Abstract: In a host computer, a print processor generates, in a drawing region of a memory device context, additional raster data for drawing an additional drawing in addition to drawing information regarding a logical page included in an Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) spool file, and a graphics driver (GD) module of a printer driver combines document raster data generated in a drawing region of a printer device context with the additional raster data, and generates print data based on post-combination raster data.

Abstract: A printing device includes a print head, a measuring member, and a controller. The print head prints a patch chart on a print medium. The patch chart includes a plurality of first patches and one or more second patches. Each first patch has a predetermined color. Each second patch has a user specified color represented by an input color value. The measuring member measures a color of a patch. The controller performs a second-patch measurement process to control the measuring member to measure a color of each second patch a plurality of times to acquire a plurality of color values for the each second patch. The controller calculates an average value of at least two of the plurality of color values for the each second patch, and generates a table correlating an input color value with the average value as a measured color value for the each second patch.

Abstract: With Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), facial alignment networks (FAN) have achieved significant accuracy on a wide range of public datasets, which comes along with larger model size and expensive computation costs, making it infeasible to adapt them to real-time applications on edge devices. There is provided a model compression approach on FAN using One-Shot Neural Architecture Search to overcome this problem while preserving performance criteria. Methods and devices provide efficient training and searching (on a single GPU), and resultant models can deploy to run real-time in browser-based applications on edge devices including tablets and smartphones. The compressed models provide comparable cutting-edge accuracy, while having a 30 times smaller model size and can run 40.7 ms per frame in a popular browser on a popular smartphone and OS.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing a decorative combination for furniture items and/or interior fixtures. The problem addressed of providing a method for producing a decorative combination, for which the matching of said combination with respect to a change of illuminant is further simplified, is solved by a method including the steps: carrying out colorimetric measurements, under at least two different illuminants, on a first decorative element of a first fixture; determining a reference colour change of the first decorative element when the change between the at least two different illuminants is made; printing a second decorative element onto a second fixture, a selection and/or combination of inks for the printing process being carried out on the basis of a colour change of the inks under a change of illuminant, such that a colour change of the second decorative element under the change of the at least two different illuminants is compared to the reference colour change.

Abstract: A method of printing authentication indicia by applying an at least amplitude-modulated halftone print in a detection zone to an object uses adjoining halftone cells, in each of which a halftone dot is printed from a matrix of printable halftone elements, individual tone values of the halftone print corresponding in each case to a halftone plane of a halftone mountain for a halftone dot. In this process, the assigned screen plane of the screen mountain is modified in the detection zone in a predetermined manner for a plurality of tone values of screen dots to be printed, so that a predetermined matrix image of the screen elements to be printed is assigned to it while the tone value of the print remains constant.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus acquires, with respect to a pixel of interest, a combination of a plurality of pixel values representing respective ink application amounts of a plurality of color inks including at least one basic color ink and a fluorescent ink containing a dispersion element having a fluorescent property, determines whether a total value of the plurality of pixel values is larger than a threshold value, and, in a case where it is determined that the total value is larger than the threshold value, reduces a pixel value for at least one ink of the at least one basic color ink in such a manner that an amount by which to reduce a pixel value for the fluorescent ink becomes smaller than an amount by which to reduce a pixel value corresponding to at least one ink of the at least one basic color ink.

Abstract: In a server system, the computer stores in the printer a usable print quantity in association with a printer in response to an increase request from an external device. The increase request is a request to store an increased quantity as the usable print quantity. The usable print quantity indicates one of the number of sheets and an amount of colorant which are usable for printing in the printer. The computer determines, after a communication interface is disconnected from the printer, whether a reconnection is established between the communication interface and the printer. The computer determines, when the reconnection is determined to be established, whether the usable print quantity has been reflected in data in the printer. The computer sends to the printer, when the usable print quantity is determined not to have been reflected in any data in the printer, a reflecting instruction to reflect the usable print quantity.

Abstract: A printing device prints a patch chart including a plurality of first patches having a predetermined color and one or more second patches having a user specified color. A measuring member measures a color of a patch. The patch chart includes a plurality of patch columns having two or more patches among the plurality of patches arranged linearly. In a case that a patch column of the plurality of patch columns includes a second patch of the plurality of second patches, a controller performs a calibration process to calibrate the measuring member by controlling the measuring member to measure a color of a reference; and after the calibration process is completed, a color measurement process for a patch included in the patch column including the second patch, the color measurement process for the patch being to control the measuring member to measure a color of the patch.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology to control the printing of halftoning screen signatures for various levels of prints. For example, such prints may include regular edition prints or limited edition prints. During printing, a first halftoning screen is associated with one or more of the regular edition prints and a second halftoning screen is associated with the limited edition print, in some implementations. The second halftoning screen has a spatial frequency that is substantially the same as the first halftoning screen while having a spatial signature different from the first halftoning screen. Additionally, the second halftoning screen further may have spectral properties that are substantially the same as the first halftoning screen. During printing, two different printed copies of an image are formed using the first halftoning screen and the second halftoning screen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive information regarding a size of an image, a setting value regarding N-in-one printing, and a post-processing position from an information processing apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine whether the received setting value regarding the N-in-one printing is a predetermined setting value, a change unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the received setting value regarding the N-in-one printing is the predetermined setting value, change the received post-processing position based on the received information regarding the size of the image, and an image forming unit configured to form the image received from the information processing apparatus on a recording medium.

Abstract: A facial recognition method includes receiving, by an electronic device, a first instruction triggering the electronic device to perform facial recognition, emitting in response to the first instruction, infrared light with a light spot using an infrared projector, collecting first image information of a first object using a first camera, collecting second image information of the first object using a second camera, calculating depth information of the first object based on the first image information, the second image information, the first length, a lens focal length of the first camera, and a lens focal length of the second camera, and performing user identity verification on the first object using the first image information and the depth information of the first object.

Abstract: The printing device includes a print head, a plurality of measuring members, and a controller. The print head is configured to print a patch chart on a print medium. The patch chart includes a plurality of patches including a plurality of first patches and one or more second patches. Each first patch has a predetermined color. Each second patch has a user specified color represented by an input color value. Each of the plurality of measuring members is configured to measure a color of a patch. The controller is configured to perform: a second-patch measurement process to control each of the plurality of measuring members to measure a color of each second patch to acquire a plurality of color values for the each second patch.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a displayer capable of displaying an operation guide for the image forming apparatus; a first communicator that performs communication for acquiring the operation guide from an external device via a network; a second communicator that performs short-range wireless communication with a terminal of a user operating the image forming apparatus; and a controller that performs control of notifying, from the second communicator, the terminal of access information of accessing the external device for acquiring the operation guide, in a case where a failure has occurred in communication by the first communicator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of generating “expanded color chart” representing various ink combination, for profiling a multi-color printing device or printer, using “reduced set of color chart”, printed using the printer, where a. The expanded color chart is computed by applying “Error Correction” function to the expanded color chart predicted using a theoretical model of color prediction for a given ink combinations in the expanded chart. b. Error Correction function is computed/modelled as function of the variance/difference observed between the color values predicted by the theoretical model and the actual values measured for the ink combinations in the printed “reduced set of color chart”.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus acquires a print job, selects printing paper according to an operation on an operation device, acquires a color conversion dictionary from among color conversion dictionaries corresponding to respective representative paper sorted into a plurality of groups based on physical property of the selected printing paper, presents information on the color conversion dictionary through a display, receives an operation input indicating whether to accept or to reject a presented color conversion dictionary through the operation device, and converts color information of the print job using the color conversion dictionary accepted by the operation input received through the operation device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and a method for detecting and tracking objects. The method includes permuting an order of frames in a sequence of radar image frames to produce multiple permuted sequences with different frames at a dominant position in a corresponding permuted sequence of radar image frames. Each permuted sequence of radar image frames is processed with a first neural network to produce temporally enhanced features for each of the frames in the sequence of radar image frames. Further a feature map is reconstructed from the temporally enhanced features of each of the frames in the sequence of radar image frames to produce a sequence of feature maps. The method further includes processing a list of feature vectors from each feature map with a second neural network to produce temporally enhanced heatmaps.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a color enhancement method, an image-forming apparatus and a storage medium. The method includes dividing color band data to-be-processed into a plurality of color blocks; counting a quantity of exposure points of each color channel of each color block in an apparatus color space, and generating an exposure point distribution image corresponding to each color block; converting the exposure point distribution image into a color image in a preset color space; calculating a color feature value corresponding to each color block according to the color image in the preset color space; and determining whether the color block needs image enhancement; and if the color block needs the image enhancement, modifying a weight of each color channel in the apparatus color space according to the color feature value, and outputting modified data of each color channel according to the modified weight of each color channel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for comparing a reference colour profile or the color space value of the reference color profile of an analogue reference pattern with a decorative-element-specific color profile or the color space value of the decorative-element-specific color profile of a digital or analogue decorative element. In the course of the process, a reference color profile is created by reading in and storing measurement data of at least one portion of an analogue reference pattern by means of a hyperspectral area measuring device. According to the invention, a decorative-element-specific color profile is created either from the digital data of a digital decorative element or using hyperspectral area measurement of at least one portion of an analogue decorative element.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first obtainment unit configured to obtain high dynamic range (HDR) data that represents a high-dynamic range (HDR) image, a second obtainment unit configured to obtain print information to perform printing based on the HDR data obtained by the first obtainment unit, a third obtainment unit configured to obtain display information of a display apparatus that is to perform a display based on the HDR data, and a conversion unit configured to perform dynamic range conversion based on the display information obtained by the third obtainment unit, and then to perform dynamic range conversion based on the print information obtained by the second obtainment unit.