Konica Minolta, Inc.

Tomoo Yamanaka

Hisataka Funakawa

Akira Ohhata

Tomohiro Yamaguchi

Katsuaki Wakui

Tomoaki Yamada

Shota Fujioka

An image processing device assists searching for image data in an image viewing service, and includes: a recognizer that recognizes a part representing a target object from the image data; an extractor that extracts a color used in pixels in the part recognized; a determiner that determines a color that is not extracted from the part but is likely to be used in searching by a service user, based on a search tendency in searching by the service user; and an adder that creates a first tag indicating the color extracted by the extractor and a second tag indicating the color determined by the determiner and adds the first tag and the second tag as search tags to the image data.

Image processing device, image viewing system, image processing program, and image processing method

An image reading device includes: a scanner having characteristics of causing a distorted sine wave being formed by its obtained image data and being represented as an array of shade values arranged in a main scanning direction; a reference member to be scanned; a hardware processor that: obtains a shade value at each main scanning coordinate from shading reference data obtained from the reference member; detects the start and end position of a distorted waveform range in the shading reference data; defines the start and end position of a target range as the main scanning coordinates of two peaks, the two peaks being in a distorted sine wave formed by the shading reference data, the two peaks being within a predetermined reference distance to the right and left of the start and end position; and replaces a part of data in the target range with a substitute part of data.

Image reading device, image forming apparatus, method of replacing a part of shading reference data, and recording medium

An image processing apparatus includes a first communication portion configured to wirelessly communicate with a terminal and a second communication portion configured to carry out near field communication with a terminal. A communication distance between the second communication portion and the terminal is shorter than a communication distance between the first communication portion and the terminal. The image processing apparatus further includes an adjustment portion configured to adjust a communication-established distance over which the first communication portion establishes communication with the terminal so as to match with a specific position at which the second communication portion establishes communication with the terminal.

Image processing apparatus, method and non-transitory computer readable-medium for adjusting wireless communication distance equal to near field communication distance

Touch panel input device including: display panel having display surface; display controller causing display of button image on the display surface, the button image used for receiving touch operation performed by user; touch position detector detecting touch position of the display surface by detecting X and Y coordinates on X-Y rectangular coordinate system; area specifier specifying first area and second area of the display surface, the first area being area at which the button image is to be displayed, the second area being remaining area of display surface; and detection instructor referring to result of the specification by the area specifier and instructing the touch position detector (i) to perform touch position detection with respect to an area corresponding to the first area and (ii) to put in off state touch position detection with respect to an area corresponding to at least a part of the second area.

Touch panel input device

An image processing apparatus capable of communicating with a terminal includes: a first communication unit configured to communicate wirelessly with the terminal; and a second communication unit configured to perform near field communication with the terminal over a shorter communication distance than that of the first communication unit, wherein the second communication unit is configured to be movable together with an operation panel of the image processing apparatus and establish communication with the terminal in a specific area on the operation panel, and the first communication unit is placed with respect to the operation panel such that the specific area includes a communication establishment distance within which the first communication unit establishes communication with the terminal irrespective of the movement of the operation panel.

Image processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and program

A character detection apparatus is provided that detects, from an image including a first image representing a character and a second image representing a translucent object, the character. The character detection apparatus includes a calculating portion that, for each of blocks obtained by dividing an overlapping region in which the first image is overlapped by the second image, calculates a frequency of appearance of pixels for each of gradations of a property, and a detection portion that detects the character from the overlapping region based on the frequency for each of the gradations.

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Toyokawa, Japan

Tomoo Yamanaka