Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.

Naoki Sumi

Kiyoshi Umeda

Hiroyasu Kunieda

Hiroyuki Sakai

Yusuke Hashii

Tomohiro Suzuki

Takashi Nakamura

Minako Kato

Tetsuya Suwa

Takashi Fujita

Yoshinori Kawai

Masao Kato

Fumitaka Goto

Makoto Torigoe

Okinori Tsuchiya

Manabu Yamazoe

Akihiko Nakatani

Wakako Tanaka

Takeru Sasaki

Shigeyasu Nagoshi

Nobutaka Miyake

Ryosuke Iguchi

Tohru Ikeda

Rie Kajihara

Yuki Ishida

Yuki Omagari

Keizo Mochizuki

Wei Song

Maya Kurokawa

Akitoshi Yamada

Hisashi Ishikawa

Yuji Akiyama

Shinichi Miyazaki

Yusuke Yamamoto

Hiroshi Yamashita

Yugo Mochizuki

Akihiro Fujimoto

Masaaki Obayashi

Yuto Kajiwara

Yuji Hara

Yoshinori Mizoguchi

Mitsuhiro Sakurai

Yasuo Sekizuka

Rei Kajihara

Yoshio Moriyama

An information processing apparatus generates a code for identifying images in imposition image data representing an image print region, determines candidate regions so that codes in print regions in pages represented by the imposition image data will not be printed at a same position, generates print data based on the imposition image data so that the code will be placed in at least one of the determined candidate regions. For the print data, up to a predetermined number of pages represented by pieces of the imposition image data, a print position of the code is same in a first page and a following second page. When a predetermined number of pages represented by the pieces of the imposition image data is reached, the print position of the code is different in the first page and the second page. The generated print data is output to a printing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, printing system, and storage medium

There is provided a printing apparatus including an obtaining unit configured to obtain print data in which in imposition image data in which one or more images are imposed in a print region, a code for identifying each image in the imposition image data is embedded; a determination unit configured to determine an ink color to be used to print the code by excluding an ink color satisfying a predetermined condition from candidates for the ink color to be used to print the code; and a print control unit configured to print the code based on the print data obtained by the obtaining unit using a plurality of nozzle arrays for the ink color determined by the determination unit.

Printing apparatus, control method, printing system, and storage medium determining ink color for printing code by excluding ink color satisfying a condition

A printing apparatus prints an image by applying ink to a print surface of an inclined print medium using a print head. A control apparatus for the printing apparatus acquires information on an inclination of the print surface. Based on the information, printing is controlled according to a print condition corresponding to a magnitude of the inclination of the print surface.

Control apparatus for printing apparatus, printing method, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus capable of performing a software program including a first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and performed by a processor and a second program layer with an instruction set compiled in advance by a unit other than the processor comprises a unit configured to transmit parameter information used for image processing from the first program layer to the second program layer, a unit configured to perform the image processing in the second program layer according to the parameter information, a display control unit configured to display an indicator for allowing a user to recognize that the image processing is in progress, and a unit configured to issue an instruction to control display of the indicator from the second program layer to the first program layer, the display control unit controls the display according to the instruction.

Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An embodiment of this invention solves memory shortage that occurs in enlargement processing of an image because a web application holds data of an image or the like not as binary data but as character string data. In the embodiment, a processor in an information processing apparatus executes a program including a first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and executed by the processor and a second program layer with an instruction set interpreted in advance by a unit other than the processor in the following way. That is, the first program layer draws an image, and divides and enlarges the drawn image using a memory. Image data of each of a plurality of images obtained by the division and enlargement is output from the second program layer to an external device.

Information processing apparatus that displays a print setting screen based on information of a printing apparatus in a format interpretable in a first program layer and processing method thereof

An image processing method is provided for acquiring additional information from image information obtained by shooting a printed product on which the additional information is multiplexed by at least one of a plurality of different multiplexing methods, the method comprising: attempting decoding of the additional information from the image information by a plurality of different decoding methods corresponding to the plurality of different multiplexing methods; and outputting, by a unit, the additional information successfully decoded.

Image processing method that obtains special data from an external apparatus based on information multiplexed in image data and apparatus therefor

The present invention allows reducing the possibility that an application operating in an information processing apparatus is erased from a memory upon its transfer to background. In a case where a predetermined application is executed in foreground, an OS is caused to execute predetermined processing by using a first size memory area, and in a case where the predetermined application is executed in the background, the OS is caused to execute the predetermined processing by using a second size memory area that is smaller than the first size memory area.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

An apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire main object information specifying a main object in generation of a layout image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire object correlation information specifying an object having a correlation with the main object, an extraction unit configured to extract at least one image including the main object and at least one image including the object having the correlation with the main object from a plurality of images based on the acquired main object information and the acquired object correlation information acquired, and a generation unit configured to generate, using a layout template, a layout image in which the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the main object and the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the object having the correlation with the main object are laid out therein.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

When communicating with a printing apparatus used for the print function of an application, communication with the printing apparatus is requested of a second layer constituted by an instruction set which is translated in advance to be able to execute the instruction set by a processor, in a first layer constituted by a script instruction set which is translated to be able to execute the script instruction set by the processor when executing the application and is executed. In the second layer, communication with the printing apparatus is performed in accordance with the request.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium storing program

According to an embodiment of this invention, an information processing apparatus that executes, by a processor, a program including a first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and executed by the processor and a second program layer with an instruction set interpreted in advance by a unit other than the processor has the following arrangement. That is, the first program layer holds image data to be processed in a first format. On the other hand, the second program layer holds it in a second format. When transferring image data between the first program layer and the second program layer, the format of the image data is converted between the first format and the second format.

This invention provides an apparatus use environment with higher flexibility and convenience. To achieve this, in a program including the first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and executed by a processor and the second program layer with an instruction set compiled in advance by a unit other than the processor, this invention controls to perform communication between an external device and the first program layer via the second program layer.

Apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A drawing unit configured to draw a print target content is instructed to draw a content and a predetermined element. Based on a notification from the drawing unit, which corresponds to the drawing instruction and has been made regardless of completion of drawing to the instruction, drawn data is acquired from the drawing unit. If the acquired data includes the predetermined element, a print apparatus is caused to execute printing based on the acquired data. If the acquired data includes no predetermined element, data is acquired from the drawing unit again without causing the print apparatus to execute printing based on the acquired data.

Information processing apparatus that executes printing based on whether drawn data includes data for a predetermined element, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for controlling display of an indicator

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Naoki Sumi