Abstract: An image sensing apparatus is provided with an image sensor having picture elements; an electronic monitor having a number of scanning lines fewer than the vertical picture elements of the image sensor; and a driving circuit for reading from the image sensor a fewer scanning lines when the apparatus is in a monitor mode than when the apparatus is in an image sensing mode. The driving circuit reads the image sensor in a non-interlacing manner in the monitor mode. A switching circuit shuts off power to unused circuits when the apparatus is in various operating modes.

Abstract: A scanning recording type printing method, in which sampled image of tone data is printed by controlling the scanning length and position of a dot which may include a plurality of different colors in the interior of a pixel such that the dots in two adjacent pixels are paired such that no interruptions exist between the dots.

Abstract: A color imaging apparatus includes means for electronically non-linearly expanding or compressing the dynamic range of an image signal output therefrom. Separate output signals of respective brightness for different colors are logarithmically compressed, inverse-logarithmically converted, then linear-matrix-converted and multipled by a compression factor of brightness level for the respective color signals to produce a logarithmically compressed color signal without varying the tone.

Abstract: A color image reading and recording apparatus comprises three light source corresponding to blue, green and red colors disposed at one side opposite to the side of the original to be read. A CCD image sensor is used to obtain signals corresponding to the blue, green and red components of the original through the sequential lighting up and driving of the three light sources. The CCD image sensor receives light reflected from the original. A memory device is used to store color component signals corresponding to the blue, green and red components. A color converter then converts the color component signals into yellow, magenta, cyan and black. The apparatus further records the colors converted by the color converter onto a recording paper by controlling the recording of the yellow, magenta, cyan and black color images onto the same recording paper.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus of this invention includes a digital data output device for outputting bi-level image data, a bi-level processor for converting the bi-level image data into multi-level (e.g., 8-bit) image data, a multi-level processor for performing spatial filter processing with respect to the multi-level image data output from the bi-level processor, and a PWM circuit for processing the multi-level image data output from the multi-level processor using a pattern signal of a predetermined cycle and generating a PWM signal.

Abstract: This specification discloses a driving method for a stepping motor is provided with a time detecting step of detecting the time interval to between the generation of two a sheet conveyance commands, a rate setting step of setting a pulse rate in conformity with the time interval detected by the time detecting step, and the driving step of driving the stepping motor at the pulse rate set by the rate setting step. The specification also discloses a sheet conveying apparatus using such driving method.

Abstract: The invention provides an improved color image reader in which the document having a color original image is irradiated by a light source moving relatively on such document and the reflected light is introduced into a single unit including a lens and a color separator so that the color original image is separated into plural color component images. The plural color component images are respectively read and photo-electrically converted into plural signals by CCD's. In such arrangement, the light source is positioned at the upper side of the optical axis of the lens and the CCD's are disposed at the lower side of the axis. The color separator can form the plural color component images on the same plane.

Abstract: The present device is a report outputting system of a facsimile machine provided with a laser beam printer using cut sheets of recording paper. The size of cut sheets of recording paper set in position in the laser beam printer is detected and the maximum number of character lines which may be recorded on each of the cut sheets of recording paper with predetermined top and bottom margins is determined. A report of predetermined information, such as history of transmission and reception operations of the facsimile machine, is recorded on one or more of the cut sheets of recording paper. On each sheet is up to the thus determined maximum number of character lines. A system controller monitors the number of character lines recorded on each cut sheet and controls the system to insure no information is lost when recording multiple page reports.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a color print has a black-and-white CRT for frame-sequentially displaying black-and-white images of three monochromatic images of an image in the form of a brightness pattern thereon, color filters for sequentially changing the black-and-white images to corresponding monochromatic images, a printing lens for projecting each monochromatic image onto a photographic material, and means for changing image size by color through which each monochromatic image is projected on the photographic material by the printing lens, so as to make the three monochromatic images projected onto the photographic material the same size.

Abstract: A color film reading apparatus capable of generating high-gradation color signals from either a color negative or positive film includes a holding device for holding a color negative film, illuminating apparatus for projecting illumination light onto the color negative film, a reading unit for reading image data from the light projected through the color negative film, and shading circuitry for performing shading correction. Control circuitry controls the reading unit to cause the reading unit to raed data from an unexposed portion of the negative to obtain shading correction data. In the case of a positive film, the controlling circuitry sets the shading correction data on the basis of data obtained from the illumination light. Further, a high-gradation color image may be obtained from either a film original or a reflection from an original document.

Abstract: This invention relates to an arrangement for efficiently transmitting facsimile signals from a facsimile source to a facsimile destination using a standard facsimile user interface. The connected switched communications network recognizes that the call is from a facsimile source or to a facsimile destination and causes the facsimile signals to be transmitted at the transmission speed of the source to storage in a network. Subsequently, the signals are transmitted from storage to a facsimile destination at the transmission speed of the destination when the destination becomes available. Advantageously, the source need not wait for the destination to become available before transmitting, and the transmission can take place at a bit rate that matches the source and the destination even when these bit rates are different. Retransmission because of errors in one link is only required for that link, i.e., from the source to the storage or from the storage to the destination.

Abstract: A color filter arrangement having complementary color filters for mounting on an image pickup having a plurality of picture elements. The color filters are arranged to overlie respective picture elements and are further arranged to overlap each other over boundaries between respective picture elements with widths wider than the boundaries between the respective picture elements, thereby offsetting any misalignment of the filter arrangement during cementing. Also, an image pickup device including an image pickup arrangement for converting an optical image into electrical image information, the pickup arrangement having a plurality of picture elements including first and second picture elements, and the pickup device further including a color filter member at least consisting of a first part which is provided for the first picture element.

Abstract: An image signal processing method for a picture output device converts three color separation signals of an original into digital signals, color corrects the digital signals and records a color image using the color corrected signals. According to one embodiment, the multiplied result of three color separation signals and corresponding predetermined coefficients are stored in a memory as a data table. The multiplied results are sequentially read out from the memory and added together. Color corrected signals are outputted in accordance with the added result for recording of the color images. Acording to another embodiment, the color distribution of the three color separation signals is discriminated to obtain a specific color distribution signal. The specific color distribution signal is then inputted as an address signal into a color conversion table via an address editing circuit. According to yet another embodiment, the number of output colors of the color image is set in advance.

Abstract: In an image coding system having a plurality of coding characteristics, such as quantization characteristics, information of a digital image signal sequence is monitored in each of a number of predetermined intervals by forming a histogram of a sequence of coefficients which is calculated from the digital image signal sequence in accordance with each of the coding characteristics. The amount of information is calculated by summing up the coefficients in relation to every one of the coding characteristics. An optimum one of the coding characteristics is indicated by the coding control circuit to code the coefficient sequence into a sequence of coded signals in accordance with the optimum coding characteristic. The coefficient sequence in each frame may be divided into a sequence of blocks each of which is judged to be either valid or invalid in relation to each coding characteristic. Results of judgement may be included in the amount of information.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to increase the range of correction of photosite offset and gain response. Each photosite is provided with a correction value for offset and gain response based on measured light intensity value, which is stored in memory. Each photosite correction value is also provided with an attribute value which indicates whether the correction values are to be used as stored, whether a shift of the values is appropriate, in accordance with a stored shift value, or whether the photosite is noncorrectable, and accordingly requires the implementation of a bad pixel routine. Depending on the attribute value, logic is enabled to vary the correction values in accordance with a stored routine for shifting the stored correction value, or implementing a bad pixel routine. If the attribute requires a shifted value, the correction value is shifted a number of places in accordance with a shift stored in the decoder, before it is applied.

Abstract: There is an image reading apparatus for use in a facsimile apparatus, a copying machine or the like. This apparatus illuminates the light from a light source such as an LED array onto an original which is conveyed by a conveying device and thereby reading an image data on the original. To smoothly guide the edge of the original, an original guiding device which guides the original non-rippingly is provided downstream of the position where the original is read in the original conveying direction by the conveying device. As an original guiding device, a flat or concave guide surface, a flat or concave notch, original guide rollers, a guide member having a concave surface, or the like is provided. The guiding device may if desired be light-reflective.

Abstract: Circuitry for converting digital red, green, blue (RGB) inputs into digital saturation and hue outputs comprising hardwired digital components connected to receive the digital RGB inputs and to perform arithmetic manipulations of them so as to provide a digital saturation output representing saturation for the RGB inputs and to provide a digital first intermediate output, and a first look-up memory storing digital hue data representing hue of the digital RGB inputs at addresses corresponding to values of the digital first intermediate output, the look-up memory being connected to the hardwired digital components to be addressed by the digital intermediate output, the memory providing a digital hue output.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus with shading compensation is provided such that an object to be sensed is moved with respect to light sensing elements and the same point of the object is sensed by different light sensing elements, whereby shading compensation information can be obtained. When a white reference board is used as the object, despite non-uniformity in brightness of the white reference board, uniform image sensing signals with proper shading compensation can be obtained independent of variations in sensitivity of the light sensing elements.

Abstract: An optical reader head with a video compensation circuit for use in high speed document reading. The reader head utilizes small focussed bulbs to illuminate the scanning line, with the head being comprised of first and second body sections housing a lens which focusses the light reflected from a document at the scanning line to a light array comprised of 256 sensors. Light from four adjacent sensors along the scanning line is integrated to produce a composite pixel which becomes one of 64 such composite pixels for a scanning line of data permitting the use of low wattage bulbs and also eliminating the possibility of burning a jammed document. A peak comparison PROM is used for adjusting document background levels, for example, for use in thresholding the pixel data.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for recording halftone dot images on a photosensitive material by emitting a light beam which is modulated in accordance with digital image data. In a screen pattern memory (23), screen pattern data provided with a value for each element area which is smaller than a light spot diameter of a light beam on a surface of a photosensitive material is stored. The level of a screen pattern signal obtained from the screen pattern data and that of an image signal obtained from digital image data are compared in a comparator (22). An intensity of the light beam is modulated according to a result of comparison in the comparator (22). Because the screen pattern signal is given as a high density signal, the light beam is modulated in each element area which is smaller than a light spot diameter.