Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Naoya Awamura

Hiroaki Suzuki

Yuichi Habu

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

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

An information processing apparatus include a priority information assigning unit configured to assign priority information indicating priority between a first area and a second area of a recording medium in an overlapping area of the areas to at least one of gloss-control plane data and clear plane data. The gloss-control plane data is used for specifying the first area to which a surface effect is to be applied and specifying a density value corresponding to a type of the surface effect. The clear plane data is used for specifying the second area in which a transparent image is to be formed and specifying a density value of the transparent image. The apparatus also includes a clear toner plane generating unit configured to generate clear toner plane clear toner plane data based on the gloss-control plane data and the clear plane data.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium that assign priority information indicating priority between areas in an overlapping area

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Kanagawa, Japan

Naoya Awamura