Fujitsu Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Copal Company Limited

Shigeru Arai

Toru Misaizu

Takeshi Saito

Kenji Hara

Akira Minami

Kouta Matsuo

Kazuo Asano

Masateru Sasaki

Shigenori Yanagi

Takeo Yamada

Toru Ikeda

Masahiko Kubo

Tomotoshi Ishida

Nobukazu Takahashi

Tomoshi Hara

Hiroshi Arai

Mitsuo Takahashi

Yoshihiro Sato

Toshitaka Iwamoto

Kazuhiko Kageyama

Koji Asako

Kiyoshi Obata

Nobuhiko Isato

Taro Yokose

Takayuki Kawabe

Takashi Ochi

Shinichiro Fujimori

Takashi Masaki

Hiroshi Koike

Masaomi Sakamoto

Ichiro Harashima

Shunsuke Minami

Taminori Tomita

Shun Yashima

Shinya Takaishi

Nobuya Okayama

Yasumasa Kawashima

Norihiro Nakajima

Koichi Matsubara

Koichi Ogawa

Yoshiaki Shinotsuka

Itaru Shibata

Kyoji Yagi

Shuko Saito

Junichiro Mori

Tetsu Endo

Kaori Tominaga

Kota Matsuo

Motomi Odamura

Hidenori Saitoh

Wataru Katsuhara

Shigeki Kirihara

Koichi Mitsuda

A light-emitting-device head includes a first light-emitting-device arrangement including light emitting devices arranged in lines extending in a first scanning direction; a second light-emitting-device arrangement including light emitting devices arranged in lines extending in a first scanning direction, the second light-emitting-device arrangement overlapping the first light-emitting-device arrangement in a second scanning direction at least in part; an optical device that forms an electrostatic latent image by focusing light emitted from the light emitting devices on a photoconductor and exposing the photoconductor to the light; and a switching unit that switches the light-emitting-device arrangement to be lit up between the first light-emitting-device arrangement and the second light-emitting-device arrangement at a switching position defined at any position in an overlapping portion where the first light-emitting-device arrangement and the second light-emitting-device arrangement overlap each other. The electrostatic latent image is composed of dots formed by a screening process performed with a screen having a predetermined screen angle. The switching unit defines the switching position such that when points in the electrostatic latent image that coincide with the switching position are connected to one another by a line, the line forms a zigzag shape while overlapping some of the dots, the zigzag shape including a line segment extending at the screen angle.

Light-emitting-device head and image forming apparatus with switching unit defining switching positions coinciding with dots in an image

An exposure control device includes an exposure light amount calculator that obtains, for each of correction points that are associated with a respective one of primary correction values and are separated from each other, a correction factor for correcting the primary correction value of the correction point, based on a pixel value of the correction point, calculates, for each correction point, a secondary correction value based on the primary correction value and the correction factor of the correction point, and calculates a distribution of the secondary correction values on an image based on the secondary correction values of the correction points, and an exposure controller that causes an exposure unit to form a latent image by exposure to light having a corrected light amount obtained by correcting a light amount corresponding to a pixel value of each point based on the secondary correction value of the point.

Exposure control device, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image forming apparatus includes a determination unit and a continuous tone processing unit. The determination unit determines an end of a continuous tone image part in which a density changes continuously, the continuous tone image part being included in image information. The continuous tone processing unit performs, in a case where a number of levels of density of a print image in the image forming apparatus is larger than a number of levels of density of the image information, continuous tone processing for causing a density of a pixel group in which adjacent pixels have a same density to be changed continuously when increasing the number of levels of the density in an end portion of the continuous tone image part.

Image forming apparatus and image processing method

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit in which multiple chips including multiple light emitting elements are arranged in a main scanning direction, the image forming unit forming an image on a recording medium, a reading unit that reads the image fixed on the recording medium by a fixing unit, a density specification unit that specifies a density of a region in the image for each of the chips, the region corresponding to each of the chips, a correction amount specification unit that specifies a correction amount of light quantity from the chip based on an approximate value obtained by approximating the density of a region corresponding to a chip arranged in a predetermined range from a chip for which the correction amount of the light quantity is specified, and a correction unit that corrects the light quantity in accordance with the correction amount.

Image forming apparatus that corrects a light quantity emitted from chips having light emitting elements

Provided is an image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires first image information which is image information configured of plural pixels and which includes density information for each pixel, a first correction unit that corrects pixel density based on the first image information, a storage unit that stores image information obtained after the first correction unit performs the correction as second image information, a second correction unit that performs a reverse correction so as to cancel the correction by the first correction unit based on density of a pixel of the second image information, a display unit that displays an image on a display section based on third image information which is image information obtained after the second correction unit performs the reverse correction, and a transmission unit that transmits the second image information to an image forming apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, image forming system, and image forming apparatus for correcting pixel density

An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first detection unit, a first determination unit, a second detection unit, a second determination unit, a correction unit, and a transmitting unit. The acquisition unit acquires image information having multiple pixels. The first detection unit detects sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels in accordance with the image information. The first determination unit determines whether or not a development-related defect occurs in a preset number of pixels downstream of the sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels in the sub-scanning direction. The second detection unit detects an end pixel in the main scanning direction. The second determination unit determines whether or not each of sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels arranged in the main scanning direction is close to the end pixel in the main scanning direction. The correction unit corrects the image information. The transmitting unit transmits the image information corrected by the correction unit to an image forming apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, image forming system, image forming apparatus, and image processing method for correcting density of image information

An image processing device includes a detector that detects a target pixel as an outline pixel if a density of a predetermined region including the target pixel with each pixel of an image treated as the target pixel is equal to or above an outline determination threshold value, the outline determination threshold value being a threshold value set in response to the density of the target pixel, and being a threshold value used to determine whether the target pixel is an outline pixel corresponding to an outline of the image, and a correction unit that corrects a correction pixel, as a correction target having a density equal to or above a predetermined density from among the outline pixels detected by the detector, in response to a density of the correction pixel.

Image processing device, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image processing apparatus includes: a multi-level unit that applies a multi-level process on binary halftone dot image data indicating a binary halftone dot image, to form multi-level image data; an acquiring unit that acquires a number of screen lines of the binary halftone dot image data; a tone correcting unit that determines a tone correction amount corresponding to the number of screen lines of the binary halftone dot image data acquired by the acquiring unit, and that applies tone correction on the multi-level image data produced by the multi-level unit, by using the determined tone correction amount; and a re-binarizing unit that binarizes the multi-level image data in which the tone is corrected by the tone correcting unit, without changing a halftone dot shape of the binary halftone dot image data, to produce re-binarized halftone dot image data.

Image processing apparatus, image forming system, image processing method and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image processing apparatus includes an edge-portion detector, an edge-width detector, and a tone correction unit. The edge-portion detector detects a pixel of an edge portion by determining whether or not each of pixels constituting image data which has been input is a pixel which is included in the edge portion. The edge-width detector detects, for the pixel of the edge portion detected by the edge-portion detector, an edge width which is a width of the edge portion. When the edge width detected by the edge-width detector is smaller than a value which is set in advance, the tone correction unit performs tone correction differently in accordance with the detected edge width.

Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable medium

An image processing apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives an image in gray-level representation with respect to a pixel; a determination unit that determines a deviation direction of a pixel value of the pixel in the image received by the reception unit; and a processing unit that performs processing on the image received by the reception unit based on the deviation direction determined by the determination unit.

Resolution conversion using deviation direction of a pixel value of an image

An image processing apparatus includes a screen processing unit that performs, on a color component basis, screen processing for a color signal having basic color components and at least one spot color component. The screen processing unit performs FM screen processing for one of the basic color components of the color signal and performs AM screen processing for the color components, other than the one of the basic color components, of the color signal with four types of screen angles.

Image processing apparatus for performing AM screen processing and FM screen processing, image processing method, computer-readable medium

An image processor has: a unit that executes a conversion process on input image data represented by pixels of M grayscales (M&#x2267;3), to convert the input data into output image data represented by sub-pixels of two grayscales; and a unit that outputs the output data, wherein the conversion process includes: a process to determine a filling pattern of sub-pixels corresponding to a pixel of interest of the input data according to a corrected grayscale value obtained by adding a correction value to a grayscale value of the pixel of interest; and the pattern includes a core pattern which forms a core of a dot and a growth pattern which grows a dot, the correction value includes a diffused error, and at least a part of the diffused error obtained by weighting an error of a pixel determined as the core pattern is not included in the correction value.

Image processor, image-processing method, and computer-readable medium

An image processor includes: a gradation value acquisition unit that acquires a gradation value of a pixel of interest which is a pixel sequentially selected as a target of a binarization process from input image data represented by pixels of M gradations, wherein M&#x2267;3; and a pattern determination unit that determines a filling pattern of a group of pixels of output image data corresponding to the pixel of interest according to a corrected gradation value acquired by adding, to the gradation value of the pixel of interest, an error value diffused from a pixel at a periphery of the pixel of interest, wherein the filling pattern includes at least a first pattern in which a predetermined plurality of pixels are filled and which forms a core of a dot and a third pattern in which substantially no pixel is filled and the pattern determination unit determines the filling pattern to be one of the first pattern and the third pattern according to a size relationship between the corrected gradation value and a predetermined threshold value which spatially varies in a periodic manner.

Image processor, image formation device, image processing method, and computer-readable medium

An image processing apparatus, has: a conversion unit that converts input image information including a first color component and a second color component into output image information in which, with regard to each of the color components, the number of gray levels per pixel is smaller than the number of gray levels per pixel in the input image information and a gray level of the input image information is expressed by a gray level value of each pixel and a dot density and in which the size of a dot is different between the first color component and the second color component; and an output unit that outputs the output image information obtained by the conversion unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method multicolor image forming apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer data signal

In a method of preventing an illegal use of digital contents, a status information for controlling the replay processing of the digital contents is set in the digital contents. The replay processing of the digital contents is controlled in accordance with a value of the status information thus set. Thereby, a technique can be provided which is capable of preventing the illegal use of the digital contents within the various types of shopping centers and retail outlets.

Method and system for preventing illegal use of digital contents, processing program thereof, and recording medium for the program

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