Minolta Company, Ltd.

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Hideyuki Kanbayashi

Tadashi Ohira

Yoshinori Tanaka

Masahiro Ozawa

Kenichi Watanabe

Yasuaki Sugimoto

Naoki Toyoshi

Kentaro Katori

Yoko Fujiwara

Takeo Katsuda

Shinichi Takemoto

Masazumi Ogawa

Naoki Sakai

Hiromi Yazawa

Shimpei Itaya

Hisashi Katou

Akio Matsunami

A display system includes first and second operation displays, wherein the display system causes the first and second operation displays to perform a cooperative operation, in a case where a predetermined operation has been received via the first operation display when the first operation display is in a power saving display state and the first and second operation displays are not performing the cooperative operation, the state of the first operation display is changed to the normal display state, and in a case where the predetermined operation has been received via the first operation display when the first operation display is in the power saving display state and the second operation display is in the normal display state and the first and second operation displays are performing the cooperative operation, the display system maintains the first operation display in the power saving display state.

Display system for controlling power state of display, image forming apparatus, program, and display power state control method

Disclosed is an operation display system, including: an operation display device including a display unit to display an operation window; an operating unit to receive an operation to the operation window; and a display control unit to change the operation window in accordance with the operation received by using the operating unit; an air operation detecting unit to detect an air operation performed by one user in air apart from the display unit; a virtual operation window creating unit to create a virtual operation window in which the operation window is changed in accordance with the air operation; and an AR display unit to show the one user an augmented reality space in which the virtual operation window is synthesized with a real space, wherein the display control unit does not change the operation window displayed on the display unit, in accordance with the air operation.

Operation display system and operation display method

An image processing device having an image processing unitthat adjusts colors of the foreground image data that are approximately equal to a uniform color that makes the boundary between the foreground image data and the background image data recognizable to all the colors of the background image data that serves as the foreground image data's back ground, and synthesizes the foreground image data and the background image data.

Image processing device, program product and method

A scanner capable of functioning as a data transmission management device that makes a determination as to whether data should be allowed to be reused at a file transmission destination based on the nature of the particular destination, produces a reusable file, and transmits it to the destination, if it determines that the reuse of the data is allowed because the destination is within the area of the first network Nto which the scanner is connected; or it produces difficult-to-reuse file and transmits it to the destination, if it determines that the reuse of the data is disallowed because the destination is outside of the area of the first network N

Device, method and program product for data transmission management

An image processing device including a detector for detecting a characteristic feature formed from image data and a separator for separating halftone dot graphic regions and halftone dot photographic regions from the image data based on the characteristic feature.

Image processing device, method and program product for separating character, halftone graphic, and halftone photographic regions

An image processing device extracts graphic areas, for example, firstly from image data received, and then extracts other remaining areas, i.e., photographic and character areas. The areas that are extracted firstly can be photographic or character areas. This prevents the areas to be extracted firstly from being extracted accompanying with other areas under the influence of isolation processes to be executed on other areas. The image processing device also can establish the order of extraction of each area depending on the contents of the image data based on the user's operation.

Image processing device, image processing method, program for executing image processing, and computer readable recording medium on which the program is stored

A system where pieces of information equipment are connected via a network, including a memory unit and a compensating device. The memory unit stores position information that represents a physical position of each piece of information equipment. The compensating device compensates a physical distance from one piece of information equipment to another piece of information equipment based on the position information, according to a frequency of information exchange between the former and the latter.

Information equipment system

An image processing apparatus including a receiving unit, an extraction means, and a conversion means is disclosed. The receiving unit receives a first document data and a second document data obtained by reading respectively a first document and a second document each having at least one drawing. The extraction means extracts a first caption group for identifying the drawing contained in the first document and a second caption group for identifying the drawing contained in the second document. The conversion means converts the first caption group and the second caption group into a third caption group so that a character string in the first caption group does not overlap a character string in the second caption group.

Image processing apparatus, image editing apparatus, image editing method, and image editing program

An image processing apparatus processes image data which is obtained by reading an halftone dot image. In the image processing apparatus, the image data is separated into the image data corresponding to halftone dots which form the halftone dot image and other image data. On the image data corresponding the halftone dots, the smoothing process is performed, and on the other image data, the edge enhancement is performed. Both of image data are synthesized and outputted. Since only the separated image data corresponding to halftone dots are smoothed out, it is possible to suppress creation of a moir&#xe9; due to the halftone dot image which is an aggregation of the halftone dots, without influencing the smoothing processing upon the character portion in the vicinity of the halftone dots. On the other hand, since the other image data are edge-enhanced, the character portion, a line and the like show sharp and legible.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer program product for image processing

The image processing devicegenerates edge image data from input image data, measures the distances between edge pixels in the main and secondary scanning direction, and interpolates between the edge pixels where said distances are less than a specified number of pixels in order to generate connecting edge image data of a group of connecting edge pixels. Next, it extracts a rectangular area circumscribing said group of connecting edge pixels as a local area, extracts diagonal direction edge components of said input image data that belong to said local area, and identifies said local area if the content of said diagonal direction edge components is within a specified range. The image processing device according to the present invention makes it possible to identify character areas correctly even in case of character images on complex color area reproduced by a screen, etc., and also extract character areas without causing problems such as partially missing defective characters.

Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, and computer readable recording medium on which image processing program is recorded

An apparatus for image processing including a region detector, a density conversion unit, a compression unit, and an expansion unit. The region detector detects an edge region in an image data. The density conversion unit reduces a density difference within the edge region detected by the region detector. The compression unit compresses the image data within the edge region where the density difference is reduced by the density conversion unit, using the discrete cosine transform. The expansion unit expands the image data compressed by the compression unit.

Apparatus, method, and computer program product for image processing

In an image processor, a first converter extracts a line image region in input bit map image data and converts the line image to vector data, while a second converter converts bit map data of pixels in the input bit map image data around the line image of the line image region based on the bit map data of pixels around the line image region. Then, a composer composes the vector data of the line image obtained by the first converter and the bit map data converted by the second converter.

Image processor

An image output system having an image output device for performing a specified output process with respect to image data, and an image input device for providing the image data via reading an image from a document, or via an external device. Both the image input device and image output device have controllers for controlling the respective devices. The controller of the image output device outputs a reset signal to the system controller of the image input device when a response from the controller of the image input device is not appropriate, and continues to output the reset signal until a predetermined time elapses and the response from the controller of the image input device is judged to be appropriate.

Image output device

An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus; an image processor, the image processor includes instruction element for requesting image processing parameter adjustment data from the image forming apparatus; a receiver for receiving image processing parameter adjustment data from the image forming apparatus, and image processor for performing adjustment of an image processing parameter based on the image processing parameter adjustment data received by the receiver. The image forming apparatus includes a data creating device for creating image processing parameter adjustment data, and a transmitter for transmitting the image processing parameter adjustment data created by the data creating element to the image processor.

Image processor, image forming apparatus, image forming system comprising these apparatuses, computer-readable recording medium that records image forming program, and image forming method

A copying system consisting of a scanner and a printer which are directly connected, including a printer controller controlling a printer engine based on data received from an external computer via a network line, an interface switching unit switching the occupancy of the printer engine between the printer controller and the scanner, and a controller that makes the printer controller occupy the printer engine by means of controlling the interface switching unit when a trouble occurs while the printer engine is occupied by the scanner.

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Odawara, Japan

Tsutomu Yamazaki