Seiko Epson Corporation

Takayoshi Kojima

Taisuke Okawa

Tomoyuki Nakano

Masahiro Murata

Hiroyuki Ushiama

A printing apparatus includes a head that discharges ink droplets, and a control unit that performs discharge control of the head. When printing a boundary region formed by an end portion of a first image and an end portion of a second image that is lighter than the first image, in discharge control of a specific ink, among a plurality of inks for printing the end portion of the first image, that exhibits lightness, when forming the end portion of the first image, lower than lightness of the end portion of the second image by a predetermined value or more, the control unit performs specific ink discharge control to cause a number of dots per unit area constituting the end portion of the first image to be smaller than a number of dots per unit area constituting a normal portion, of the first image, that is adjacent to the end portion of the first image.

Printing apparatus and printing method

A printing apparatus includes a head capable of discharging CMYK inks including a K ink, and a control unit configured to, based on image data to be printed, generate ink amount data for controlling an ink amount of each of the CMYK inks discharged by the head, and to control the head based on the ink amount data, wherein the control unit generates the ink amount data as ink amount data such that lightness of a composite color at least does not increase in a direction from a freely-selected coordinate point toward a black point, the composite color being formed by the CMY inks excluding the K ink based on ink amount data of each of the CMYK inks corresponding to a coordinate on a straight line from the freely-selected coordinate point toward the black point in a predetermined hue range of a color gamut of a color space of the image data.

A printing control method includes acquiring colorimetric values of a pattern which is printed on first paper by a printing head which discharges an ink onto the first paper; generating first correction values each for correcting a corresponding one of amounts of the ink to be discharged onto the first paper by the printing head, on the basis of the colorimetric values and reference colorimetric values of the pattern printed on the first paper; generating second correction values on the basis of the first correction values and characteristic conversion coefficients; and when printing is performed on the second paper by the printing head which discharges the ink onto the second paper, correcting each of amounts of the ink to be discharged onto the second paper by the printing head, in accordance with a corresponding one of the second correction values.

Printing control method and printing control device

An image processing apparatus for performing a white balance correction for RAW data obtained by an image capturing unit, includes a storage, operable to store a RAW file to which the RAW data and developed data obtained by performing a development processing to the RAW data are attached, and a corrector, operable to perform the white balance correction for the RAW data based on the developed data stored in the storage.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A digital camera checks whether an image file stored in a flash memory unit belongs to an image file group including a RAW file and a JPEG file generated from the RAW file, and displays an image of an image file belonging to the image file group and an image of a single image file not belonging to any image file group in mutually different modes and so that the user can select an image. If the image of the image file group is selected, text that allows the user to select an image file to be deleted among the image files belonging to the image file group is displayed. As described above, one image corresponding to an image file among a plurality of image files belonging to an image file group is displayed, and text that allows the user to select an image file to be deleted is displayed.

Image display controlling device, imaging device, and image display method

An image display apparatus includes a face region detecting section configured to detect a face region of a person in each of a plurality of main images; a face importance degree determining section configured to determine a degree of importance within each of the main images of a face region detected in each the main images; and a display position setting section configured to set a common display position of a sub image with respect to the main images based on the importance degree of a face region in each of the main images.

Image displaying apparatus and image displaying method

In a digital camera, it is checked whether a stored image file belongs to an image file group including a pre-development RAW file and a JPEG file generated by developing the RAW file. When the storage image file belongs to an image file group, an image belonging to the image file group and an image of a single image file not belonging to any image file group are displayed in distinguishable modes in an image selection screen so that a user can select either one of these images. Furthermore, text representing information regarding the image file group or the single image file is displayed, such as information indicating a file type that a displayed image corresponds to, or information including a name of a developing device. As described above, only an image among images of an image file group is displayed, and information regarding the image file is displayed.

Image display controlling device for displaying an image belonging to a file image group, imaging device for displaying an image belonging to a file image group, and image display method for displaying an image belonging to a file image group

A digital cameratransmits to a printera command for transmitting RAW format compatibility information which is information of a RAW file format directly printable by the printer. Upon receipt of the RAW format compatibility information from the printer, the digital cameradetermines, on the basis of the received RAW format compatibility information and the format of a RAW file stored in a flash memorythereof, whether the RAW file can be directly printed by the printer. If the RAW file can be directly printed, the digital cameratransmits the RAW file to the printer. If the RAW file cannot be directly printed, the digital cameratransmits to the printerthe RAW file and a development enabling parameter which enables analysis of RAW data included in the RAW file as image data. The printerprints the RAW file with the use of the development enabling parameter.

Image output device, image processing apparatus, image output and image processing system, and method therefore

An image processing device capable of executing adjustment of image quality of image data includes a feature amount obtainment unit which obtains an amount of feature indicative of a feature of image quality of the image data, a correction amount obtainment unit which obtains an amount of correction for adjusting the feature amount of the image data to a predetermined target value, and an image quality evaluation unit which evaluates an image quality based on the correction amount.

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Azumino, Japan

Takayoshi Kojima