Abstract: A method for reproducing a document is provided. The method includes the following steps: scanning a front side and a back side of an original and accordingly producing a front side image and a back side image; determining a size of the original; comparing the size of the original with a page size; and if the size of the original is determined smaller than one half of the page size, producing one-page image data representing the front side image and the back side image on one single page. An apparatus for reproducing the document is also disclosed.

Abstract: A scanner apparatus comprises a transparent platen having a top side and a bottom side opposite the top side, and an optical sensor unit positioned adjacent the bottom side of the transparent platen. The optical sensor unit scans an image of at least one item placed on the top side of the platen to produce an electronic scanned image of the item. Further, a weight sensor unit is connected to the transparent platen. The weight sensor unit senses the weight of the item placed on the top side of the platen to produce an item weight. A processor is operatively connected to the optical sensor unit and to the weight sensor unit. The processor combines the electronic scanned image of the item and the item weight to produce image and weight data, and the processor outputs the image and weight data.

Abstract: A color space converter converts data points from one color space to another color space using a lookup table. Color space converters may be used in any device that involves image processing, such as displays and printers. An interface receives an input value in a first color space. A controller access a lookup table stored in memory to determine an upper bound and a lower bound of a subset of the color space. An output value is interpolated between the upper bound and the lower bound using interpolation values. The interpolation values of the last subset in any dimension of the color space are modified by a scale factor to approximate ideal values.

Abstract: A print data processing apparatus process variable print data includes a cache unit, a determination unit, a determining unit, and a writing unit. The cache unit caches image data generated according to a drawing command included in the variable print data as cache data in a cache memory. The determination unit determines whether it is necessary to write the cache data in a secondary storage medium that is different from the cache memory. The determining unit determines cache data to be written in the secondary storage medium, in response to the determination unit determining that it is necessary to write the cache data in the secondary storage medium, based on a number of pages to be processed before each cache data cached in the cache memory is used next. The writing unit writes the cache data determined by the determining unit in the secondary storage medium.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit that includes plural photoelectric conversion elements arranged therein and that reads an image using light, the light being reflected by a document transported to a read position and being received by the plural photoelectric conversion elements, a reference plate that is disposed at the read position, a correction data generating unit that generates correction data by modifying second reference data on the basis of a ratio of first reference data to the second reference data, the first reference data being obtained by the image reading unit using light reflected by the reference plate in a clean state, the second reference data being obtained by the image reading unit using light reflected by the reference plate before reading an image, and an image correcting unit that corrects the image on the basis of the correction data generated by the correction data generating unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus accepts input of transfer sheet identification information, forms an image on a transfer sheet based on a control value corresponding to the accepted transfer sheet identification information, and accepts input of a correction value of the control value and stores the correction value in correspondence with the transfer sheet identification information in a storage unit. The image is formed on the transfer sheet based on the control value that is corrected by the correction value when the control value is stored in correspondence with the accepted transfer sheet identification information.

Abstract: When an input value is a standard value which is smaller than a maximum value (for example, 230), all pixels of a screen matrix is printed with the same output value (for example, 195), when the input value is within the range not more than the standard value, the output value is limited to not more than 195, and number of the pixels is changed so as to express graduation. In the range where the input value exceeds the standard value, the graduation is expressed by changing the output value of each pixel in the range above 195 while printing all the pixels of the screen.

Abstract: When multiple face frames are displayed along with multiple faces, disturbance of stereoscopic effect of an observer having stereoscopic vision is prevented and in addition, visual weariness is suppressed. A stereoscopic photographed image composed of multiple photographed images respectively captured with multiple image pickup devices is input. Positions of faces in each of the photographed images are identified. Focusing states in the positions of faces based on in-focus positions and distance information on the positions of faces. Face frames indicating the positions of faces are blurred according to the focusing states in the positions of faces. A stereoscopic display image is generated from the generated face frames and the stereoscopic photographed image.

Abstract: A tape printing apparatus capable of printing plural paragraphs arrayed in a longitudinal direction of a tape, with each paragraph including one or more lines includes: a paragraph creating unit which creates the paragraphs; a feeding quantity setting unit which set a quantity of feeding between the paragraphs in the longitudinal direction of the tape; an arrangement deciding unit which decides an arrangement of each paragraph on the basis of the setting by the feeding quantity setting unit; and a printing unit which prints each paragraph created by the paragraph creating unit on the tape in a manner that realizes the arrangement decided by the arrangement deciding unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a header acquiring part, a table connection determining part, and a table connecting part. The header acquiring part acquires a header from a table, having rows and columns, included in each of plural pieces of image data arranged in a predetermined order. The table connection determining part determines whether the headers acquired from the tables match one another and determines, as a set of tables to be connected, adjacent tables having the matching headers. The table connecting part deletes the header from each of one or more second tables and connects a first table and the one or more second tables to each other in accordance with the predetermined order. The first table is included in a first piece of pieces of image data of the determined set of tables in the predetermined order.

Abstract: In a digital hearing aid device (1) frequency modification is employed above a lower spectral bound and in accordance with a compression factor. The frequency modification is dynamically adjusted in dependence on a sound environment analysis (10) or an end-user input (30), by modifying the frequency modification parameters such as a lower spectral bound and a compression factor. The adjustment can be based on an interpolation between predefined parameters. In certain sound environments, such as loud noise, own-voice and telephone conversations, frequency modification is reduced or switched off. The proposed solutions have the advantage that the occurrence of disturbing noise and of distortions of harmonic relationships at the end-user's ear is reduced and signal processing resources as well as battery resources are saved.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which configures a printing system in which a server, comprises: a generation unit configured to generate, as plug-in information, information that associates a user interface provided by the image forming apparatus with the application provided by a server; a holding unit configured to hold the generated plug-in information; a sending unit configured to send the plug-in information to the information processing apparatus when the plug-in information has not been registered in an information processing apparatus; and a providing unit configured, when direct printing is designated, to provide, as the user interface to the information processing apparatus based on the plug-in information held by the holding unit, a direct print screen for accepting a print setting corresponding to the application that has generated print data to be printed.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an output unit that outputs a tone-correction-parameter generation sheet and a scanner-profile generation sheet identical in layout of patch columns, each containing patches of different tone values, formed thereon; a scanning unit that scans the patches at scanner positions on a platen; a scanner-profile creating unit that creates, for each of the scanner positions, a scanner profile specifying a relationship between readout values of patches on the scanner-profile generation sheet and color measurement values of the patches measured with a colorimeter; a color-measurement-value deriving unit that determines, from readout values of the patches on the tone-correction-parameter generation sheet and the scanner profiles for the scanner positions, color measurement values of the patches; and a calculating unit that calculates a tone correction parameter for correcting differences between the color measurement values and target color measurement values for the patches on th

Abstract: A method for forming a color transform for a color printing device having a plurality of colorant channels that includes applying a tone scale adjustment function and a total colorant load limit. An optimization process is used to optimize a merit function including a tone scale reproduction accuracy term and a gamut shape term. The method involves determining an initial merit function value responsive to an initial total colorant load limit and an initial set of tone scale adjustment parameters for a tone scale adjustment function. Modified tone scale adjustment parameters and a modified total colorant load limit are determined that provide an improved merit function value subject to a constraint that an average total colorant load is no more than a predefined threshold for a predefined distribution of input colors.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing form data representing a form are disclosed. In one embodiment, an information-providing apparatus has a communication unit configured to communicate with an information-processing apparatus over a network, a storage unit storing a container, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to receive, via the communication unit, a request to access the container from the information-processing apparatus, to retrieve, from the container, form data representing a form, to send, via the communication unit, the form data to the information-processing apparatus, and to receive, via the communication unit, a form execution request from the information-processing apparatus, the form execution request including an identification of the container and user-supplied information added to the form date. The processing unit is further configured to execute the form execution request based on the identification of the container and on the user-supplied information.

Abstract: A print server comprises: a list request receiving unit configured to receive, from a client terminal, a printer list request containing information indicating a printer capable of printing; an acquisition unit configured to send a request to a printer to acquire a status indicating whether the printer can print, thereby acquiring the status; and a sending unit configured to send, to the client terminal that has sent the printer list request, printer list data described in a format for display on a Web browser of the client terminal using the status of the printer that has been acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein when the acquisition unit cannot acquire the status of the printer, the sending unit sends the printer list data containing a command which allows the Web browser of the client terminal to inquire a status of a printer whose status cannot be acquired.

Abstract: A server for managing the operation history of document data is characterized by comprising a first saving processing unit configured to save information included in the first information for identifying the original document and information included in the second information for identifying the duplicated document upon receipt of the first information and the second information, and a second saving processing unit configured to save information for identifying the duplicated document in each predetermined group after the saving is performed in the first saving processing unit, wherein the second saving processing unit, when the number of pieces of information for identifying the original document saved by the first saving processing unit is two or more, integrates each group including the same information as the saved information for identifying the original document into one group.

Abstract: A method for processing a high dynamic range (HDR) image for printing. Tone mapping is first applied to the input image to map the colors, to find an optimized range of brightness values, and to scale the color to place colors inside the optimized range (in-range colors) into a device color space (e.g. sRGB), but without clipping colors outside of the optimized range (out-of-range colors). The scaled colors are then converted to the color space of the output device (e.g. CMYK) using WCS (Windows Color System) color transform, where the in-range colors are processed using a optimized transform and the out-of-range are processed using a sequential transform. A mapping from the original color space to the converted color space for all colors in the image is stored in a lookup table (LUT), and the input image is converted to the output image using the LUT.

Abstract: A communication unit transmits image data of a preceding sheet scanned to a management device communicating with a decoloring device and receives from a management device determination data which is produced by the management device based on the image data and indicates at least whether or not the preceding sheet is reusable and receives ability data of the management device or reception time indication data. A control unit conveys the preceding sheet to a predetermined conveyance destination based on the determination data and feeds sheets at a timing at which the leading end of a following sheet does not run into the tail end of the preceding sheet even if the preceding sheet is held until the determination data is received based on the ability data or the reception time indication data.

Abstract: An image reader includes: a read frame; a read guide; and a seal mechanism. The seal mechanism covers a gap between the read frame and the read guide. The seal mechanism includes a rib standing in parallel with a sliding direction of the read guide and a flexible dustproof sheet having an end that is in contact with the rib.