Abstract: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in quantifiable terms, the electronic document is measure using various quantifiable factors; such as, balance, uniformity, white space management, alignment, consistency, legibility, etc.; that impact a qualitative nature of a document. Such quantifiable factors are then used to quantize the aesthetics, ease of use, eye-catching ability, interest, communicability, comfort, and convenience of the document.

Abstract: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in quantifiable terms, the electronic document is measure using various quantifiable factors; such as, balance, uniformity, white space management, alignment, consistency, legibility, etc.; that impact a qualitative nature of a document. Such quantifiable factors are then used to quantize the aesthetics, ease of use, eye-catching ability, interest, communicability, comfort, and convenience of the document.

Abstract: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in quantifiable terms, the electronic document is measure using various quantifiable factors; such as, balance, uniformity, white space management, alignment, consistency, legibility, etc.; that impact a qualitative nature of a document. Such quantifiable factors are then used to quantize the aesthetics, ease of use, eye-catching ability, interest, communicability, comfort, and convenience of the document.

Abstract: Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's interests. To analyze the qualitative nature of the layout in quantifiable terms, the electronic document is measure using various quantifiable factors; such as, balance, uniformity, white space management, alignment, consistency, legibility, etc.; that impact a qualitative nature of a document. Such quantifiable factors are then used to quantize the aesthetics, ease of use, eye-catching ability, interest, communicability, comfort, and convenience of the document.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for fast computation of associative operations over fixed size regions of a digital image. More particularly, this invention relates to the application of associative operations—such as MINIMUM, MAXIMUM, AND and OR—to fixed size regions of a digital image such as hexagonal, octagonal and rectangular regions. This is accomplished by tiling the image and calculating two-dimensional running calculations of the operator for each possible corner overlap configuration of a window that is run over the tiles of the image and thus used to analyze the image.

Abstract: A method and device for creating a notarized document from a document, comprising acquiring image data of the document; generating a document data file based on the image data, the document data file comprising a exemplar table and a block table; and appending the document data file to the document.

Abstract: A method for mapping a color specification to colorant amounts when a first and a second colorant have a similar hue involves the division of portions of color space into regions. Colors of the similar hue are rendered with a first colorant, a second colorant or a blend of the first and second colorants depending on which region of a color specification space the color specification is related. An image processor operative to map color descriptions via the method includes a colorant splitters operative to map a color description to colorant amounts for colorants of similar hue. In a xerographic environment, such an image processor includes a xerographic printer.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for controlling consumable use in an image-rendering device. More particularly, the invention relates to a image-rendering device that facilitates the limitation of page costs of color documents by establishing a threshold cost limitation and controlling one or more colorant amounts to be used on the page to ensure that the cost limitation is met. An optional override mode may be provided, wherein a selected page or pages, or a complete document, would be rendered without implementation of the cost reduction feature.

Abstract: One of the sections of nozzles of a fluid ejection head ejects a first one of different fluids and has a width in the process direction that is N times wider than the width in the process direction of other sections of the fluid ejection head. Data corresponding to the first one of the different fluids is collected in a first data buffer until the first data buffer is full. The fluid ejection head is controlled to eject all of the different fluids only when the first data buffer is full.

Abstract: A method and apparatus selectively displays a processor generated image in accordance with user instructions detected by a processor from a processor viewing device disposed to view a real reference item controlled by the user. The real item, preferably a page of paper, is disposed as a reference frame for an electronic image to be displayed. The orientation of the page is identified by the system. Corresponding real world coordinates are computed for the captured image and compared with predetermined standards to verify the nature of the object.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for identifying a position of an object in free space using a video image wherein the object is comprised of at least three equidistantly spaced, co-linear beads. The video image is captured on a view plane of a video camera system and represented on a frame memory thereof. Relative positions of the beads on the frame memory are determined and corresponding coordinate positions of the beads in the free space are calculated based upon the determined relative spacings and known camera system geometries. The object may also include an alignment indicator so that the pointing direction of the object can be determined.

Abstract: A system and method descreen halftone images into a continuous tone image while preserving edge detail and reducing initial image blur. The descreening can be applied to monochrome or color images. Descreening is achieved by first using a low pass filter to form a blurred image of the original, which is used to guide future image filtering, but which further filtering is applied to the original image. The intelligent filtering is provided by a Sigma filter, which can be performed in a single iteration and sized and shaped according to values of the blurred image. The system and method can take a block-oriented approach that performs analysis for an entire block of pixels rather than on individual pixels. This further improves the implementation speed of the process.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling page cost in an image rendering device. More particularly, the invention relates to a system and technique that facilitates the limitations of page costs of color documents by establishing a threshold cost limitation and controlling the colorant amounts to be used on the page to ensure that the cost limitation is met.

Abstract: An image processing method and system compensates for artifacts in scaling operations of mixed raster content data representations. In such data representations, a document is segmented into data portions generally segregated by data types. At least one of the segments is dilated so that upon scaling reconstruction, there are additional pixels available for interpolation operations, thereby avoiding artifacts caused by discontinuity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a methodology for assembling a document from content spanning multiple web-pages. Given a starting location, one process analyzes a single page at a time to find candidate links. The links are recursively followed and those pages are analyzed. A detailed set of heuristics is used to determine what is or is not a candidate link. The candidate pages are then optionally fed to a document-level analyzer. This process compares the attributes of one page against the others and looks for a document-like structure. Using another detailed set of heuristics, the document-level analyzer determines if the page should be included in the document.

Abstract: In a document processing device, reproduction of documents in a variety of modes or formats is aided by describing a document as a combination of document data and a document intent vector, associated with a created document to support document processing. The document intent vector captures high-level intent information such as the desire to attract attention, to limit costs, or to convey information effectively. Each component of the vector expresses the degree of intention along an intent dimension. The components are continuous numerical values allowing the vector to represent a continuum of intent expressions. The overall intent is a point in the intent space as expressed by the vector.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a system and method to generate a style sheet comprising the steps of first determining a set of layout constraints such as design criteria to act as ‘soft’ constraints or could additionally include the requirements of a particular output device. Alternatively, the constraints could be explicitly specified or expressed as properties of a good layout design. Next, the present method has the step of representing the style properties of the document as problem variables. These variables could advantageously include font, text line, or color properties in addition to positioning properties including graphical style. Then, solving the constraint problem and outputting the generated style properties in the form of a style sheet wherein the style sheet is a Cascaded Style Sheet (CSS) or an Extensible Style Language (XSL) specification.

Abstract: One of the sections of nozzles of a fluid ejection head ejects a first one of different fluids and has a width in the process direction that is N times wider than the width in the process direction of other sections of the fluid ejection head. Data corresponding to the first one of the different fluids is collected in a first data buffer until the first data buffer is full. The fluid ejection head is controlled to eject all of the different fluids only when the first data buffer is full.

Abstract: Color documents are reproduced in black-and-white in a manner that preserves color information through halftoning. Each image element on a color document is assigned a tag on the basis of its hue angle. The tag associates with that image element a particular halftone cell. The halftone cell has a distinct pattern associated with a pre-selected range of hue angles. The halftone cell is then applied to the luminance component of the image element. The result is a black-and-white image in which different hues appear as different halftone cells having distinct patterns and variations in the luminance are represented by the density of the resulting halftone.

Abstract: An apparatus and method that provide consistent output across a plurality of different hard copy output devices which may be included in a system comprising an image data source and a hard copy output device. The image data source supplies image data to a printable image data adjusting apparatus. The image data supplied may be in a device-dependent color space or a device-independent color space. If the image data is in a device-dependent color space, the printable image data adjusting apparatus first converts the image data into device-independent image data and stores it in memory as target image data. If the image data is already device-independent image data, the image data are simply stored in the memory of the printable image data adjusting apparatus as target image data. The printable image data adjusting apparatus then uses the target image data to generate printable image data. The hard copy output device uses the printable image data to generate a hard copy image.