摘要:
A device for printing print data after converting the print data into converted print data includes a head unit for printing the converted print data by moving in a scanning direction, the head unit having at least one head line in which print elements are arranged diagonally with respect to the scanning direction, a row-order-conversion unit for rearranging rows of the print data according to an arrangement of the print elements so as to generate row-converted print data, and a column-order-conversion unit for rearranging column positions of the row-converted print data according to the arrangement of the print elements so as to generate the converted print data.
摘要:
An embedding-availability determining unit determines an availability of embedding data into an image based on an input/output characteristic of a predetermined feature amount related to a combination of an output device that outputs an image in which the data is embedded to a medium and an input device that inputs the image that is output to the medium. A result output unit outputs a result of determination by the embedding-availability determining unit.
摘要:
In an encoding device that creates an image in which data is embedded, an embedding unit divides an image into a plurality of blocks, and embeds data in the image based on a difference in value of characteristics of adjacent blocks; and a restriction information recording unit records use restriction information that restricts use of embedded data.
摘要:
The image reader according to the present invention comprises a housing having substantially a box-shape and having an image reading surface contacting a document, a document detecting section provided to this image reading surface for detecting a document P, and an image reading section for reading an image on the document when the document P is detected by the document detecting section 105. This image reader enables improvement in convenience for users, operability, and adaptability for handling, and also it is small in size.
摘要:
In an encoding device that creates an image in which data is embedded, an embedding unit divides an image into a plurality of blocks, and embeds data in the image based on a difference in value of characteristics of adjacent blocks; and a restriction information recording unit records use restriction information that restricts use of embedded data.
摘要:
A method for detecting a skew of a document image corrects the skew of a document image input from an image scanner, and achieves increased accuracy compared with prior art document image skew detection methods. After segmenting the input document image into regions each having a predetermined width, lines containing black pixels are detected from each of these regions. Then, from a region where the detected lines containing black pixels follow one another in a consecutive manner, a partial image is extracted, the skew angle of the partial image is detected, and the skew angle of the document image is determined based on the thus detected skew angle of the partial image.
摘要:
An encoding unit encodes the received image data in frame units. A code buffer stores the amount of codes per 1 frame. The detection condition setting unit sets a detection condition (a standard value of a code amount difference) specified according to the detection designation data entered externally. A scene determining unit calculates the difference between the amount of codes in the present frame entered from the code buffer and the amount of codes in the previous frame. If the difference is larger than the detection condition (the standard value of the code amount difference), the scene determining unit issues a COS code indicating a scene-changed frame and sets a selection signal in an active state. A switch adds the COS code to the encoded data in the present frame and externally outputs it when the selection signal indicates an active state.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image data in which continuous still images are compressed and decompressed. The apparatus divides a plurality of multivalue image data into blocks each comprising a plurality of pixels, the pixels in the block are orthogonal converted and compressed, and the original image data is decompressed from the encoded data. The apparatus detects the block having an image change as an effective block. For a macro block including a plurality of effective blocks, a compressing order of the macro blocks is decided by the order according to appearance frequencies of the effective blocks or a predetermined order and the image data is compressed every macro block. As encoded data, the order information and code information of the macro block are sequentially transmitted. In this instance, the code amount is monitored. When the code amount exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the compression is stopped and the compression of the next image is performed. The encoded data is sequentially sent to the decompressing side and is decompressed in accordance with the order from the macro block of a portion of large change in the image. Even when the compression is stopped during the image processing because of a limitation of a code transmission amount, the image is reconstructed from the portion to which a person more carefully observes, so that a discrete motion or a background block noise does not occur.
摘要:
In the first stage, a merging position relationship (a rotation angle, and/or presence/absence of mirror image flipping) between two images is identified by using reduced images, and a rough overlapping region is detected. In the second stage, an exact overlapping position, an inclination, etc. are detected. In the third stage, the two images are merged by using the process results of the first and the second stages.
摘要:
A line orientation determining unit determining whether the line orientation of an input document image is either vertical or horizontal, a character image extracting unit extracting a character image from the input document image, a character orientation detecting unit detecting whether or not to require a rotation, a rotational angle if the rotation is required, and mirror image flipping, which are intended for correcting the extracted character image to be properly orientated, in correspondence with the result of the determination made by the line orientation determining unit, and a document image correcting unit correcting the input document image to be properly orientated based on the result of the detection made by the character orientation detecting unit are comprised. With these units, a scanned image is automatically corrected to be a properly orientated image, even if a document such as an English document image the text of which is horizontally written in normal cases is scanned in any of upward, downward, right, and left directions, is scanned, for example, with the use of a hand-held scanner.