Abstract: Systems and methods are described to detect a location to place an advertisement in a media asset, the method comprising, identifying a plurality of points in a video frame of a media asset, detecting a color associated with each point of the plurality of points, calculating a change in color between each point of the plurality of points, comparing the change in color between each point of the plurality of points with a threshold, identifying, based on the comparing, an area within the frame that constitutes a surface; and selecting an advertisement to be placed on the surface.

Abstract: A system and method are provided which enable overriding a custom color callout in a print job. Provision is made for a user to associate a unique ID with a custom color callout in a print job, e.g., during generation of the print job or at the printer. The custom color callout provides for a part of the print job to be rendered with a specific custom colorant, e.g., by identifying the name of the custom colorant. The unique ID is associated, in memory, with a custom colorant station of a print engine, independent of any custom colorant that may be housed in the custom colorant station. The method further includes identifying the custom colorant station of the print engine associated with the unique ID and sending the print job in a format for printing to the print engine for printing the part of the print job with a first custom colorant housed in the identified custom colorant station.

Abstract: A color printing system includes a color management server and one or more printing devices. The color management server manages color printing resources among the printing devices. A test chart is printed at a printing device and used to capture calibration measurement data. Calibration settings are defined for the calibration measurement data. A tone reproduction curve (TRC) is generated based on the calibration measurement data and the calibration settings. The TRC is stored with the TRC settings and calibration measurement data to be used at a printing device. Various operations are performed between different TRCs. The TRC settings are edited and the TRC associated with the measurement data is updated or regenerated to reflect the edited settings. More than one TRC is updated with the new settings if it uses the measurement data.

Abstract: A printed matter reviewed by a user is read, and a difference image is generated based on a first image obtained as a result of reading the printed matter and an electronic document that is a printing source from which the printed matter is generated. Based on the difference image, a process is performed to identify an instruction relating to a revision additionally written on the printed matter and a character string to be subjected to the revision in the electronic document. Thereafter, a particular process is executed on the electronic document based on the instruction related to the revision and the character string to which the revision is applied.

Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store halftone calibration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the halftone calibration logic to receive print image measurement data corresponding to a first halftone design associated with each of a plurality of pel forming elements, generate measurement data for each of the pel forming elements based on the print image measurement data, generate a uniformity compensated halftone for each of the pel forming elements based on inverse transfer functions corresponding to each of the pel forming elements and the first halftone design and transmit the uniformity compensated halftone for each of the pel forming elements.

Abstract: To enable highly accurate density unevenness correction while suppressing a reduction in productivity in printing accompanying correction value calculation for density unevenness correction. Based on an image obtained by scanning a chart including patches having uniform density for each tone value, a density characteristic of each nozzle is acquired. A non-ejectable nozzle that cannot eject ink normally is detected by analyzing a pattern for detecting the non-ejectable nozzle in the image obtained by scanning the chart. At the time of acquiring the density characteristic, the density characteristic is acquired based on a density measured value of an area of the image, which corresponds to a nozzle that is not detected as the non-ejectable nozzle.

Abstract: A printing system including a server connected to a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus via a network includes a reception unit configured to receive a request to print a file from the second information processing apparatus and a determination unit configured to determine whether a user associated with the second information processing apparatus has a right to print the file, wherein the printing system transmits a first notification for requesting a confirmation about whether to grant the right to the first information processing apparatus in a case where the determination unit determines that the user does not have the right, and wherein the printing system permits the file to be printed from a printing apparatus connected to the server in a case where a confirmation to grant the right is received from the first information processing apparatus as a response to the first notification.

Abstract: A printing system is described. The printing system includes a memory to store print performance prediction logic and a processor to execute the print performance prediction logic to train a prediction model, receive print job metadata, receive configuration criteria of a printing system and predict first processing performance measurements of the printing system using the prediction model to simulate the printing system based on the print job metadata and the configuration criteria.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for allowing a user to easily check the status of an image scanning apparatus. An image scanning apparatus is configured to transmit original document image data by storing, sequentially in a buffer, line data obtained by line-by-line scanning of an original document and transmitting the stored line data to a host computer sequentially line by line, and includes a control unit configured to perform control to transmit original document image data including notification image data to the host computer in a case where it is detected that the apparatus status of the image scanning apparatus is not normal during processing executed in response to a scan command received from the host computer, the notification image data being a notification of an error occurrence.

Abstract: A method for correcting an error in image printing, the method includes receiving a reference digital image (RDI). Based on a predefined selection criterion, one or more regions in the RDI that are suitable for use as anchor features for sensing the error, are automatically selected. A digital image (DI) acquired from a printed image of the RDI, is received and the one or more regions are automatically identified in the DI. Based on the anchor features of the DI, the error is automatically estimated in the printed image. A correction that, when applied to the DI, compensates for the estimated error, is calculated. The estimated error is corrected in a subsequent digital image (SDI) to be printed, and the SDI having the corrected error, is printed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a display that outputs execution screens of a plurality of applications, a memory that stores the plurality of applications, and a processor electrically connected with the display and the memory. The processor retrieves a history of one or more applications among the plurality of applications that were previously executed in the electronic device, in response to a user input detected by the electronic device and outputs the history on the display based on information about the one or more applications and information about layouts of execution screens of the one or more applications. If at least one of the one or more applications is selected from the history, the processor outputs an execution screen of the selected application on the display according to the corresponding layout.

Abstract: A method for evaluating a print quality of a printed document that is printed by a printer is provided. The printer comprises a pre-print image scanner, a post-print image scanner, and a printhead disposed between the pre-print image scanner and the post-print image scanner. The method comprises generating a pre-printing image of a print media, generating the printed document, generating a post-printing image of the printed document, generating a validation image by comparing the post-printing image with the pre-printing image, and comparing the validation image with the source image.

Abstract: Systems and methods for compressing dynamic unstructured point clouds. A plurality of destructive images of a dynamic unstructured point cloud can be captured from a plurality of viewpoints using one or more virtual cameras. One or more sequences of the destructive images can be formed. The one or more sequences of destructive images can then be compressed.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an input device and circuitry. The input device inputs data. The circuitry converts text information to be printed included in the data to generate converted information and outputs data for image formation including the converted information.

Abstract: A print expansion application is downloaded by using, as a key, a printer Hardware Identifier (HWID) acquired when a printer driver to be commonly used in an operating system (OS) is installed, and the print expansion application is associated with the printer driver.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions instruct a computer to perform processes including an acquisition step, a determination step, and a display step. The acquisition step includes acquiring a specified color. The determination step includes determining whether a device-independent color based on the specified color is present within a first color gamut based on first print settings of a printer. The display step includes displaying, when it is determined that the device-independent color is not present within the first color gamut, second print settings of the printer. The second print settings are different from the first print settings and cause a distance between the device-independent color and a second color gamut that is based on the second print settings to be smaller than a distance between the device-independent color and the first color gamut.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods to quickly and accurately identify boundaries of a displayed document in a live camera image feed, and provide a document boundary indicator within the live camera image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein utilize different display document detection processes in parallel to generate and provide a document boundary indicator that accurately corresponds with a displayed document within a live camera image feed. Thus, a user of the mobile computing device can easily see whether the document identification system has correctly identified the displayed document within the camera viewfinder feed.

Abstract: Embodiments provide for automated detection of a calibration object within a recorded image. In some embodiments, a system receives an original image from a camera, wherein the original image includes at least a portion of a calibration chart. The system further derives a working image from the original image. The system further determines regions in the working image, wherein each region comprises a group of pixels having values within a predetermined criterion. The system further analyzes two or more of the regions to identify a candidate calibration chart in the working image. The system further identifies at least one region within the candidate calibration chart as a patch. The system further predicts a location of one or more additional patches based on at least the identified patch.

Abstract: Provided is quantization processing that can reduce color development defect due to dot overlapping and can output an image with reduced granularity when the image is printed by using multiple kinds of colorants. To this end, dot arrangement information for a colorant for which dot arrangement is already determined among multiple kinds of colorants is acquired for a predetermined region of the image, and an evaluation value of each pixel included in the predetermined region is derived based on the arrangement information. In addition, for the predetermined region, a target value for a predetermined colorant for which dot arrangement is yet to be determined is derived based on the image. Then, whether or not to arrange a dot of the predetermined colorant in the predetermined region is determined based on the target value and the evaluation value.

Abstract: The current disclosure provides techniques for visualizing text expressions in spreadsheet cells in a more intuitive and user friendly manner by mapping syntactic elements of the text expressions to two-dimensional (2D) configurations of 2D elements, and displaying the 2D configurations in a graphical user interface, wherein the syntactic relationships between syntactic elements in the text expressions are rendered as spatial relationships between the 2D elements in the 2D configuration. In one embodiment, a method for converting a text expression into a 2D configuration comprises selecting a spreadsheet cell based on input received from a user input device, wherein the spreadsheet cell comprises a text expression, parsing the text expression, using a logic subsystem, into at least a first syntactic element, mapping the first syntactic element, using the logic subsystem, to a first two-dimensional (2D) element, and displaying the first 2D element in a graphical user interface via a display subsystem.

Abstract: An image inspection device includes a hardware processor executing an inspection for a first read image generated by reading a first sheet on which one image is formed, based on a reference image. When an operation for newly generating the reference image is performed in association with the inspection for the first read image, the hardware processor acquires second read images generated by respectively reading second sheets on each of which the one image is formed and generates the reference image using the inspection for the first read image. When an operation for using the generated reference image stored in a storage unit is performed in association with the inspection for the first read image, the hardware processor uses the reference image in the storage unit for the inspection for the first read image, without newly acquiring the second read images.

Abstract: A processing job generation apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires first information on a print image, and a processing position setting unit that causes a print image and a processing mark indicating a processing position of processing to be performed on the sheet to be simultaneously displayed on the display device, and sets a processing position on basis of the print image and the processing mark displayed on the display device.

Abstract: There is provided with an image processing device. An obtaining unit is configured to obtain a mixed spectral reflectance of a region in which a first color and a second color are mixed in an image including the first color and the second color, a plurality of first spectral reflectances of the first color, a plurality of first halftone dots associated with respective ones of the plurality of first spectral reflectances, a plurality of second spectral reflectances of the second color, and a plurality of second halftone dots associated with respective ones of the plurality of second spectral reflectances.

Abstract: A verification apparatus includes reads an image on a sheet conveyed using a plurality of imaging units configured to respectively perform reading in read regions different from each other in a predetermined direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the sheet, the read regions respectively corresponding to adjacent imaging units partially overlapping with each other. The apparatus performs processing of changing a size, in the predetermined direction, of a larger one of a read image obtained by reading the image on the sheet by each of the plurality of imaging units, and a corresponding reference image, in accordance with a size of a smaller one, and performs verification by comparing the read image corresponding to each of the plurality of imaging units with the corresponding reference image, after the processing has been completed.

Abstract: A method includes transcoding a first block of a video. The first block is associated with a first block tree pattern defining a structure of splitting a block into smaller blocks. A bit string of bits for the first block tree pattern is included in an encoded bitstream for the video. The method determines that the first block tree pattern of the first block can be reused for a second block tree pattern of a second block and includes information in the encoded bitstream that indicates that the first block tree pattern is to be used to decode the second block from the encoded bitstream.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first developing unit configured to develop an image, a second developing unit by which a developed image better than a developed image developed by the first developing unit is obtained, an estimation unit configured to estimate an improvement effect of a quality of the developed image obtained using the second developing unit instead of the first developing unit, and a notification unit configured to notify content based on the improvement effect estimated by the estimation unit.

Abstract: A test color sheet of color strips of color patches is used in calibration operations for a printing device. Control color patches are used to identify each color strip and the scanning direction of any measured data captured by a color measurement tool. The control color patches have a unique pattern for each row. The patterns are changed according to an updating process that associates each unique pattern with its respective color strip. Scanning operations may be done in any sequence or direction without having to update the data being captured. The control color patches include a specified control color that differs from the color patches used for calibration operations.

Abstract: A printing method includes a customizing step of receiving a customization instruction of an administrator and customizing a printing screen, a printing step of performing printing in response to reception of a printing start instruction, and a displaying step of displaying the customized printing screen during the printing step, in which when an error occurs in the printing step and then the error is resolved and printing is resumed, a display is performed by switching to an uncustomized printing screen immediately after resuming.

Abstract: This application discloses a method for adjusting image luminance performed at an electronic device. The method includes: determining a target pixel with original luminance lower than a luminance threshold in an original image, the luminance threshold being determined according to luminance of pixels in the original image; obtaining a luminance distribution intensity of pixels adjacent to the target pixel; determining a difference between the luminance threshold and the luminance distribution intensity of the adjacent pixels; and adjusting the target pixel to corresponding target luminance according to the difference and the original luminance of the target pixel. According to this application, a changing characteristic of relative luminance between the target pixel and the adjacent pixel is reserved. The luminance adjustment is more consistent with the luminance propagation of the original image, thereby achieving a technical effect of improving an adjustment effect of luminance adjustment on an image.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tuning method and apparatus for a color gamut mapping device, in which a tuning time is shortened by automatically setting and changing parameters of a register when tuning the color gamut mapping device. A tuning method of a color gamut mapping device according to an aspect includes an initial setting operation of setting, by a test device, initial parameters in a register of a color gamut mapping device, a measuring operation of measuring, by a measuring device, chromaticity for each of a plurality of color images which are supplied from the test device and displayed on a panel of a display device through the color gamut mapping device, an automatic tuning operation of changing, by the test device, saturation parameters and hue parameters of a plurality of hue axes of the color gamut mapping device by using a result measured from the measuring device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for iterating between a graphical user interface and an expression for data visualization. Exemplary methods include: receiving an edited expression from a user, the edited expression including changes to the expression and being associated with a component; evaluating the edited expression; displaying the component using the evaluation of the edited expression; determining a user interface block using the edited expression; and presenting the user interface block to the user in a graphical user interface.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a conveyer; head chips; a circulation channel; and a controller. Each head chip includes a manifold; a nozzle group, and actuators. Each head chip is configured to execute discharge drive and non-discharge vibration drive. The head chips include: an end head chip; a facing head chip facing the recording medium; and a non-facing head chip not facing the recording medium. The controller is configured to make at least one of a circulation flowing amount of a liquid in the circulation channel in the facing head chip and a frequency of the non-discharge vibration drive by an actuator included in the actuators in the facing head chip larger than those of the non-facing head chip.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire physical property information on physical properties of a recording medium and on physical properties of an ink to be ejected onto the recording medium and setting information on a setting of a device configured to eject the ink onto the recording medium, the ink including a first ink and a second ink, derive an action amount using the physical property information and the setting information, the action amount relating to an action of the second ink ejected at a position different from a position where the first ink is ejected, the second ink ejected being acted upon by behavior of the first ink, and output the action amount.

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for: receiving a digital image data; modifying the digital image data to reduce a width of a feature within the digital image data; executing a dimension reduction process on the feature; storing a feature vector comprising: at least one feature for each of the received digital image data, and a correct or incorrect label associated with each feature vector; selecting the feature vector from a data store; training a classification software engine to classify each feature vector according to the label; classifying the image data as correct or incorrect according to a classification software engine; and generating an output labeling a second digital image data as correct or incorrect.

Abstract: An inkjet ink set consisting of a black inkjet ink, a cyan inkjet ink and two inkjet inks A and B, optionally complemented by a white ink and/or a colourless ink, wherein the inkjet ink A has a hue angle H* between 70 and 85 and a chroma C* between 30 and 80; the inkjet ink B has a hue angle H* between 20 and 40 and a chroma C* between 30 and 80; and the CIE L* a* b* coordinates were determined on polyethylene coated white paper for a 2° observer under a D50 light source.

Abstract: A printing apparatus corrects image data for printing on the basis of a color measurement result obtained by a sensor, prints a set of first color tone correction patches on a first sheet with a predetermined size and prints a set of a second color tone correction patches on a second sheet with the predetermined size. When the first sheet and the second sheet are printed one after another, a color measurement result of the tone correction patches printed on the first sheet and the second sheet is used in correcting the image data for printing. When the first sheet and the second sheet with the predetermined size are not printed one after another, a color measurement result of the tone correction patches printed on the first sheet and the second sheet for correcting the image data for printing is not used in correcting the image data for printing.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an image forming apparatus configured to print files stored in a plurality of servers. The image forming apparatus comprises a retaining unit configured to retain files transmitted according to an instruction issued by a user, a display control unit configured to control a display of a print instruction screen that includes a first list generated based on a storage file list showing files, which are files stored in any one of the plurality of servers and correspond to user authentication information inputted when logging into the image forming apparatus, and a second list showing the retained files, and a printing unit configured to print files selected by the user on the print instruction screen. The first list is a list obtained by synthesizing a plurality of the storage file lists that are transmitted from the plurality of servers, respectively.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display device, a first detection unit, a second detection unit, a first acquisition unit, and an output unit. The display device displays at least one image for display. The first detection unit detects a user's selection of an image for display in at least one image for display. The second detection unit detects an input to a drawing region of drawing indicating an image quality abnormality with respect to a target image corresponding to the selected image for display. The first acquisition unit acquires drawing information based on the input of the drawing detected by the second detection unit. The output unit outputs the drawing information acquired by the first acquisition unit.

Abstract: An operation verifying apparatus of a first embodiment acquires a log indicating the content of a sequence of operations performed on a predetermined device, identifies corresponding functions from the log, and automatically generates a program based on the identified functions. Input data, which is to serve as an argument of each of these functions, is set. Execution sets as well as test scenarios are each structured by combining a program and input data. Then each execution set is continuously executed. As a result, an operation test using a test program is executed.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for adjusting an input image based on a perceived appearance of the input image on a target display and on an ideal display. The method includes: receiving an input image; determining a target display perceived appearance of the input image, wherein the target display perceived appearance represents a perceived appearance of the input image according to a target display; determining an ideal display perceived appearance of the input image, wherein the ideal display perceived appearance represents a perceived appearance of the input image according to an ideal display; and adjusting the input image based on the target display perceived appearance and the ideal display perceived appearance.

Abstract: A first dot pattern printed according to a result of quantization performed on a multi-valued grayscale value by using a first threshold matrix and a second dot pattern printed according to a result of quantization performed on multi-valued grayscale value by using a second threshold matrix are printed on a print medium in an overlapping manner. In order to generate the threshold matrices, a first initial pattern being a dot pattern corresponding to a first grayscale value and a second initial pattern being a dot pattern corresponding to a second grayscale value lower than the first grayscale value are generated for pixel regions of the first and second threshold matrices. Then, thresholds of the first and second threshold matrices are set such that dot patterns having continuity with the first and second initial patterns are obtained at grayscale values between the first and second grayscale values.

Abstract: A printing method includes a customizing step of receiving a customization instruction of an administrator and customizing a printing screen, a printing step of performing printing in response to reception of a printing start instruction, and a displaying step of displaying the customized printing screen during the printing step, in which in the displaying step, at least one of a plurality of printing screens including the customized printing screen is automatically selected and displayed depending on a status in the printing step.

Abstract: In a printer, a controller determines a type of print medium currently mounted in a mount portion, and acquires a first set of print data correlated with a first medium type and a second set of print data correlated with a second medium type. In a case that a print medium of the first medium type is mounted in the mount portion, a print portion prints a first print image based on the first set of print data, and thereafter prints a second print image based on the second set of print data. In a case that a print medium of the second medium type is mounted in the mount portion, the print portion prints the second print image based on the second set of print data, and thereafter prints the first print image based on the first set of print data.

Abstract: The described herein is a method for identifying a best match to a metal deco target color and distributing the best match to interested parties for ongoing validation. The method creates a digital proofing database that matches, for example, PantoneLIVE™ target colors and sets a defined digital inkjet standard to within desired tolerances. Also described is a system that implements the method.

Abstract: A printing method includes a customizing step of receiving a customization instruction of an administrator and customizing a printing screen, a printing step of performing printing in response to reception of a printing start instruction, and a displaying step of displaying the customized printing screen during the printing step, in which in the customizing step, required information is prohibited from being deleted from a display, and optional information is permitted to be deleted from the display.

Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store ink model estimation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the ink model estimation logic to generate color space ink model parameter data for a print system based on an ink deposition data and color space measurement data for one of a plurality of inks for the print system.

Abstract: A print system includes a print job generating device including a print job generating section configured to generate a print job including ink color information indicating ink colors to be used in printing and raster image data for each of the ink colors, and a transmission section configured to transmit the generated print job to an image forming device, and an image forming device including a reception section configured to receive a print job transmitted from the transmission section, a processing section configured to determine ink colors to be used in printing and ink colors not to be used in printing based on the ink color information included in the print job, and a display controller configured to display preview images indicated by the raster image data of the ink colors to be used in printing in a display section based on a result of the determination.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter device may determine whether a packet, to be transmitted by the transmitter device, is compressed; generate a header for transmission of the packet based at least in part on the determination, wherein the header includes a context identifier indicating whether the packet is compressed; and transmit the packet and the header. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an image former which forms a tone pattern image on a sheet conveyed from a sheet feeding deck, a color measurer which performs color measurement by reading the tone pattern image formed by the image former, and one or more controllers including one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more controllers are configured to generate tone correction data based on a difference between color measurement results by the color measurer and a reference value, and perform tone correction for print target image data by using the generated tone correction data. The reference value is registered in association with a type of sheet that is accommodated in the sheet feeding deck, and in a case where the type of sheet that is accommodated in the sheet feeding deck is changed, the reference value is cleared.

Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes the following. A reader reads a sheet in which an image is printed, reads the sheet together with a background, and obtains a read image. A background member is provided in a position which is to be a background of the sheet when the sheet is read by the reader. A hardware processor extracts sheet outline information of the sheet from the read image and measures a misalignment of a position of the image with relation to the sheet based on the extracted sheet outline information. The hardware processor performs control based on a measured result of the misalignment of the position of the image. The hardware processor adjusts a degree of control performed based on the measured result of the misalignment of the position of the image according to a density difference between the sheet and the background member.