Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit configured to generate printing data to cause a printing apparatus to apply an ink based on data of an image, the printing apparatus printing the image on a printing medium by using a fluorescent ink including a fluorescent component, a color ink, and a clear ink; and an output unit configured to output the printing data, in which the generation unit generates the printing data to cause the printing apparatus to apply the clear ink so as to reduce a difference between a degree of change in brightness depending on an observation angle in a region to which the fluorescent ink is applied and a degree of change in brightness depending on the observation angle in a region to which the color ink is applied.

Abstract: An information processing device comprising processing circuitry to acquire information on operations each including an operation duration, a number of vehicles necessary for execution of each operation, and train information including a number of vehicles included in each train, mergeable or splittable among two or more trains; and produce an operation plan by allocating one or more trains to each operation, a total number of vehicles included in the allocated trains to each operation matches the number of vehicles necessary for the operation. Merge work of two or more trains is needed to allocate the two or more trains to one of the operations, and split work of the merged two or more trains is needed to allocate the two or more trains to different ones of the operations. The processing circuitry produces the operation plan based on a merge iteration number or a split iteration number.

Abstract: An information processing device comprises processing circuitry to: acquire pieces of train line information and departure and arrival times at each stop position of a train; split the train line information based on replacement stop positions at which a task for working on the train can switch between staffs, to obtain a plurality of pieces of task fragment information each indicating a task of a staff corresponding to each split train line part; and allocate the pieces of task fragment information to target durations to create work schedules indicating a schedule of tasks for each of the target durations, wherein a series of the tasks continuously allocated in each work schedule corresponds to a basic work schedule, each work schedule includes one or more basic work schedule and the processing circuitry performs allocation of the pieces of task fragment information based on a constraint related to the basic work schedule.

Abstract: An information processing comprising a processing circuitry which acquire, with respect to a first route including first stop positions in which one of the first stop positions is a first transfer position, first train line information including a stop time and a departure time at the first stop positions of a first moving vehicle, acquire route information of a second route that includes second stop positions, one of the second stop positions being a second transfer position that allows a transfer to or from the first transfer position, and acquire number-of-passengers information on a number of passengers transferring from the first transfer position to the second transfer position or vice versa; and create second train line information including a stop time and a departure time at the second stop positions of a second moving vehicle, based on the first train line information, the route information and the number-of-passengers information.

Abstract: Depending on a degree of color degeneracy of colors of an input image after absolute colorimetric mapping, an information processing apparatus synthesizes an absolute colorimetric mapping table and a perceptual mapping table. The information processing system can acquire a first color profile for performing colorimetric color conversion, a second color profile for performing perceptual color conversion, and a parameter for increasing a distance between colors mapped through gamut mapping, and generate, based on the first color profile and the second color profile and the parameter, a third color profile.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a target region, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire an output condition when outputting the target region, a selection unit configured to select texture data based on the output condition, and an application unit configured to apply, to the target region, the texture data selected by the selection unit.

Abstract: An image processing method of holding a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image. The method includes acquiring predetermined information concerning at least one of an observation distance as a distance between a print product on which a target region is printed and an observer observing the print product, a sheet on which the target region is printed, or an environment in which the print product is observed, selecting texture data from the plurality of texture data based on the acquired predetermined information, and applying, to the target region, the texture data selected in the selecting.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a platooning operation system organizes a platoon by making a plurality of vehicles cooperate. The platooning operation system includes an application acceptance processor and a platoon organization processor. The application acceptance processor accepts an application of a vehicle for admission to the platoon. The platoon organization processor which selects a platoon to which the vehicle is to be admitted or determines possibility of admission of the vehicle to the platoon, based on at least one of information on a driver driving the vehicle and information on the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to obtaining an object having an anisotropic reflection characteristic without using a lenticular lens. A print product including a print medium on which a repetitive structure of projected portions and recessed portions is formed out of image forming materials including a color material includes a first layer formed on surfaces of the projected portions out of a first color material among the image forming materials, and a second layer formed on the recessed portions out of a second color material different from the first color material, wherein the projected portions have a height to occlude part of the second layer when observed at an angle different from an angle formed by a normal to a surface of the print medium.

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a decision unit configured to decide a ratio of ink application amounts of the fluorescent ink and the other ink respectively in each of the plurality of scans. The decision unit decides the ratio of the ink application amount of the fluorescent ink in each of the plurality of scans so that the amount of the coloring material of the fluorescent ink in a surface of an ink layer of the printing medium is less than the amount of the coloring material of the fluorescent ink in an inside of the ink layer of the printing medium.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating data includes one or more processors and one or more memories, the one or more memories including one or more programs. The one or more programs cause the one or more processors (a) to generate edge data for specifying an area that corresponds to an edge of a convex portion, based on data for specifying a position of the convex portion in unevenness, (b) to determine whether a height of the edge that the edge data represents is equal to or greater than a first threshold, and (c) to reduce a recording amount of a recording material for forming, on the recording medium, an area that corresponds to the edge the height of which is less than the first threshold.

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to, in a case where fluorescent ink is used in printing of an image, determine an order of printing by the fluorescent ink and printing by the light emission suppressing ink that suppresses light emission of the fluorescent ink, in the plurality of scans. The determination unit determines the order of the printing by the fluorescent ink and the printing by the light emission suppressing ink such that the fluorescent ink is printed to be in a layer lower than the light emission suppressing ink in a region of a dark portion of the image.

Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises: a printing unit including a first printing portion configured to print an image by a fluorescent material, and a second printing portion configured to print an image by a second coloring material that is not colored; and a controller configured to control printing of an image onto a print medium performed by the first printing portion, and printing of an image onto the print medium performed by the second printing portion. The controller controls an order of the printing by the first printing portion and the printing by the second printing portion, in accordance with an attribute of a region of an image as a printing target.

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises: a printing unit configured to print an image by applying, onto a printing medium, a first ink containing a fluorescent color material and a second ink containing not fluorescent color material but a resin; a decision unit configured to decide an amount of the second ink applied to a unit area on the printing medium based on an amount of the first ink applied to the unit area and luminescence information representing a luminescence intensity; and a control unit configured to control an application operation of the first ink and the second ink by the printing unit based on the amount of the first ink and the amount of the second ink applied to the unit area.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a diagram processor configured to calculate, based on a first diagram of first to n-th train lines including at least one time of: times of departure of a vehicle from stop positions, times of arrival of the vehicle at the stop positions, and times of pass of the vehicle through the stop positions, an adjustment amount of the time; and an output diagram creator configured to create a second diagram based on the calculated adjustment amount and the first diagram.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a first obtaining unit configured to obtain first image data to be printed, a second obtaining unit configured to obtain second image data indicating a subject identical to that of the first image data and expressed by a geometric condition different from that of the first image data, and a determination unit configured to determine ink amounts of respective inks including a first ink that reflects light in a normal reflection and a second ink that is different from the first ink and has a ratio of an intensity of light reflected in the normal reflection direction to an intensity of light reflected in the diffuse direction smaller than that of the first ink in a case where light based on brightness at each position of the first image data and the second image data.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a consolidated transportation method arranges a plurality of baggage in a same transportation area and performs transportation. A consolidation determination item is defined. A first baggage corresponding to an easily transferred baggage item in the consolidation determination item is arranged in a first transportation area and transported. A second baggage corresponding to a highly sensitive baggage item in the consolidation determination item is arranged in a second transportation area and transported. A first transporter includes the first transportation area. A second transporter includes the second transportation area. The first transportation area and the second transportation area are physically separated.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a transport service method comprises organizing a vehicle group of a plurality of self-driving vehicles in which a parameter value inherent to vehicles falls within a predetermined range, and controlling cooperative travel of the self-driving vehicles in the vehicle group to perform transport service of baggage, persons, animals, and the like.

Abstract: An image processing method of holding a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image, includes acquiring predetermined information concerning at least one of: an observation distance as a distance between a print product on which a target region is printed and an observer observing the print product; a sheet on which the target region is printed; or an environment in which the print product is observed; selecting texture data from the plurality of texture data based on the acquired predetermined information; and applying, to the target region, the texture data selected in the selecting.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a target region, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire an output condition when outputting the target region, a selection unit configured to select texture data based on the output condition, and an application unit configured to apply, to the target region, the texture data selected by the selection unit.