Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Akio Matsubara

Junichi Hara

Hiroyuki Sakuyama

Taku Kodama

Hayashi Taniguchi

Toshio Miyazawa

Takayuki Nishimura

Nekka Matsuura

Koji Kobayashi

Noboru Murayama

Yasuyuki Nomizu

Toshiharu Murai

Takanori Yano

Yasuyuki Shinkai

Tamon Sadasue

Yutaka Sano

Maiko Takenaka

In an image processing apparatus, an encoding unit encodes a processed image; a determining unit determines whether a reference pixel has been subjected to the image processing; and a decoding unit decodes, when the determining unit determines that the reference pixel has been subjected to the image processing, a piece of rectangular block code data of a rectangular block thereby acquiring a second decoded image. The encoding unit refers to, when the determining unit determines that the reference pixel has been subjected to the image processing, the processed image and encodes the second decoded image.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product

An image processing system includes a plurality of clients, a plurality of servers, and a computer. The computer includes a user application and a multi-target controller. The user application interactively operates with a user. The multi-target controller causes the plurality of clients to synchronously access the plurality of servers in response to a request from the user application, acquire from the plurality of servers a plurality of pieces of target data corresponding to a plurality of sub-regions in a draw region of the user application, and expand the plurality of pieces of target data into a plurality of pieces of draw data. The multi-target controller further combines the plurality of pieces of draw data returned from the plurality of clients into single draw data and passes the single draw data to the user application.

Image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium

A code transforming apparatus inputs therein a first codestream of a target file, and outputs a second codestream transformed from the first codestream. In the code transforming apparatus, a BOX decomposing unit extracts BOX information from the first codestream. A sharing/referencing determining unit determines whether sharing process or referencing process is to be performed on the BOX information. A sharing/referencing processing unit performs the sharing process or the referencing process on the BOX information based on a determination result from the sharing/referencing determining unit. The sharing/referencing processing unit can specify a logical set of codes on a referenced side as a unit of reference for referencing an incremental codestream.

Code transforming apparatus and code transforming method

An image processing apparatus includes a determining unit that determines at least one embed area in an area that is not accessed by an application in an image. An embedding unit embeds at least one piece of embed information into the embed area. A quantizer quantizes the image embedded with the embed information. An encoder encodes the image quantized.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product

A server deletes a mask object in a structured text as a part of a shared text. A client issues a mask object constituting each layout object of the structured text, according to the authority of the client, and adds the mask object to the shared text data from which the mask object received from the server is deleted. With this arrangement, information written in the shared text is made unreadable according to the authority of the user of the client, thereby achieving access control to a part of the shared text.

Server, client, and method of storing shared text data

An image processing apparatus includes: a block decompression unit that decompresses, block by block, a compressed code formed of a plurality of blocks into which image data is divided, where the compressed code is encoded block by block; and a rendering control unit that causes a code to be decompressed and rendered on a display unit, where the code corresponds to at least one of the blocks which one is renderable in the rendering region of the display unit.

Image processing and display scheme for rendering an image at high speed

An apparatus for coding and decoding includes a decoding unit which decodes compressed and coded data to restore original image data, a storing unit which stores additional information other than the image data in memory, and a coding unit which encodes at least a portion of the additional information stored in said memory as information additional to the image data when performing second-time encoding of the image data decoded by said decoding unit.

Coding and decoding of image data with additional information

An image processing apparatus includes a decompressing unit decompressing image data having a first data compression format, an obtaining unit obtaining a second data compression format that is applicable for decompression by another image processing apparatus, a re-compressing unit re-compressing the decompressed image data with the second data compression format obtained by the obtaining unit, and a transmitting unit transmitting the re-compressed image data to the other image processing apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, program, recording medium, and data decompression method

An image decompressing system includes the processes of: a) determining a size of a decompressed image; b) determining a decomposition level to which decomposition-level-type inverse wavelet transform is performed; and c) decompressing given wavelet transform coefficients to the decomposition level determined by the step b), wherein the step b) determines the decomposition level such that wavelet transform coefficients in the thus-determined decomposition level have a size equal to or nearest to the size of the decomposed image determined by the step a).

Image decompression from transform coefficients

In a still image decompression process, operations of respective parts of a still image decompression apparatus are controlled so as to limit the operations into those such that a decompressed image on a specific LL subband is obtained.

Image decompression apparatus and method

The improved image compression method and system optimizes a wavelet transform compression technique by further compressing the transformed data by an edge operation before encoding by a conventional technique.

Methods and systems for optimizing image data compression involving

A method and system for automatically determining a compression method to be used on a file. A histogram of the file is constructed in order to determine if there are a predetermined number of consecutive byte patterns below a set threshold. If this condition exists, the file is not an image file and compression can be performed using the lossless Lempel-Ziv compression method. If, over the range of the histogram, the file is above the predetermined threshold, the histogram is examined to determine if the average value in the histogram is in a central portion of the histogram. If it is not, the file does not represent an image and again, the Lempel-Ziv compression method is used. If both the byte patterns and the histogram exceed the predetermined threshold and the average of the histogram is in a central portion, the file is determined to contain an image. Based on the gradation or number of bits necessary to represent the byte patterns of the file, an appropriate image compression method is used to compress the file.

Method and apparatus for selecting compression method and for

A communication control unit controls communication between a terminal and a communication network employing a multi-conjunction architecture, and comprises a transmitter/receiver for transmitting and receiving a signal to and from the communication network, a switch part for enabling signal transmission and reception between the terminal and the communication network through the transmitter/receiver in a first state and for disabling the signal transmission and reception between the terminal and the communication network through the transmitter/receiver in a second state, and a control part comprising a signal detecting circuit for detecting whether or not a signal received from the communication network through the transmitter/receiver is intended for the terminal coupled to the communication control unit. The control part controls the switch part to the first state when the signal detecting circuit detects that the signal received from the communication network through the transmitter/receiver is intended for the terminal coupled to the communication control unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Akio Matsubara