which sets areas on the recording medium, on which adjustment patterns for calibration are respectively recorded, based on information of positions at which the drying units are respectively disposed; and performing means which causes the recording means to record the adjustment patterns in the areas set on the recording medium and performs the calibration based on the recorded adjustment patterns.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 10