Ricoh Company, Ltd.

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Yuichi Noda

Hidenori Shindoh

Yuuta Saitoh

Kenji Nakamura

Takayuki Kamikura

An image processing apparatus includes circuitry that acquires first image data, embeds electronic watermark data in a brightness component of the first image data to generate second image data, and determines a type of the second image data based on a color difference component of the second image data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium

An information processing apparatus for converting image data created from an optically read manuscript to character data is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a data converting unit configured to convert the image data of a printed character printed beforehand on the manuscript and an added character added after the printed character has been printed to the character data; a character data distinguishing unit configured to distinguish, of the converted character data, between printed character data converted from the image data corresponding to the printed character and added character data converted from the image data corresponding to the added character; an edit information accepting unit configured to accept added character data edit information; and a character data edit unit configured to edit, according to the accepted added character data edit information, the distinguished added character data.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium for distinguishing handwritten text applied to a printed document

It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet-material foreign-matter detecting method and apparatus capable of securely detecting foreign matter attached to a sheet material. That is, the foreign matter attached to the sheet material is detected by applying light emitted from a light source to a sheet material, by picking up a light-source image reflected to the surface of the sheet material by image pickup means, and by judging a difference between brightnesses of a reflected image due to a difference between reflectances of the sheet material and the foreign matter.

Sheet-material foreign-matter detecting method and apparatus

A tire includes at least a pair of breaker plies each having a plurality of wire codes of different orientation. In a tire testing apparatus, a tire is loaded to a test position and electromagnetic wave having a wavelength equal to or shorter than X-ray is irradiated to transmit a tread surface of one of test portions of the tire loaded at the test position. A detector detects the electromagnetic wave to produce a test image signal. A measuring section executes a processing of at least one test item on the pair of breaker plies to a test image data and automatically determines whether the test position of the tire is defective or non-defective, from the processing result of the test image data. A control section determines whether all the test portions of the tire are tested, when the tire is determined to be non-defective at the one test portion, issues a rotate command to rotate the tire for another test position if all the test portions of said tire are not yet ended, and issues a first unload command if all the test portions are ended.

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