Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Osamu Iinuma

Naoki Ito

Shinichi Kato

Reiji Misawa

Tsutomu Sakaue

Yoichi Kashibuchi

Takeshi Namikata

Junya Arakawa

Hiroshi Kaburagi

Shinji Sano

Manabu Takebayashi

Ritsuko Otake

Asako Sugahara

Masanori Matsuzaki

Kazuhiko Ushiyama

Mitsuru Uzawa

An object of the present invention is to appropriately control a display relating to charging accompanying printing processing in accordance with the situation on the side of a printing apparatus in an information processing apparatus that is connected to the printing apparatus. The present invention is an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a printing apparatus that is specified as an output destination by a user and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to present charging information relating to printing based on the acquired information on a printing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus and method performing printing to a printer with a charging function

In a case where one of setting information relating to image adjustment and setting information relating to stepwise charging is changed, an influence that is exerted on the other is immediately checked. A corresponding information processing apparatus includes a first reception unit configured to receive an image adjustment setting value that specifies a degree of adjustment processing for image data, and a second reception unit configured to receive a setting value in stepwise charging in which a charging amount increases stepwise as a toner consumption amount increases, and in the information processing apparatus, in the case where one of the received image adjustment setting value and the received setting value in stepwise charging is changed, the other is changed in accordance with the changed value.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and medium with adjustment level setting and charging level setting

An image processing apparatus includes a determining unit to determine whether or not a white character exists inside a graphics object. In a case when recording material saving processing is instructed and the determining unit determines that the white character exists inside the graphics object, a conversion unit converts the character so as to increase the density thereof and converts a region other than the character inside the graphics object so as to decrease the density thereof. An image forming device forms an image based on the conversions performed by the conversion unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium that determine whether a white character exists inside a graphics object and convert density information accordingly

An image processing apparatus which decorates color data contained in color image data with different decoration patterns for respective colors of the color data to output the color data includes a determination unit which determines a combination of a color of color data having a highest number of pixels among colors of color data contained in the color image data and a decoration pattern having a lowest number of pixels among the decoration patterns and a monochrome decoration output unit which decorates color data contained in the color image data in accordance with a combination of a color and a decoration pattern corresponding to the color determined by the determination unit for monochrome decoration output of the color image data.

Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for executing image processing and performing decoration processing

An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided for allowing a user to achieve a desired image quality while controlling toner consumptions. An amount of toner reduced is calculated based on a set toner reduction rate. For objects other than an object specified as an excluded object to which toner reduction is not applied, a toner reduction rate for achieving the calculated amount of toner saved is calculated.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program performing color material reduction processing on objects

This invention provides an apparatus and method capable of strictly keeping to a preset toner consumption amount and maintaining an image quality the user wants. A target toner save value used in toner save processing is set. In accordance with the set target toner save value, toner save processing is performed for data of the first page of image data formed from a plurality of pages. A toner save amount before and after toner save processing is calculated, and the difference value between the calculated toner save amount and the set target toner save value is calculated. Target toner save values for data of Nth and subsequent pages (N is an integer of 2 or more) of the image data formed from a plurality of pages are decided based on the calculated difference value of the target toner save value.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method with reduced color material usage

An image forming apparatus not having a spot color printing function and connected a network cannot print out a proper image from image data which is already processed for spot color and stored in an image forming apparatus having a spot color printing function. When the image data subjected to the spot color process is stored in the image forming apparatus having the spot color printing function, difference information is stored together with the image data subjected to the spot color process. In order to print the data by a four-color output type of image forming apparatus not having the spot color printing function, the data is restored into four-color image data on the basis of the difference information, and the four-color image data is transmitted to the image forming apparatus not having the spot color printing function.

Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus connected via a network to a plurality of image forming apparatuses that implement a first gradation correction, or a second gradation correction. The image processing apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select the first gradation correction or second gradation correction, for each of the connected plurality of image forming apparatuses, an instruction unit configured to send an instruction to an image forming apparatus for which a first gradation correction has been selected by the selection unit, a reading unit configured to read out patch patterns that have been printed by the image forming apparatus for which the second gradation correction has been selected, and a transmission unit configured to transmit data for correcting readout values of the patch patterns to the image forming apparatus for which the second gradation correction has been selected.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium

A problem that setting (setting the kind of a paper or a printout method) for achieving the print effect (gloss effect or matte effect) at a maximum is very complicated and therefore, a manual setting thereof by a user is very difficult. When image data which a user desires to print and a desire for a print effect to transparent form image data are input, the paper type, conversion of the transparent form image data and a printout method for realizing the print effect are automatically set and printed out.

Image forming device

An image forming apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether printing is designated to be performed using a transparent recording agent with respect to an area to be printed with a color recording agent having a density lower than a threshold among areas included in input image data, and a printing unit configured to perform printing by transferring the color recording agent and the transparent recording agent to a sheet and fixing the color recording agent and the transparent recording agent to the sheet by a single fixing process to form an image of the area if the determination unit determines that the printing is designated to be performed using the transparent recording agent with respect to the area to be printed with the color recording agent having the density lower than the threshold.

Image forming apparatus, control method, and medium for performing printing with a transparent recording agent

A data communication apparatus which is capable of preventing reception of undesired data by a destination without increasing the load on a network, etc. Data and a destination thereof are input. A sender ID related to a sender who sends the input data is input. The input data is sent to the input destination. A sender ID for data transmission to the input destination is permitted is stored as a permission ID. The input sender ID is collated with the stored permission ID. Whether to permit data transmission is determined according to the collation result.

Data communication apparatus, data communication method, data communication program, and storage medium storing the program

An image processing apparatus extracts an area for each color from an illustration area, specifies an area that is in contact with the boundary of the illustration area, extracts a color around the illustration area, determines whether or not the extracted color around the illustration area is the same as the color of the specified area, and processes vector data that represents an area that has been determined as having the same color.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and medium storing program thereof

There are cases in which an effective search index cannot be provided to an image data only by extracting character codes from a character object in PDL data. An image processing apparatus of the present invention obtains image data by rendering PDL data, and extracts a character object from the image data. The image processing apparatus performs character recognition processing on the extracted character object to obtain character code information, and provides metadata including the character code information to the image data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program thereof

An image processing apparatus includes an allowable-amount-of-special-toner determining unit for determining an allowable amount of special toner from a total adhesion amount of toner of four colors including cyan, magenta, yellow, and black on an input image, a normal print-out unit for performing a normal print-out process, a two-path print-out unit for performing a two-path print-out process, a grouping unit for grouping pixels for which printing with the special toner is set into a first pixel group and a second pixel group based on the allowable amount of special toner; and a print-out-method selecting unit for selecting the normal print-out unit or the two-path print-out unit based on a percentage of the number of first-group pixels to the number of pixels for which printing with the special toner is set.

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Osamu Iinuma