Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Isuzu Motors Limited

Hideki Kubo

Hitoshi Fukamachi

Yoichi Takikawa

Hiromitsu Yamaguchi

Kouta Murasawa

Shugo Higuchi

Okinori Tsuchiya

Jun Hirabayashi

Sumito Tanaka

Atsushi Ushiroda

Hisashi Ishikawa

Masao Kato

Hiroyasu Kunieda

Takeru Sasaki

Yoshihito Machida

Megumi Ito

Hideki Kadoi

Kazuya Ogasawara

Tomohiro Sugano

Yoshitaka Minami

Mizue Morishita

Takahiro Suzuki

Takashi Ochiai

Yugo Mochizuki

Masashi Oya

Kimitaka Arai

Ayato Imai

Akira Shibasaki

Kyohei Kikuta

Megumi Uchino

Yukihiro Kawashima

Yingying Fan

Keiji Shimotani

Mizue Shimbaru

Yumiko Umemura

Hiroshi Yajima

A printing apparatus prints an image with a printing unit by applying, onto a printing medium, a first ink containing a fluorescent color material and a second ink containing not fluorescent color material but a resin, determines an amount of the second ink applied to a unit area on the printing medium based on an amount of the first ink applied to the unit area and luminescence information representing a luminescence intensity, and controls an application operation of the first ink and the second ink by the printing unit based on the amount of the first ink and the amount of the second ink applied to the unit area.

Printing system using fluoresent and non-fluoresent ink, printing apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and control method thereof

A printing apparatus includes a printing unit including a first printing portion to print an image by a fluorescent coloring material, and a second printing portion to print an image by a second coloring material that is not colored, and a controller to control printing of an image onto a print medium performed by the first printing portion, and printing of an image onto the print medium performed by the second printing portion. The controller controls an order of the printing by the first printing portion and the printing by the second printing portion, in accordance with an attribute of a region of an image as a printing target.

Printing apparatus and control method of the same

An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a target region, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire an output condition when outputting the target region, a selection unit configured to select texture data based on the output condition, and an application unit configured to apply, to the target region, the texture data selected by the selection unit.

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

An image processing method of holding a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image. The method includes acquiring predetermined information concerning at least one of an observation distance as a distance between a print product on which a target region is printed and an observer observing the print product, a sheet on which the target region is printed, or an environment in which the print product is observed, selecting texture data from the plurality of texture data based on the acquired predetermined information, and applying, to the target region, the texture data selected in the selecting.

Image processing method and image processing apparatus that apply selected texture data to a target region

The present invention is directed to obtaining an object having an anisotropic reflection characteristic without using a lenticular lens. A print product including a print medium on which a repetitive structure of projected portions and recessed portions is formed out of image forming materials including a color material includes a first layer formed on surfaces of the projected portions out of a first color material among the image forming materials, and a second layer formed on the recessed portions out of a second color material different from the first color material, wherein the projected portions have a height to occlude part of the second layer when observed at an angle different from an angle formed by a normal to a surface of the print medium.

Print product, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

A printing apparatus comprises a decision unit configured to decide a ratio of ink application amounts of the fluorescent ink and the other ink respectively in each of the plurality of scans. The decision unit decides the ratio of the ink application amount of the fluorescent ink in each of the plurality of scans so that the amount of the coloring material of the fluorescent ink in a surface of an ink layer of the printing medium is less than the amount of the coloring material of the fluorescent ink in an inside of the ink layer of the printing medium.

Printing apparatus and printing method

An apparatus for generating data includes one or more processors and one or more memories, the one or more memories including one or more programs. The one or more programs cause the one or more processors (a) to generate edge data for specifying an area that corresponds to an edge of a convex portion, based on data for specifying a position of the convex portion in unevenness, (b) to determine whether a height of the edge that the edge data represents is equal to or greater than a first threshold, and (c) to reduce a recording amount of a recording material for forming, on the recording medium, an area that corresponds to the edge the height of which is less than the first threshold.

Image-processing apparatus, image-forming apparatus, method of processing image, and storage medium

A printing apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to, in a case where fluorescent ink is used in printing of an image, determine an order of printing by the fluorescent ink and printing by the light emission suppressing ink that suppresses light emission of the fluorescent ink, in the plurality of scans. The determination unit determines the order of the printing by the fluorescent ink and the printing by the light emission suppressing ink such that the fluorescent ink is printed to be in a layer lower than the light emission suppressing ink in a region of a dark portion of the image.

An image processing apparatus including a first obtaining unit configured to obtain first image data to be printed, a second obtaining unit configured to obtain second image data indicating a subject identical to that of the first image data and expressed by a geometric condition different from that of the first image data, and a determination unit configured to determine ink amounts of respective inks including a first ink that reflects light in a normal reflection and a second ink that is different from the first ink and has a ratio of an intensity of light reflected in the normal reflection direction to an intensity of light reflected in the diffuse direction smaller than that of the first ink in a case where light based on brightness at each position of the first image data and the second image data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

An image processing apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories, the one or more memories including one or more programs. The one or more programs cause the one or more processors (a) to acquire first shape data that represents a three-dimensional shape of unevenness, (b) to generate edge data for specifying a first area that corresponds to an edge of a convex portion and a second area that does not correspond to the edge of the convex potion in the unevenness, based on the first shape data, and (c) to generate, based on the edge data, data to form the first area and not the second area on a recording medium.

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data representing an image generated by projecting a first image on a part of a second image using at least one projection apparatus and a control unit configured to control a presentation unit to present, to a user, an area in the second image where the first image is to be projected by the at least one projection apparatus based on the image.

Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium

To make it possible to appropriately reproduce a desired color in a case where it is desired to change hue of a specific area on a reproduced image obtained by projecting a projection image onto printed matter in an overlapping manner. In an image processing apparatus, a print image for outputting printed matter by a printer onto which a moving image in which color of an object changes in a time series is projected in an overlapping manner is generated. The image processing apparatus acquires an image at least including the object whose color changes. Then, the image processing apparatus generates the print image by performing saturation reduction processing for an area of the object whose color changes in the acquired image.

Image processing apparatus, display system, image processing method and storage medium for projecting a moving image onto printed matter in an overlapping manner

An image processing apparatus which generates data for forming a shaped object configured of at least a first layer and a second layer as layers of recording materials on a recording medium, the image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire data relating to a shape of the first layer and data for expressing a reflection characteristic of the second layer, an estimation unit configured to estimate a reflection characteristic at each predetermined area of the shaped object based on the reflection characteristic data and the shape data, and a generation unit configured to generate at least any one of recording amount data for expressing a recording amount of the recording material and dot arrangement data corresponding to dot arrangement of the recording material on the recording medium in order to form on the recording medium the shaped object having the reflection characteristic estimated by the estimation unit.

An image processing apparatus is provided for generating data used to form on a recording medium an uneven layer on which a plurality of unit areas each having a projection are arranged, including: a first obtaining unit that obtains first brightness information regarding a brightness of a predetermined area of an object observed in a first viewing direction and a brightness of the predetermined area of the object observed in a second viewing direction having an elevation angle different from that of the first viewing direction; and a first generation unit that generates first recording amount data that indicates a recording amount of recording material used to form the uneven layer on the recording medium, the uneven layer being formed such that at least one of a width of each of the unit areas and a height of the projection changes, on a basis of the first brightness information.

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