Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units configured to process packets each including data and extended identification information added to the data, the extended identification information including identification information for identifying the data and instruction information indicating one or more processing instructions to the data, each processing unit in the plurality of processing units including: an input/output unit configured to obtain, in the packets, only a packet whose address information indicates said each processing unit in the plurality of processing units, the address information determined in accordance with the extended identification information; and an operation unit configured to execute the processing instruction in the packet obtained by the input/output unit.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units configured to process packets each including data and extended identification information added to the data, the extended identification information including identification information for identifying the data and instruction information indicating one or more processing instructions to the data, each processing unit in the plurality of processing units including: an input/output unit configured to obtain, in the packets, only a packet whose address information indicates said each processing unit in the plurality of processing units, the address information determined in accordance with the extended identification information; and an operation unit configured to execute the processing instruction in the packet obtained by the input/output unit.

Abstract: Parallelism of processing can be improved while existing software resources are utilized substantially as they are. A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units configured to process packets each including data and extended identification information added to the data, the extended identification information including identification information for identifying the data and instruction information indicating one or more processing instructions to the data, each processing unit in the plurality of processing units including: an input/output unit configured to obtain, in the packets, only a packet whose address information indicates said each processing unit in the plurality of processing units, the address information determined in accordance with the extended identification information; and an operation unit configured to execute the processing instruction in the packet obtained by the input/output unit.

Abstract: A data-processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units having frequency bands different from one another set thereto, the plurality of processing units to process packets each including data and processing information added to the data, the processing information including instruction information indicating one or more processing instructions to the data, each processing unit in the processing units including: an input/output unit to obtain, in the packets, only a packet whose address indicates the processing unit in the processing units, the address determined in accordance with the processing information; and an operation unit to execute the processing instruction in the packet obtained by the input/output unit, the input/output unit including a receiving unit to receive only an electromagnetic wave having a frequency band set to the processing unit and obtain the packet.

Abstract: A data-processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units having frequency bands different from one another set thereto, the plurality of processing units to process packets each including data and processing information added to the data, the processing information including instruction information indicating one or more processing instructions to the data, each processing unit in the processing units including: an input/output unit to obtain, in the packets, only a packet whose address indicates the processing unit in the processing units, the address determined in accordance with the processing information; and an operation unit to execute the processing instruction in the packet obtained by the input/output unit, the input/output unit including a receiving unit to receive only an electromagnetic wave having a frequency band set to the processing unit and obtain the packet.

Abstract: Parallelism of processing can be improved while existing software resources are utilized substantially as they are. A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units configured to process packets each including data and extended identification information added to the data, the extended identification information including identification information for identifying the data and instruction information indicating one or more processing instructions to the data, each processing unit in the plurality of processing units including: an input/output unit configured to obtain, in the packets, only a packet whose address information indicates said each processing unit in the plurality of processing units, the address information determined in accordance with the extended identification information; and an operation unit configured to execute the processing instruction in the packet obtained by the input/output unit.

Abstract: In a relief printing plate according to an aspect of the present invention, the relief can be formed to have resistance to pressure applied to the apex thereof thanks to the depth (d) and the ridge tilt angle (x). In particular, the resistance to pressure against a relief serving as a highlight halftone dot can be improved to prevent the relief from falling over by the pressure applied to the apex of the relief. Thereby, the relief serving as a highlight halftone dot can be made not to be dipped in a cell of the ink roller (e.g., anilox roller).

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, on the relief printing plate where a relief serving as a halftone dot is formed on a surface of a plate material, an elliptical frustoconical relief is formed as the relief as well as the minor direction of the elliptical frustum matches the printing direction so that the longitudinal section of the relief in the same direction as in the printing direction is smaller than the longitudinal section of the relief in a direction orthogonal to the printing direction. Thereby, the relief having the aforementioned sectional shape has resistance to pressure as a whole of the relief as well as flexibility in the printing direction.

Abstract: A micro-mirror unit of data from a plot point formation element unit data to a plot unit of frame data. A micro-mirror unit of data to be sequentially supplied to a plurality of micro-mirrors is produced from an image data corresponding to an image to be formed in a plot screen by use of DMDs each having the plurality of micro-mirrors. An intermediate data is then produced by extracting data change points of the produced micro-mirror unit of data. The data is inverted for each of the data change points in the produced intermediate data, thereby performing the transportation from the micro-mirror unit of data to the DMD unit of frame data.

Abstract: A printing plate mounting apparatus includes a mounting mark information acquiring device which acquires mounting mark information formed on each of a plate-making drum provided in a plate-making apparatus, and a printing drum provided in a printing apparatus that prints an image on an object to be printed; an image creating device which creates an image of each color; a first calculating device which respectively calculates a size of each printing plate corresponding to the color image and a mounting position of the printing plate on each of the plate-making drum and the printing drum; a second calculating device which calculates a position of a plate-making positioning mark according to the mounting mark, and also calculates a position of a printing positioning mark according to the mounting mark; and a printing device which prints the plate-making positioning mark and the printing positioning mark on a printing plate support.

Abstract: A dot analysis apparatus includes a dot converging section that converges individual dots forming a dot image toward their respective centers, a selecting section that selects plural dot units each consisting of one main dot and plural sub-dots surrounding the main dot from the converged dots, a calculating section that calculates an interval between the main dot and the sub-dots of each dot unit and a direction of arrangement of the main dot and the sub-dots, and a statistic processing section that determines statistic distributions of the interval and the direction calculated for each dot unit by the calculating section and determines the interval and the direction corresponding to the peaks of their respective distributions as the interval between the regularly arranged dots forming the dot image and the direction of the regular arrangement of the dots forming the dot image, respectively.

Abstract: A micro-mirror unit of data from a plot point formation element unit data to a plot unit of frame data. A micro-mirror unit of data to be sequentially supplied to a plurality of micro-mirrors is produced from an image data corresponding to an image to be formed in a plot screen by use of DMDs each having the plurality of micro-mirrors. An intermediate data is then produced by extracting data change points of the produced micro-mirror unit of data. The data is inverted for each of the data change points in the produced intermediate data, thereby performing the transportation from the micro-mirror unit of data to the DMD unit of frame data.

Abstract: A compressed mirror data generator converts compressed data transmitted from a RIP server into compressed mirror data to be supplied to micromirrors of DMDS, and transmits the compressed data to an exposure unit. A frame data generator of the exposure unit decompresses the compressed mirror data, converts the decompressed mirror data into frame data, and supplies the frame data through a DMD controller to the DMDs, thereby controlling DMD micromirrors to record an image by way of exposure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drawing device. A drawing component includes a stage and a drawing head. The drawing head draws on a recording medium supported by the stage. A moving component relatively moves the stage and the drawing head. A position detection component detects a relative position of the stage and the drawing head. An error detection component detects an abnormal state in which an abnormal drawing is performed on the recording medium. When the abnormal state is detected, a controller stops drawing with the drawing head and returns the relative position from the stop position to the position of the drawing start side, so that drawing may be resumed from a position within a predetermined range including the stop position.

Abstract: A drawing point data obtainment method is a method for obtaining drawing point data that is used when an image is drawn on a drawing object by relatively moving a drawing point formation area, in which a drawing point is formed based on the drawing point data, with respect to the drawing object and by sequentially forming, based on the movement of the drawing point formation area, the drawing points on the drawing object. In the drawing point data obtainment method, information about a drawing point data track of the drawing point formation area in original image data of the image is obtained and a plurality of drawing point data sets corresponding to the drawing point data track is obtained, based on the obtained information about the drawing point data track, from the image data.

Abstract: An image is drawn on a substrate (12) by forming imaging spots on the substrate (12) based on the imaging spot data. The imaging spot data is obtained by obtaining vector format image data representing an image, obtaining coordinates of a position on the image data corresponding to a position on the substrate (12), and obtaining the imaging spot data of the imaging spots based on the vector format image data and the coordinates of the position.

Abstract: When a pixel pitch formed on a substrate is different from a micro mirror read pitch, image data is stored as divided image data having continuous memory addresses in a memory. It is possible to read data from the divided image data by memory read means rapidly (in a short time) so as to create mirror data.

Abstract: An image data storage method is provided for obtaining image drawing spot data to be inputted to an image drawing spot forming unit that forms image drawing spots on an image drawing surface. The method comprises the step of storing the image data in storage means in such a manner that a direction along which addresses in the storage means are consecutive agrees with a direction of arrangement of the image data corresponding to a predetermined scanning direction of the image drawing spot forming unit relative to the image drawing surface.

Abstract: In a method for obtaining drawing point data that is used for drawing an image on a substrate by moving, relative to the substrate, a plurality of drawing point formation units for forming drawing points based on the drawing point data and by sequentially forming, based on the movement, drawing points on the substrate, an address in a memory, at which image data representing an image corresponding to a drawing start position of each of drawing point formation units is stored, is obtained as a readout start address of each of the drawing point formation units. Further, drawing point data for each of the drawing point formation units is obtained by sequentially reading out image data from respective readout start addresses along the respective drawing point data paths in image data corresponding to the drawing paths of the drawing point formation units on the substrate.

Abstract: The drawing point data obtaining method and apparatus subject original image data to transformation processing to obtain transformed image data as drawing point data used to draw an image carried by the original image data on a drawing target. The method and apparatus maintain in advance multiple sets of transformed image data obtained by performing transformation processing on the original image data under multiple different transformation processing conditions, choose, as temporary transformed image data, one set obtained under a condition close to an entered transformation processing condition and perform the transformation processing on the thus chosen temporary transformed image data in accordance with a differential between the entered condition and the condition for the chosen temporary transformed image data to thereby obtain the transformed image data as the drawing point data.