Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Japan Display Inc.

Fumitaka Goto

Akitoshi Yamada

Mitsuhiro Ono

Tomokazu Ishikawa

Masao Kato

Fumihiro Goto

Nobutaka Miyake

Hidetsugu Kagawa

Tetsuya Suwa

Ryosuke Iguchi

Junichi Nakagawa

Yusuke Hashii

Tohru Ikeda

Rie Kajihara

Senichi Saito

Arata Miyagi

Kentaro Yano

Okinori Tsuchiya

Akihiko Nakatani

Takashi Fujita

Ayumi Sano

Hiromitsu Yamaguchi

Yoshinori Mizoguchi

Yuto Kajiwara

Hiroyasu Kunieda

Makoto Torigoe

Shinjiro Hori

Kouta Murasawa

Shigeyasu Nagoshi

Masaaki Obayashi

Hiromitsu Akiba

Hajime Yamamoto

Maya Kurokawa

Masaaki Kabe

Akira Sakaigawa

Toshiyuki Nagatsuma

Yugo Mochizuki

Tomohiro Suzuki

Kiyoshi Umeda

Kojiro Ikeda

Kenji Shinjo

Naoki Sumi

Hiroki Uchiyama

Amane Higashi

Masashi Mitsui

Toshihiko Bekki

Hideyuki Sugioka

Masami Amemiya

Ayumi Hori

Hirokazu Tatsuno

Tsutomu Harada

Masanori Takenouchi

Hiroyuki Sakai

Eiichiro Shimizu

Katsuhiro Shirota

Hiroshi Koshikawa

Hiroaki Ogawa

Hiroshi Tomioka

Takao Aichi

Koichiro Nakazawa

Tae Kurokawa

Takashi Nakamura

Tsukasa Doi

Takeru Sasaki

Hisashi Ishikawa

Minoru Teshigawara

Yoshiaki Murayama

Minako Kato

Satoshi Azuma

Yutaka Kano

Susumu Hirosawa

Naoyuki Takasaki

Yumi Yanai

Tatsuya Yamamoto

Takeshi Murase

Makoto Fujiwara

Shozo Hattori

Tetsuya Kawanabe

Kentarou Muro

Sammy Chan

Kazuya Imafuku

Kazuya Ogasawara

Tae Nakahara

An image processing apparatus comprises an execution unit configured to selectively execute, for each pixel in each of a first region, a second region, and an intermediate region, one of a plurality of processes including first processing of generating an output value indicating that a first printing material is applied and a second printing material of a color different from a color of the first printing material is not applied, and second processing of generating an output value indicating that the second printing material is applied.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program comprising setting first, second and intermediate regions in order to execute a first processing or second processing on each pixel in the set regions

A printing apparatus heats a print medium in which color development layers that develop colors in accordance with heating are stacked in correspondence with a plurality of color. The apparatus includes a drive unit configured to drive each of heating elements of a printhead using a first pulse for preheating a predetermined color development layer, and a second pulse applied after the first pulse to cause the predetermined color development layer to develop the color, and a pulse control unit configured to, when developing a specific color, perform a control in which a pulse width of the first pulse is increased and/or a control in which the number of times of application of the second pulse is increased such that another color development layer that is not used to reproduce the specific color does not develop the color.

Printing apparatus and print control method

To prevent an insufficient development density of pixels with which a high-density image is recorded. Thermal energy to be applied to a pixel of interest is increased if a pixel immediately subsequent to the pixel of interest is one to which energy not causing heat propagation to the pixel of interest is applied.

Recording apparatus and recording method

Dot data for a boundary zone between metallic ink and color ink is changed to increase a time difference between a scan for applying the metallic ink and a scan for applying the color ink. With this change, a fusion time of the metallic ink is ensured, and the occurrence of an image defect is suppressed.

Image printing apparatus for suppressing a reduction in image quality at a boundary between a region where metallic ink is applied and a region where color ink is applied

A recording apparatus includes a recording head including a plurality of heating elements, a sheet-like recording medium formed of a plurality of laminated color-developing layers for developing a plurality of colors. A first condition is satisfied when a subsequent pixel, located at the same position as a target pixel to be recorded following the target pixel, is a pixel for developing a color of a bottom color-developing layer of the recording medium. In a case where a value of the target pixel in the image data is a predetermined value and does not satisfy the first condition, the pulse control unit controls the pulse so that a thermal energy to be applied to the recording medium by the recording head in forming the target pixel is lower than if the first condition is satisfied.

An image forming apparatus includes a print head including heating elements for applying a thermal energy to an imaging material, an operation unit configured to operate the plurality of heating elements of the print head by using a first pulse for preheating the color developing layers and a second pulse for developing the colors of the color developing layers, and a generation unit configured to, in a case where a spatial frequency of the image to be recorded based on image data for forming an image on the imaging material is lower than a predetermined frequency, generate the first pulse so that a temperature to be applied to the imaging material by the first pulse is lower than a temperature to be applied to the imaging material in a case where the spatial frequency of the image data is equal to or higher than the predetermined frequency.

Image forming apparatus and image recording method

Reduce image quality deterioration of an object area that is gazed viewed by a user in a case where information is embedded in an image. An image processing apparatus including a recognition unit configured to recognize an object within an image and a layout unit configured to lay out information relating to an object recognized by the recognition unit in an area except for an object area for the recognized object within the image.

Image processing apparatus for generating multiplexed information in which information is embedded in an image

An object of the present disclosure is to reduce the load of a user in a case where multiplexed information is embedded in an image. One embodiment of the present invention is an image processing apparatus having: a recognition unit configured to recognize an object within an image; a selection unit configured to select additional information corresponding to an object recognized by the recognition unit from among additional information stored in a storage unit; and a layout unit configured to lay out the additional information so that at least a part of an area in which additional information selected by the selection unit is embedded overlaps an area of an object recognized by the recognition unit.

Image processing apparatus, method, and program product for embedding corresponding information in an area overlapping a recognized object

A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to apply a recording agent to a recording medium, the recording agent developing metallic luster when fixed to the recording medium, a conveyance unit configured to come into contact with the recording medium and convey the recording medium, after an image to be recorded on a side where the amount of the recording agent is smaller is recorded on a first side of the recording medium, an image to be recorded on a side where the amount of the recording agent is greater is recorded on a second side of the recording medium opposite from the first side.

Recording apparatus, image processing apparatus, and recording method

Applying a metallic ink, then applying a chromatic color ink with high dye aggregability, and then applying a chromatic color ink with low dye aggregability improve the color development of the chromatic color ink with low dye aggregability.

Image-recording apparatus and image-recording method

Images are divided into image groups based on time information indicating a time corresponding to each of the images. If the number of the image groups obtained in the dividing is smaller than a predetermined number, the number of the image groups is matched with the predetermined number by increasing the number of the image groups. If the number of the image groups obtained in the dividing is larger than the predetermined number, the number of the image groups is matched with the predetermined number by decreasing the number of the image groups. At least one image included in each of the image groups obtained in the matching is laid out in a template.

Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and storage medium

An object is to attain both a high-quality metallic color representation and suppression of a reduction in life of a nozzle. The present invention is a printing apparatus including: a conveyance unit configured to convey a printing medium in a first direction; a printing unit including a metallic array in which a plurality of printing elements for applying a metallic ink including metal particles is arrayed along the first direction and a color array in which a plurality of printing elements for applying a color ink including a color material is arrayed along the first direction; a scan unit configured to cause the printing unit to scan a plurality of times in a second direction intersecting with the first direction for a predetermined area on a printing medium; and a print control unit configured to control a printing operation so as to print a metallic color image.

Printing apparatus, control method thereof and storage medium

An information processing device acquires information relating to a type of recording medium and outputs, on the basis of the acquired information, an instruction to display items for setting a color of a color metallic portion having color metallic luster, for recording an image by using a metallic ink.

Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium

In a print head, a plurality of ejection ports for ejecting metallic ink, including a solvent and particles for imparting a metallic gloss, are arranged in a predetermined direction. A plurality of printing scans are performed to the same area of the print medium to print an image on the print medium. In the printing scan, the metallic ink being ejected from the print head to a print medium while moving the print head in a scanning direction intersecting the predetermined direction. At least one of the plurality of printing scans is set as a first scan having a higher print ratio than the other printing scans.

Ink-jet printing apparatus, ink-jet printing method, and storage medium

The position of a trimming region is decided in accordance with a scene type represented by an image which is a layout target. The trimming region is trimmed at the decided position.

Image processing apparatus and method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

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Tokyo, Japan

Fumitaka Goto