Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

International Business Machines Corporation

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Japan Science and Technology Agency

The University of Tokyo

Chiyoda Corporation

Shibaura Kenki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroaki Suzuki

Hiroo Kitagawa

Makoto Yoshida

Hideo Asano

Yuichi Habu

Manabu Komatsu

Toshiki Morimoto

Itsuo Sasaki

Yuji Tokushima

Itsuo Yukie

Takashi Yoshikawa

Toshikazu Sei

Takao Matsui

Tatsuya Endo

Naofumi Ueda

Naoya Awamura

Kenji Kuroki

Shoji Takeuchi

Ryonosuke Miyazaki

Toshihiro Mochizuki

Etsuo Morimoto

Makoto Takase

Hiroki Kubozono

Haruo Andoh

Yasunobu Umemoto

Takuma Takamizawa

Shougo Ohneda

Shinya Kobayashi

Tadahiro Kuroda

Yasoji Suzuki

Tadashi Kasai

Makoto Yasuda

Motohiro Asano

Kimio Ueda

Isao Yoneda

Masato Iio

Takahiro Yagishita

Kenji Matsuo

Kenji Okada

Hisao Shirasawa

Yukihiro Saeki

Hiroyuki Noji

Yasushi Yamaguchi

Muneaki Maeno

Masakazu Terao

Yoichi Sakurai

Akira Kibashi

Takashi Morimoto

Takanori Itoh

Seiji Miyahara

Yuichi Aizawa

Yuu Yamashita

Kaoru Hama

Yukinori Uchino

Ken Mitsui

Tomoyoshi Takeuchi

Michiya Kazusawa

Koji Kurachi

Atsushi Tobari

Yasuhiro Kotani

Yuji Kogusuri

Seiichi Tsuzuki

Kaoru Umemura

Hiromi Nishimiya

Youichi Satou

Kazuyuki Kobayashi

Toshiaki Douzaka

Shuji Yamada

Teruo Kobayashi

Katsumi Suda

Nobuyuki Kamimaru

Noriaki Sato

Tatsuya Endoh

Katsushi Yamaguchi

Akifumi Toki

Mitsuyuki Kunieda

Kyosuke Ogawa

Masaomi Ikeda

Hideaki Hotta

Akira Shibata

Junji Hashimoto

Tsuguaki Kowa

Satoshi Nishino

Shougo Ooneda

Masanori Kurosawa

Masakazu Kamichika

Kei Funakoshi

Teruo Hioki

There is provided a moving body risk assessment device including a moving body detection unit that detects presence or movement of a moving body within an imaging range on the basis of image information imaged in a wavelength region different from a visible region, and a risk assessment unit that assesses a risk to the detected moving body from the image information and a result of the moving body detection obtained by the moving body detection unit.

Moving body risk assessment device, and moving body monitoring system

A print control apparatus includes a generating unit that generates color image data based on gloss-control image data, the gloss-control image data containing a gloss control value for identifying a type of a surface effect being a visual or a tactile effect applied to the recording medium and for identifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium, and generates clear-toner image data based on presence or absence of at least one post processing device connected to the printing device and based on a type of the post processing device; a post-processing control unit that controls the post processing device in accordance with the presence or absence of the post processing device connected to the printing device and the type of the post processing device; and an output unit that outputs the clear-toner image data.

Print control apparatus, image forming system, print control method, and printed-matter manufacturing method

A print control apparatus includes a generating unit that generates clear-toner plane data based on gloss-control plane data, which contains a gloss control value for specifying a type of a surface effect being a visual or a tactile effect applied to the recording medium and for specifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium, and clear plane data, which contains a density value for specifying a transparent image other than the surface effect; and an outputting unit that outputs the clear-toner plane data. When a region where the gloss control value is specified in the gloss-control plane data and a region where the density value is specified in the clear plane data overlap each other, the generating unit sets a value of the clear-toner plane data to the gloss control value or the density value, based on a predetermined condition.

Print control apparatus, printing system, and print control method

A printing control device includes a toner-scattering prevention plane generating unit that generates toner-scattering prevention plane data indicating that clear toner is applied to an outline drawing that is identified from target data for print; and an image-data generating unit that generates image data that includes the outline drawing by using the toner-scattering prevention plane data.

Printing control device and printing control system that generate toner-scattering prevention plane data

An information processing apparatus includes an input unit that receives specifications of a color, a type of a surface effect that is a visual or a tactile effect, and a region to which the surface effect is applied, with respect to input image data; a generating unit that generates color data and gloss control data based on the specifications, the gloss control data being data which is used for generating clear toner data and in which a gloss control value is specified for identifying the type of the surface effect applied to the recording medium and for identifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium; and a sending unit that sends the color data and the gloss control data to a print control apparatus.

Information processing apparatus generating gloss control data

An extractor extracts a gloss control value unused in first gloss control plane data. A conversion table generator generates a conversion table defining a special color density value corresponding to the extracted gloss control value. A second surface effect conversion table generator generates a second surface effect conversion table obtained by registering, in the first surface effect conversion table, definition information for the special color image specified by the special color density value in the conversion table in association with the gloss control values in the conversion table. A second gloss control plane data generator generates second gloss control plane data in which the special color density value in the clear plane data is converted into the corresponding gloss control value in the conversion table. A clear toner plane generator generates the clear toner plane data based on the second surface effect conversion table and third gloss control plane data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system for generating clear toner plane data

A print controlling apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives input data including: gloss control plane data indicating a surface effect type to be achieved on the recording medium with certain density information; and table identifying information for identifying a surface effect selection table indicating a corresponding relation between the surface effect type and the density information used to generate the gloss control plane data; an acquiring unit that acquires an independent data portion indicating a portion corresponding to the surface effect type capable of being achieved independent from competence of the printing apparatus, out of the surface effect selection table identified by the table identifying information included in the input data from an external device; and a generating unit that generates the clear toner plane data using the independent data portion acquired by the acquiring unit.

Print controlling apparatus, image forming system, and computer program product

A print control apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store therein a plurality of surface-effect selection tables for respective pieces of recording medium information on a recording medium. Different types of same surface effects are registered in each of the surface-effect selection tables. The print control apparatus also includes a determining unit configured to determine a surface-effect selection table corresponding to a piece of recording medium information from the storage unit; an image data generating unit configured to generate image data based on the determined surface-effect selection table and based on gloss-control plane data in which a type of a surface effect to be applied to the recording medium and an area of the recording medium to which the surface effect is to be applied are specified; and an output unit configured to output the image data.

Print control apparatus, print system, and medium which operate using gloss effect information

A storage unit stores a surface effect selection table in which density values, types of the surface effects, and types of linkage effects as other surface effects related to the types of the surface effects are associated. A reading unit reads the types of the surface effects and the types of the linkage effects corresponding to the density values specified in the first gloss control plane data from the surface effect selection table when type information indicatse test printing. A first generating unit generates second gloss control plane data specifying the types of the surface effects and the gloss regions specified in the first gloss control plane data, and the read types of the linkage effects corresponding to the types of the surface effects and linkage regions. A second generating unit generates special color colorant plane data used by an execution unit from the second gloss control plane data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system

A print control apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives print data containing gloss-control-plane image data indicating gloss control values for identifying a type of surface effect and a region where the surface effect is to be applied, a storage unit which stores information containing multiple total-amount control modes and stores surface-effect choice information which defines, for each of the gloss control values, the surface effect type, a total-amount control mode, and a priority level of the total-amount control mode, a generating unit which generates transparent-developing-material image data indicating pixel-by-pixel density values each depending on a transparent-developing-material recording amount, and a selecting unit which selects a total-amount control mode whose priority level is highest in total-amount control modes of surface effect types associated with the gloss control values of the gloss-control-plane image data as a total-amount control mode for use in printing the transparent-developing-material image data.

Print control apparatus, and method, for selecting a control mode for use in printing image data

An image forming apparatus that forms an image to which a plurality of various surface gloss effects are given by overlaying clear toner to be fixed for a plurality of times on a recording material on which color toner has been transferred, the image processing apparatus comprises a determining unit that determines number of times of fixing clear toner onto the recording material for each image region, according to a surface gloss effect of an image region that is indicated by input image data; and a clear-image forming unit that generates a clear toner plane for each image region having been determined that the number of times of fixing clear toner is same by the determining unit, and forms a clear image.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and image forming method

A display processing apparatus includes a first correcting unit that, based on original data containing first-type color image data that indicates a color image in each drawing area and containing first-type gloss control image data that indicates a type of gloss effect to be given to a recording medium and indicates a gloss area to which the gloss effect is to be given in each drawing area, corrects color saturation of an area in the first-type color image data that corresponds to the gloss area specified by the first-type gloss control image data depending on the type of gloss effect, to thereby generate first-type corrected image data; and a display control unit that, on a display unit, displays the first-type corrected image data as a print preview of a projected printing result of the original data.

Display processing apparatus correcting color saturation due to gloss, image forming system, and computer program product

A printing control apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a storing unit, a replacing unit, and a generating unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire apparatus configuration information of a printing apparatus that forms an image based on image data. The storing unit is configured to store therein gloss control plane data in which a type of a surface effect imparted to a recording medium and a control value for specifying an area in the recording medium, to which the surface effect is imparted, are designated. The replacing unit is configured to replace, based on the apparatus configuration information, the type of the surface effect imparted to the recording medium in the gloss control plane data with a predetermined type of a surface effect. The generating unit is configured to generate the image data based on the gloss control plane data subjected to the replacement by the replacing unit.

Printing control apparatus, image forming system, and printing control method which replace a type of surface effect imparted on a recording medium

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