IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PREVENTING FAILURE IN DECODING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EMBEDDED IN PRINT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20240146860A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-02

    申请号:US18488195

    申请日:2023-10-17

    发明人: Tsubasa OCHIAI

    IPC分类号: H04N1/405 H04N1/00

    CPC分类号: H04N1/405 H04N1/00867

    摘要: An image processing apparatus capable of preventing failure in decoding additional information embedded in a print. The apparatus performs image processing for generating a print in which additional information is embedded. A halftone pattern used for halftone processing is set out of a plurality of halftone patterns. It is determined whether or not, in a case where the set halftone pattern is used for the halftone processing, encoded patterns generated based on the additional information can be uniformly reproduced from a color plane with which the encoded patterns are synthesized. In a case where it is determined that the encoded patterns cannot be uniformly reproduced, a warning notification is performed for notifying before outputting a print in which the additional information is embedded, a user that the print is a print which can cause failure in decoding the additional information.

    Image forming apparatus configured to perform halftone processing

    公开(公告)号:US11973914B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-30

    申请号:US18159142

    申请日:2023-01-25

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes: a scanning unit configured to form an electrostatic latent image on a photoconductor by scanning the photoconductor with one or more scanning beams in a main scanning direction based on an image signal, repetitively in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction; a generating unit configured to perform halftone processing on image data to generate the image signal; and a storage unit configured to store correction information. The correction information is set such that start positions of a plurality of scanning lines are linearly displaced to either a negative side or a positive side of the main scanning direction along the sub-scanning direction, in accordance with a direction of a first vector forming a smaller angle with the sub-scanning direction among two vectors in the halftone processing.

    Edge enhancement with compensation mechanism

    公开(公告)号:US11956403B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-09

    申请号:US18181614

    申请日:2023-03-10

    IPC分类号: H04N1/00 H04N1/405 H04N1/52

    CPC分类号: H04N1/4052 H04N1/52

    摘要: A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store edge enhancement logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the edge enhancement logic to receive a plurality of pels in a continuous tone image (CTI), receive compensation data for pel forming elements associated with each of the plurality of pels, receive edge enhancement transfer functions, determine whether each of the plurality of pels is an edge pel, perform edge enhancement processing for each of the determined edge pels, including generating a final pel value for the pel based on the pel value for the pel, the edge enhancement transfer function associated with the pel, and the compensation data associated with the pel and perform compensation processing for each of the determined not edge pels, including generating a final pel value for the pel based on the pel value for the pel, and the compensation data associated with the pel.

    HALFTONE SCREEN TILES
    6.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240064260A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-22

    申请号:US18261042

    申请日:2021-02-11

    IPC分类号: H04N1/405 H04N1/32

    CPC分类号: H04N1/4055 H04N1/32256

    摘要: In an example, a method includes obtaining, by at least one processor, a first halftone screen tile having a first halftone pattern. In some examples, the method further comprises obtaining a second halftone screen tile having a second halftone pattern. The method may include determining a halftone screen having a predetermined spatial arrangement of the first and second halftone screen tiles wherein the relative placement of the first and second halftone screen tiles in the predetermined spatial arrangement provides a signature for the halftone screen which when applied to image data provides a printed output in which the signature is discernible.

    STORAGE MEDIUM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20240037895A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-01

    申请号:US18350931

    申请日:2023-07-12

    摘要: An object of the present disclosure is to maintain density as an area as compared to a conventional technology even in a case where the quantization target is an image of a high-frequency pattern, such as a hatching pattern, with a halftone value to be subjected to an error diffusion process. An embodiment of the present invention is a program for causing a computer to function as an image processing apparatus for quantizing a pixel value of each pixel in an input image, the computer being caused to function as: an adding unit configured to add at least part of a difference between an accumulated pixel value and an applied error value for a pixel of interest to a quantization error value obtained by the quantization; and an error distributing unit configured to diffuse an added error obtained by the adding unit to peripheral pixels around the pixel of interest.

    Precise circular halftones
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11611679B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-21

    申请号:US17466689

    申请日:2021-09-03

    申请人: Adobe Inc.

    摘要: Embodiments are disclosed for generating a vector object that comprises a precise circular halftone representation of an input image. A method of precise circular halftone generation includes receiving an input image, dividing the image into a grid comprising a plurality of cells, determining a color of a portion of the input image associated with a first cell, determining a radius of circular halftone elements to represent the color associated with the first cell, and generating a path object representing the portion of the input image using circular halftone elements having the determined radius.