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Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium

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.
Owner:CANON KK

Electronic tag production quality control method

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.
Owner:DONGGUAN OASIS IOT TECH CO LTD

Image forming 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.
Owner:CANON KK

Real-time interactive three-dimensional (3D) scene reconstruction and simulation using neural representations

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.
Owner:NVIDIA CORP

Three-Dimensional Object Printing Apparatus And Path Generation Method

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.
Owner:SEIKO EPSON CORP

Image-forming device and method of operation thereof

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.
Owner:CANON PRODN PRINTING HLDG BV

Delivery management system, delivery management apparatus, and image forming apparatus

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.
Owner:KONICA MINOLTA INC

Print data generation device, print data generation method, printing API generation device, and printing API generation method

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
Owner:STAR MICRONICS CO LTD

Liquid discharge apparatus, liquid discharge method, and recording medium

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.
Owner:RICOH CO LTD

Image processing method, image processing device, printing system, and image processing program

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
Owner:SEIKO EPSON CORP

Image forming apparatus having toner replenishment

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.
Owner:CANON KK

Systems and methods of monitoring location labels of product storage structures of a product storage facility

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.
Owner:WALMART APOLLO LLC

Information processing apparatus, method, and program

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
Owner:CANON KK

Printing apparatus and printing method

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
Owner:SEIKO EPSON CORP

Methods for integrated resource management in a printing system

PendingUS20250291522A1Visual presentationPictoral communicationDatabaseIntegrated resource management
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.
Owner:KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC

High speed printer video interface using high definition media interface (HDMI)

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.
Owner:FERRY LTD

Control device, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for using unused signal lines in case of error in communication interface

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.
Owner:FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

Adaptive media processing command handling in radiofrequency-enabled printers

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.
Owner:ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORP

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

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.
Owner:CANON KK

Control device, inkjet recording device, control method, and program

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
Owner:CANON KK

Printing device and printing method

To solve such a problem that there is a large burden on a user for printing a code according to a type of a medium so as to prevent reduction in the quality.SOLUTION: A printer comprises: a conveyance unit which conveys a medium along a prescribed conveyance direction; a printing unit which performs printing on the medium conveyed by the conveyance unit; a reading unit which reads the medium to which printing is performed by the printing unit; and a control unit which controls the conveyance unit and the printing unit to execute first printing processing and second printing processing. The control unit, in the first printing processing, prints a code group including a first code in a first size and a second code in a second size larger than the first size to a first medium being the medium, acquires reading data being a reading result by the reading unit of the code group printed on the first medium, determines a code size adopted for the second printing processing on the basis of the reading data, in the second printing processing, prints a third code in the code size to a medium in the same type as the first medium.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Owner:SEIKO EPSON CORP

Consumables ordering system that keeps from ordering consumables when order thereof is prohibited, and orders consumables when order thereof is not prohibited, and computer-readable, non-transitory recording medium having consumables ordering program recorded thereon

A consumables ordering system includes an input device, a storage device, and a control device. The input device receives an input of an instruction of a user. The storage device contains ordering prohibition information, indicating whether ordering of consumables used in an electronic device is prohibited. The control device acts as an automatic ordering device. The automatic ordering device keeps from ordering the consumables, when the ordering prohibition information is indicating that the ordering of the consumables is prohibited, and orders the consumables when the ordering prohibition information is indicating that the ordering of the consumables is not prohibited. The automatic ordering device causes the ordering prohibition information, upon receipt of an instruction to prohibit the ordering of the consumables through the input device, to indicate that the ordering of the consumables is prohibited.
Owner:KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC

Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

An image processing apparatus (109) obtains a scanned image by scanning an image of a chart on which a test image has been printed (S405), detects an image defect included in the scanned image (S411), obtains a feature of the detected image defect (S415), and identifies a cause of occurrence of the image defect based on the feature (S416). The test image includes at least one mixed-color image of multinary colors, which are a secondary or higher-order color.
Owner:CANON KK

Color management device, color management method, and program

ActiveJP7869219B2InksVisual presentation
The color management device comprises at least one processor. This processor performs conversion between a first signal value and a first chromaticity value using a color profile. This color profile is created using a second signal value and a second chromaticity value from a color chart formed from at least one ink composition comprising a liquid crystal compound and a chiral compound. The second chromaticity value and the second signal value are each associated with an amount of the liquid crystal compound and the chiral compound.
Owner:FUJIFILM CORP

LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM

To solve the problem that detection accuracy of a position detection mark occasionally deteriorates depending on a positional relation between a position detection mark used in position detection and an adjacent image or a color of an image adjacent to the position detection mark.SOLUTION: A liquid discharge device includes a printing part for printing an inspection image, a read-out part for reading out the inspection image printed by the printing part, and an analysis part for analyzing the inspection image on the basis of the read-out result read out by the read-out part, wherein the inspection image includes a first position detection mark printed with a first color, a second position detection mark printed with the first color, and a plurality of colors of inspection patterns including a second color inspection pattern printed with a second color different from the first color, the printing part prints the second color inspection pattern at a position adjacent to the first position detection mark, and the analysis part identifies a first position of the first position detection mark in a first region, and identifies a second position of the second position detection mark in a second region narrower than the first region.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6
Owner:SEIKO EPSON CORP