公开(公告)号：US08608271B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-17

申请号：US12732764

申请日：2010-03-26

申请人： Yoshiaki Murayama ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano

发明人： Yoshiaki Murayama ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano

IPC分类号： B41J2/205

CPC分类号： B41J2/2132 ,  G06K15/107

摘要： A printing apparatus and a printing method are capable of not permitting a printable ratio of each printing scan to have a deviation and, even if a sudden conveyance shift occurs, outputting a uniform and smooth image in the whole area of the print medium. In order to achieve this, when performing multipass printing of 2M passes, a mask such that a printable area overlapping ratio that relates to straddling between Pass M and Pass M+1 is set higher than the printable area overlapping ratio that relates to straddling between two other consecutive passes is used. By this configuration, even if a complementary relationship of dots collapses due to a sudden conveyance shift or the like and thereby a density reduction is anticipated, by an overlapped dot being separated, increase of the density is accelerated, and it becomes possible to mitigate the above-mentioned density reduction.

摘要翻译： 打印装置和打印方法能够不允许每个打印扫描的可打印比率具有偏差，并且即使发生突然的输送偏移，在打印介质的整个区域中输出均匀且平滑的图像。 为了实现这一点，当进行2M遍的多次打印时，将与Pass M和Pass M + 1之间的跨越相关的可打印区域重叠比设置为高于与两个之间跨越的可打印区域重叠比的掩码 使用其他连续通行证。 通过这种结构，即使由于突然的输送移动等引起的点的互补关系崩溃，从而预期密度降低，通过分离的重叠点，加速了密度的增加，并且可以减轻 上述密度降低。

公开(公告)号：US20100245470A1

公开(公告)日：2010-09-30

申请号：US12732764

申请日：2010-03-26

申请人： Yoshiaki Murayama ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano

发明人： Yoshiaki Murayama ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano

IPC分类号： B41J23/00

CPC分类号： B41J2/2132 ,  G06K15/107

摘要： To provide a printing apparatus and a printing method capable of not permitting a printable ratio of each printing scan to have a deviation and, even if a sudden conveyance shift occurs, outputting a uniform and smooth image in the whole area of the print medium. In order to achieve this, when performing multipass printing of 2M passes, a mask such that a printable area overlapping ratio that relates to straddling between Pass M and Pass M+1 is set higher than the printable area overlapping ratio that relates to straddling between other two consecutive passes is used. By this configuration, even if a complementary relationship of dots collapses due to a sudden conveyance shift etc. and thereby a density reduction is anticipated, by an overlapped dot being separated, increase of the density is accelerated, and it becomes possible to mitigate the above-mentioned density reduction.

摘要翻译： 为了提供能够不允许每个打印扫描的可打印比率具有偏差的打印装置和打印方法，并且即使发生突然的输送偏移，在打印介质的整个区域中输出均匀且平滑的图像。 为了实现这一点，当进行2M遍的多次打印时，将与通过M和通过M + 1之间的跨越相关的可打印区域重叠比设置为高于与其他跨度相关的可打印区域重叠比的掩码 使用两个连续通行证。 通过这种结构，即使由于突然的输送偏移等导致的点的互补关系崩溃，从而预期密度降低，通过重叠的点被分离，加速了密度的增加，并且可以减轻上述 所述密度降低。

公开(公告)号：US20110317177A1

公开(公告)日：2011-12-29

申请号：US13163598

申请日：2011-06-17

申请人： Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Yuji Konno ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa

发明人： Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Yuji Konno ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa

IPC分类号： G06K15/10

CPC分类号： G06K15/107 ,  H04N1/387 ,  H04N1/48

摘要： An image processing apparatus includes a first generation unit configured to generate N pieces of same color multi-valued image data, a second generation unit configured to generate N pieces of quantized data by performing quantization processing on the N pieces of same color multi-valued image data, and a third generation unit configured to divide at least one piece of the N pieces of quantized data into a plurality of quantized data and generate M pieces of quantized data corresponding to the M relative movements. The M pieces of quantized data includes quantized data corresponding to an edge portion of the recording element group and quantized data corresponding to a central portion of the recording element group, and a recording duty of the quantized data corresponding to the edge portion is set lower than a recording duty of the quantized data corresponding to the central portion.

摘要翻译： 一种图像处理装置包括：第一生成单元，被配置为生成N个相同颜色的多值图像数据;第二生成单元，被配置为通过对N个相同颜色的多值图像进行量化处理来生成N个量化数据 数据和第三代单元，被配置为将所述N个量化数据中的至少一条划分成多个量化数据，并生成与M个相对运动相对应的M个量化数据。 M个量化数据包括对应于记录元件组的边缘部分的量化数据和对应于记录元件组的中心部分的量化数据，并且与边缘部分相对应的量化数据的记录占空比被设置为低于 对应于中心部分的量化数据的记录负荷。

公开(公告)号：US20110116115A1

公开(公告)日：2011-05-19

申请号：US12942718

申请日：2010-11-09

申请人： Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Yuji Konno ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono

发明人： Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Yuji Konno ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono

IPC分类号： H04N1/60

CPC分类号： H04N1/52 ,  H04N1/4052

摘要： There are provided an image processing method and an image processor which realize the processing of restricting image degradations such as “dot delay”, “banding” and “wind ripple” with a simpler circuit construction. Therefore, after the regular quantization processing is performed, in a pixel in a prohibition position the processing of limiting a predetermined quantized value to change into another quantized value is performed corresponding to the obtained quantized value and the position information of the pixel of interest. By doing this, even in the low level of the density value, it is possible to realize at a low cost the construction in which dots having different sizes are mixed for printing.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种图像处理方法和图像处理器，其以更简单的电路结构实现了限制诸如“点延迟”，“带状”和“风波”的图像劣化的处理。 因此，在执行常规量化处理之后，在禁止位置的像素中，根据获得的量化值和感兴趣像素的位置信息执行将预定量化值限制为另一个量化值的处理。 通过这样做，即使在低浓度值的情况下，可以以低成本实现将不同尺寸的点混合进行印刷的结构。

公开(公告)号：US20100245446A1

公开(公告)日：2010-09-30

申请号：US12748989

申请日：2010-03-29

申请人： Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Yuji Konno ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Rie Kajihara

发明人： Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Yuji Konno ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Rie Kajihara

IPC分类号： B41J2/205

CPC分类号： B41J2/2132 ,  G06K15/107

摘要： In a 2M-pass printing operation that forms dots including overlapping dots, this invention makes an arrangement to ensure that the number of overlapping dots that are printed in a unit area in pairs of passes each straddling a print medium convey operation executed between an Mth pass and an (M+1)st pass is greater than the number of overlapping dots that are printed in pairs of passes straddling any other convey operation. This arrangement can cause two dots of the overlapping dots to be separated from each other in the event of a print position misalignment, preventing a possible density fall even in a unit area where the largest density reduction is feared to occur at time of the print position misalignment.

摘要翻译： 在形成包括重叠点的点的2M遍打印操作中，本发明提供了一种布置，以确保在跨越打印介质的成对通行单位区域中打印的重叠点的数量在第M次传递之间执行 并且（M + 1）个通道大于跨过任何其它传送操作的成对成对的打印的重叠点的数量。 这种布置可能导致重叠点的两个点在打印位置未对准的情况下彼此分离，从而防止即使在打印位置时发生最大密度降低的单位区域也可能降低密度 不对齐

公开(公告)号：US08953223B2

公开(公告)日：2015-02-10

申请号：US12905529

申请日：2010-10-15

申请人： Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Rie Kajihara ,  Yuji Konno ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko

发明人： Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Rie Kajihara ,  Yuji Konno ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko

IPC分类号： H04N1/405 ,  G06K15/10

CPC分类号： G06K15/107 ,  H04N1/405

摘要： Multi-valued image data corresponding to a pixel area is divided into the first scanning multi-valued data, first and second scanning common multi-valued data, and second scanning multi-valued data. A quantization processing is executed on each of the multi-valued data to generate first scanning quantized data, first and second scanning common quantized data, and second scanning quantized data. After that, these pieces of quantized data are combined for each scanning to generate first scanning combined quantized data and second scanning combined quantized data. According to this, the amount of pixels where dots are both recorded by performing a scanning by plural times (the amount of overlapping dots) is controlled, and while suppressing the image density variations, the granularity is held to a low level.

摘要翻译： 对应于像素区域的多值图像数据被划分为第一扫描多值数据，第一和第二扫描公共多值数据以及第二扫描多值数据。 对多值数据中的每一个执行量化处理，以产生第一扫描量化数据，第一和第二扫描公共量化数据以及第二扫描量化数据。 之后，将这些量化数据组合用于每次扫描，以产生第一扫描组合量化数据和第二扫描组合量化数据。 据此，通过进行多次扫描（重叠点数）来记录两个点的像素量被控制，并且在抑制图像浓度变化的同时，粒度保持在低水平。

公开(公告)号：US20110075174A1

公开(公告)日：2011-03-31

申请号：US12962044

申请日：2010-12-07

申请人： Rie Kajihara ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Yuji Konno ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko

发明人： Rie Kajihara ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Yuji Konno ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko

IPC分类号： H04N1/60

CPC分类号： B41J2/2132 ,  G06K15/107 ,  H04N1/52

摘要： The image processing apparatus executes quantization processing of second multi-valued image data that corresponds to a second relative movement of a plurality of relative movements based on first multi-valued image data that corresponds to a first relative movement of the plurality of relative movements, and executes quantization processing of the first multi-valued image data based on the second multi-valued image data. This makes it possible to output a high-quality image having excellent robustness and reduced graininess by controlling the overlap rate of dots that are printed by the first relative movement and the dots that are printed by the second relative movement.

摘要翻译： 图像处理装置基于与多个相对运动的第一相对运动相对应的第一多值图像数据执行与多个相对运动的第二相对运动相对应的第二多值图像数据的量化处理，以及 基于第二多值图像数据执行第一多值图像数据的量化处理。 这使得可以通过控制通过第一相对运动打印的点的重叠率和通过第二相对运动打印的点来输出具有优异的鲁棒性和降低的颗粒度的高质量图像。

公开(公告)号：US08643906B2

公开(公告)日：2014-02-04

申请号：US12966067

申请日：2010-12-13

申请人： Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Rie Kajihara ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano

发明人： Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Rie Kajihara ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano

IPC分类号： H04N1/40

CPC分类号： H04N1/40 ,  H04N1/1911 ,  H04N1/1913 ,  H04N1/405 ,  H04N2201/0082

摘要： The present invention suppresses data processing load and processing time when generating density data for the same color that corresponds to a plurality of printing scans (or plurality of printing element groups) of a printing head and printing medium. In order to accomplish this, input image data is converted to a plurality of density data by referencing a three-dimensional lookup table that performs one-to-one correlation of input image data with a plurality of density data that corresponds to a plurality of relative movements (or plurality of printing element groups). By doing so, it is possible to perform a process of generating density data (CMYK) that corresponds to a plurality of relative movements (or plurality of printing element groups) from input image data at once, and thus it is possible to suppress an increase in data processing load and processing time.

摘要翻译： 当与针对打印头和打印介质的多个打印扫描（或多个打印元件组）相对应的相同颜色的密度数据生成时，本发明抑制数据处理负载和处理时间。 为了实现这一点，通过参考三维查找表将输入图像数据转换为多个密度数据，该三维查找表执行输入图像数据与对应于多个相对的多个密度数据的一一相关 移动（或多个打印元件组）。 通过这样做，可以一次执行从输入图像数据生成与多个相对运动（或多个打印元件组）相对应的浓度数据（CMYK）的处理，因此可以抑制增加 在数据处理负载和处理时间。

公开(公告)号：US08430472B2

公开(公告)日：2013-04-30

申请号：US12748989

申请日：2010-03-29

申请人： Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Yuji Konno ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Rie Kajihara

发明人： Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano ,  Yuji Konno ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Rie Kajihara

IPC分类号： B41J2/205 ,  B41J29/38 ,  B41J29/393 ,  B41J2/165 ,  B41J2/145

CPC分类号： B41J2/2132 ,  G06K15/107

摘要： In a 2M-pass printing operation that forms dots including overlapping dots, this invention makes an arrangement to ensure that the number of overlapping dots that are printed in a unit area in pairs of passes each straddling a print medium convey operation executed between an Mth pass and an (M+1)st pass is greater than the number of overlapping dots that are printed in pairs of passes straddling any other convey operation. This arrangement can cause two dots of the overlapping dots to be separated from each other in the event of a print position misalignment, preventing a possible density fall even in a unit area where the largest density reduction is feared to occur at time of the print position misalignment.

摘要翻译： 在形成包括重叠点的点的2M遍打印操作中，本发明提供了一种布置，以确保在跨越打印介质的成对通行单位区域中打印的重叠点的数量在第M次传递之间执行 并且（M + 1）个通道大于跨过任何其它传送操作的成对成对的打印的重叠点的数量。 这种布置可能导致重叠点的两个点在打印位置未对准的情况下彼此分离，从而防止即使在打印位置时发生最大密度降低的单位区域也可能降低密度 不对齐

公开(公告)号：US20110080615A1

公开(公告)日：2011-04-07

申请号：US12966067

申请日：2010-12-13

申请人： Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Rie Kajihara ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano

发明人： Mitsuhiro Ono ,  Akitoshi Yamada ,  Rie Kajihara ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano

IPC分类号： H04N1/40

CPC分类号： H04N1/40 ,  H04N1/1911 ,  H04N1/1913 ,  H04N1/405 ,  H04N2201/0082

摘要： The present invention suppresses data processing load and processing time when generating density data for the same color that corresponds to a plurality of printing scans (or plurality of printing element groups) of a printing head and printing medium. In order to accomplish this, input image data is converted to a plurality of density data by referencing a three-dimensional lookup table that performs one-to-one correlation of input image data with a plurality of density data that corresponds to a plurality of relative movements (or plurality of printing element groups). By doing so, it is possible to perform a process of generating density data (CMYK) that corresponds to a plurality of relative movements (or plurality of printing element groups) from input image data at once, and thus it is possible to suppress an increase in data processing load and processing time.

摘要翻译： 当与针对打印头和打印介质的多个打印扫描（或多个打印元件组）相对应的相同颜色的密度数据生成时，本发明抑制数据处理负载和处理时间。 为了实现这一点，通过参考三维查找表将输入图像数据转换为多个密度数据，该三维查找表执行输入图像数据与对应于多个相对的多个密度数据的一对一相关 移动（或多个打印元件组）。 通过这样做，可以一次执行从输入图像数据生成与多个相对运动（或多个打印元件组）相对应的浓度数据（CMYK）的处理，因此可以抑制增加 在数据处理负载和处理时间。