Abstract:
An image processing apparatus for correcting a dislocation of image, pixels being arranged in a first and second directions perpendicular to each other, including: a section which breaks down a correction amount of the image of each pixel in the second direction into a first shift amount with a unit of a prescribed block, a second shift amount with a unit of the pixel, and a third shift amount less than the pixel size; a minimal shift section which shifts the image data by the third shift amount; a pixel unit shift section which shifts the image data by the second shift amount; and a block unit shift section which shifts the image data by the first shift amount, during compression and storage processing of the image data in the block unit, and executing arrangement of the image data after reading-out and expanding the compressed image data.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes a sensor section which includes a color line sensor which reads a color image and a monochrome line sensor which reads a monochrome image provided in parallel with and a specific distance away from the color line sensor, an input section which inputs a document image to the color line sensor and the monochrome line sensor, and a control section which, when reading an image from a document by use of the input section, starts the reading of an image by the color line sensor and the reading of an image by the monochrome line sensor with the same timing.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a recording sheet for use in an image recording apparatus which forms an image by a recording head, the recording sheet has a pattern for measurement in which a correction amount for correction of a positional shift of a recorded dot recorded by the recording head is measurable based on a positional relationship with an image for measurement formed by the recording head, and accordingly it is possible to correct arrangement of recorded dots and to record an image without any distortion.
Abstract:
An automatic image calibration method is provided for a contact type scanner. The inventive method involves in first reading an image of a test chart that consists of at least a horizontal line and a plurality of slanting lines. Then, compute the calibration parameters according to the image of the test chart. The calibration parameters include a vertical displacement value, a horizontal displacement value, and a slope value. After obtaining the calibration parameters for each sensor chip, the initialization step is complete. The calibration parameters must be stored in a memory device for an application program to read. Later on, for each image read by the contact type scanner, the application program can automatically calibrate the image according to the calibration parameters stored in the memory device.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus has a photoelectric converting element for receiving light obtained from an original illuminated by a light source, a lens for imaging the light obtained from the original on the photoelectric converting element, and a guide member for guiding the original to an original reading position, the guide member having a hollow portion for containing the photoelectric converting element and the lens therein.
Abstract:
An image joining method for a scanner that scans and transfers image data to a terminal is provided. During scanning and data transfer, when the image data stored in a register is full, an image processor stops the scanning of a linear photodetector. Meanwhile, a matrix photodetector fetches and stores the image of a code strip. Then, the photodetectors are moved backward a distance larger than that being required to be accelerated forward when the scanner resumes scanning. After the data in the register being transferred and cleared, the linear photodetector resumes scanning at a normal moving speed. The code strip image is further fetched and compared with the stored one to get a joining point of scanned image data. By the joining point, the new and prior image data portions are joined and the scanning proceeds, and joined image data will not be overlapped or broken.
Abstract:
There exists a problem that, for registration correction, carrying out less-than-one-pixel-basis correction and one-pixel-basis correction for an image after half toning using screen processing causes unevenness in density when it is hard for linearity of image density against a PWM to come out. Processing of interpolation is carried out so that the way how a halfdot is formed may always becomes the same after the interpolation processing. By applying a matrix in consideration of a dot direction which may be broken by the interpolation processing at the time of the screen processing, conversion in which a way of locating the half dot maintains relation of vertical inversion in a subscanning direction is carried out, and less-than-one-pixel-basis correction is carried out.
Abstract:
There exists a problem that, for registration correction, carrying out less-than-one-pixel-basis correction and one-pixel-basis correction for an image after half toning using screen processing causes unevenness in density when it is hard for linearity of image density against a PWM to come out. Processing of interpolation is carried out so that the way how a halfdot is formed may always becomes the same after the interpolation processing. By applying a matrix in consideration of a dot direction which may be broken by the interpolation processing at the time of the screen processing, conversion in which a way of locating the half dot maintains relation of vertical inversion in a subscanning direction is carried out, and less-than-one-pixel-basis correction is carried out.
Abstract:
A method of processing image data from a multi-chip array with a plurality of photosensitive chips aligned substantially in a transverse direction, including: generating, using a processor for at least one specially programmed computer, a Δy or Δx optical error value equal to a difference in process and transverse directions, respectively, between actual and apparent locations for a first photosensor, the apparent location due to optical error; and storing, in a memory element for the specially programmed computer, respective outputs from the photosensors in the array for first and second scan lines. The actual location is included in the first scan line. The processor retrieves, for use as at least part of useful image data for the first photosensor, the stored output of: the first photosensor for the second scan line for a Δy optical error, or a second photosensor for the first line for a Δx optical error . . . .
Abstract:
A printer not optically correcting bends and inclinations of scanning lines needs to execute such control as to electrically correct them. However, a conventional correction method has a problem that this correction causes an image defect such as an image streak or an uneven density in a specific area. A correction method of the present invention, when an input image has only one color, executes only correction by a second correction component which corrects distortions in a main scanning direction without executing correction by a first correction component which corrects bends and inclinations in a sub-scanning direction, and when an input image has two or more colors, executes both of correction by the first correction component and correction by the second correction component. This control can reduce the frequency of occurrence of an image defect.