Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nec Corporation

University of Yamanashi

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Kyoto University

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Tokyo University of Science Educational Foundation Administrative Organization

Tdk Corporation

Jamco Corporation

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Fdk Corporation

Littelfuse Japan G.k.

Fuji Ceramics Corporation

Nec Personal Products, Ltd.

Satoshi Wada

Makoto Akahira

Hiromitsu Yamaguchi

Takeshi Yazawa

Yoshitomo Marumoto

Nobuhiro Kumada

Hiroshi Fujiike

Takashi Iijima

Yuji Konno

Takashi Ochiai

Kei Yoshizawa

Makoto Kubota

Hidetsugu Kagawa

Toshihiro Ifuku

Jumpei Hayashi

Hitoshi Tsuboi

Nobuhito Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Funakubo

Hideto Yokoi

Shingo Nishioka

Masaki Azuma

Soichiro Okamura

Junichi Saito

Naoko Baba

Kaoru Miura

Hajime Nagai

Naomi Yamamoto

Keiji Kuriyama

Serena Yoshikawa

Hisashi Ishikawa

Hidehiko Kanda

Tetsuya Suwa

Yoshinori Nakajima

Tomokazu Yanai

Takayuki Watanabe

Yoshihiro Shigemura

Tadao Saito

Keisuke Yamato

Hiroshi Tajika

Hitoshi Yoshino

Makoto Torigoe

Hiroshi Uchida

Tsuyoshi Shibata

Hisato Yabuta

Masahito Furukawa

Yumi Shimokodachi

Ryoki Jahana

Sachiko Katakura

Bong-Yeon Lee

Olga Alexandrovna Smirnova

Sayoko Oda

Kenichi Takeda

Fumihiro Goto

Takanori Matsuda

Tatsuo Furuta

Kazuhiko Sato

Satoshi Azuma

Yasunori Fujimoto

Hisashi Minemoto

Taku Yokozawa

Kenji Takashima

Hiroshi Taira

Shin Genta

Akihiro Tomida

Hiroaki Ishii

Takayuki Ushiyama

Zuyi Zhang

Noboru Kunimine

Shirou Ootsuki

Hiroshi Kawafuji

Mikio Shimada

Yoshikazu Shimura

Taku Masai

Koji Izumi

Sae Mogi

Kyohei Kikuta

Akiko Aichi

Hiroshi Aoto

Makoto Nemoto

Jumpei Jogo

Toshimitsu Kawasaki

Shinichi Sudou

Taichi Yokokawa

Tetsuo Okabe

Eri Goto

Tadashi Ishitsuka

Masanori Sano

Toshikazu Yamaoka

Shintaro Ueno

Ichiro Fujii

Yuya Hattori

Ryuta Mitsui

Makoto Akihira

Masaru Kikuchi

Takuhiro Ohgushi

Erika Ido

Hideaki Kitazume

Yohei Mizukami

Masatoshi Sakamoto

To print high-definition images, an embodiment of the present invention provides a printing apparatus including: a printing unit configured to print an image on a printing medium by applying a first liquid containing a colorant and a second liquid containing a component that causes the colorant to aggregate; a control unit configured to control the printing unit so as to print a first pattern and a second pattern differing from the first pattern in a manner of application of the first liquid and the second liquid; and an identification unit configured to identify a characteristic of the printing medium based on a first density of the first pattern and a second density of the second pattern.

Printing apparatus and identification method

A printing apparatus performs control so that out of N scans for printing an image in a predetermined region on a print medium, a total application amount of a reactive liquid printed by first N/2 scans and a total application amount of the reactive liquid printed by second N/2 scans may be different between a case where an application amount of the reactive liquid per unit area which corresponds to the predetermined region is a first amount and a case where the application amount of the reactive liquid per unit area is a second amount larger than the first amount.

Printing apparatus and printing method

An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires N-valued image data corresponding to an image including at least one object, and edge data indicating an edge area of the object, an image processing unit that generates M-valued (N>M≥2) quantized data where each of a plurality of pixels is associated with one of a value indicating that no dot is to be recorded and a value indicating that a dot is to be recorded, based on the acquired image data, using an image processing parameter, and a changing unit that changes at least one pixel among pixels that indicate the edge area of the object in the edge data and have the value indicating that no dot is to be recorded in the quantized data so that the at least one pixel has the value indicating that the dot is to be recorded.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for improving the quality of printed edges

An inkjet printing apparatus includes a printhead in which a plurality of ejection ports that eject ink are formed, a carriage mounted with the printhead and reciprocated in a predetermined direction, a conveyance unit to convey a print medium, a platen to support, at a printing position, the conveyed print medium, and an obtaining unit to obtain information regarding a distance from an ejection port surface of the printhead to the print medium at positions in the predetermined direction. The apparatus controls an ink ejection timing in accordance with the information regarding the obtained distance and information corresponding to the number of passes of printing, which is the number of times of moving the carriage to print the image in a unit area of the print medium.

Inkjet printing apparatus and control method thereof

To provide a technology capable of appropriately suppressing deterioration in cutting accuracy of a slitter although the rigidity of a print medium changes, a printing apparatus is equipped with: a first conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium; a printing unit configured to print an image by applying ink to the print medium conveyed by the first conveyance unit; a cutting unit disposed on a downstream side in a conveyance direction in which the print medium is conveyed by the first conveyance unit and configured to cut the print medium, which is conveyed by the first conveyance unit, along the conveyance direction; and a second conveyance unit disposed on the cutting unit, and the printing apparatus includes a correction unit configured to correct a parameter related to conveyance of at least one of the first conveyance unit and the second conveyance unit, based on information about the print medium.

Printing apparatus, control method, and conveyance apparatus

A printing apparatus includes an image processing unit and generates a product by performing printing on a print medium conveyed in a conveyance direction intersecting a width direction, based on data for printing, and then cutting a width-direction end portion of a printed image, wherein the image processing unit calculates a first ink application amount of a first area formed at one end portion in the width direction on a leading edge side of the image which is located on a downstream side in the conveyance direction during printing and a second ink application amount of a second area formed at the other end in the width direction on the leading edge and enlarges the image data at a predetermined ratio to obtain the data for printing in a case where at least one of the first ink application amount and the second ink application amount exceeds a threshold value.

Printing apparatus and image processing apparatus

Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a derivation unit configured to derive a target luminance characteristic based on a viewing condition of an image and a print luminance characteristic predicted based a reflection characteristic corresponding to data thereon; a unit configured to generate print image data on an image by converting input image data by using a tone conversion characteristic that is set based on these characteristics, in which the derivation unit derives, in a case where a reproduction range of an illumination intensity in the print luminance characteristic is different, the target luminance characteristic so that a liner area of an output luminance in a case where the reproduction range is relatively large becomes large.

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

Luminance data indicating luminance of the print product illuminated by the lighting is calculated and processing for causing a high luminance region to have gradation characteristics is performed.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for generating preview image data to be displayed on a display

First quantization data for printing by the first nozzle group and second quantization data for printing by the second nozzle group are generated based on multi-valued data. By use of mask patterns, first print data and second print data are generated based on the first quantization data and the second quantization data. The first mask pattern for generating first print data and the second mask pattern for generating second print data are formed so as to include a pixel in which printing of a dot is allowed in both and a pixel in which printing of a dot is not allowed in both. The pixel value of each pixel indicated by the multi-valued data has a correlation with the sum of the number of dots indicated by the first print data and the number of dots indicated by the second print data in the area corresponding to each pixel.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

A composite structure including a conductor region that is configured from a first oxide, and an insulator region that is configured from a second oxide and that surrounds the conductor region, wherein the first oxide and the second oxide are in hetero structure with each other. A powder and a fired body each having such a composite structure are also preferable.

Composite structure, fired body having composite structure, powder including particle having composite structure, and dielectric element including dielectric having composite structure

An illumination condition, which is used to irradiate a print product with light having illuminance higher than normal illumination, is derived based on exposure condition information at the time of photographing.

Information processing apparatus, control system, image processing system, and information processing method to derive illumination condition based on exposure condition

An image processing apparatus converts, according to light on an image printed based on input image data, the input image data into image data for illumination output superimposed on the image, includes a deriving unit deriving an observing condition, an estimating unit estimating luminance characteristics based on the observing condition and reflectance characteristics corresponding to print image data, an introducing unit introducing target luminance characteristics based on the print luminance characteristics, a setting unit setting illumination converting characteristics converting the input image data into the image data for illumination output based on the print luminance characteristics and the target luminance characteristics, and a converting unit converting gradation of the input image data using the illuminance characteristics, and the introducing unit introducing the target luminance characteristics such that, when reproducing ranges in the print luminance characteristics are different, a linear region of output luminance of relatively large reproducing range becomes larger.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program, and image display apparatus for converting image data according to light intensity utilizing observation characteristics

An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit to obtain image data and a dynamic range conversion unit to convert an input luminance signal included in the image data into an output luminance signal for an image printing apparatus by using a conversion parameter. A dynamic range of luminance of the converted image data is narrower than that of the unconverted image data before the dynamic range conversion. When the input luminance signal indicates an input black reference luminance value, the output luminance signal indicates an output black reference luminance value, and, when the input luminance signal indicates a predetermined reference input luminance value, the output luminance signal indicates a reference output luminance value, the reference output luminance value being a value calculated based on the predetermined reference input luminance value and the output black reference luminance value for observing a print product to be printed by the printing apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium that convert an input luminance signal included in image data into an output signal for printing by using a conversion parameter

An apparatus is configured to determine an illumination condition for irradiating a printed product with light. The printed product is generated by outputting an image onto a recording medium based on fed input image data. The apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive inputs of luminance dynamic range information of the input image data and exposure condition information at the time of imaging regarding the input image data, an acquisition unit configured to acquire characteristic information of the recording medium, and a determination unit configured to determine the illumination condition based on the luminance dynamic range information, the exposure condition information, and the characteristic information.

Apparatus, system, and method

Growing community of inventors

Machida, Japan

Satoshi Wada