Abstract: A three-dimensional object fabrication method of the present disclosure includes forming a fabrication layer including a fabrication material, applying a fabrication liquid to the fabrication layer, flattening the fabrication layer, monitoring a scattering condition of the fabrication material in the forming and the flattening, and adjusting at least one of the forming and the flattening, based on a monitoring result of the scattering condition in the monitoring.

Abstract: A management system is configured to manage an apparatus configured to perform a modeling process for generating three-dimensional modeled object. The management system includes an apparatus data acquiring unit, and a state determining unit. The apparatus data acquiring unit is configured to acquire apparatus data on an operation of the apparatus. The state determining unit is configured to determine a state of the apparatus, using the acquired apparatus data and reference data corresponding to a reference state of the apparatus to be managed.

Abstract: A management apparatus includes circuitry to manage multiple structures including a fabrication object fabricated by a fabrication apparatus in a fabrication area of the fabrication apparatus and extract a combination of two or more structures from the multiple structures based on shape information of the multiple structures.

Abstract: At least a three-dimensional printer configured to model a modeled object and a terminal configured to issue a request for modeling of a modeled object are connected in a management system. The management system includes a free space detection unit and a transmission unit. The free space detection unit is configured to detect a free space in a three-dimensional printer chamber, based on a reservation for modeling of a modeled object. The transmission unit is configured to transmit, to the terminal, an offer for modeling of a modeled object capable of being modeled in the free space in the three-dimensional printer chamber.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to store, in a memory, a primary image to be processed; accept an input of a selected area of the primary image stored in the memory and an input of a designated color for the selected area; and perform image processing to change a color of the selected area of the primary image to the designated color, to generate a secondary image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that determines whether or not an image described based on image data is continuous with an area where watermark information is to be embedded to generate a determination result and changes, in accordance with the determination result, the area where the watermark information is to be embedded.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a manuscript reader configured to read a manuscript, an embedment processing unit configured to perform a process of embedding additional information into data of the manuscript that has been read by the manuscript reader. The embedment processing unit embeds, as the additional information, a pattern including a plurality of dots arranged in such a shape that an inclination of the manuscript is detectable.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an embed-data generating unit configured to generate embed-data, which is to be embedded in input-image-data, the input-image-data representing an image including a first color, the embed-data representing an image including a second color; an inverting unit configured to invert the image represented by the embed-data, in response to meeting a predetermined condition relating to the first color and the second color; and an output-image-data generating unit configured to embed, in the input-image-data, embed-data representing the image that is inverted by the inverting unit, in order to generate output-image-data in a case where the predetermined condition is met, and configured to embed, in the input-image-data, embed-data representing the image that is not inverted by the inverting unit, in order to generate output-image-data in a case where the predetermined condition is not met.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an operation receiver, an image processor configured to perform image processing to add a digital watermark containing address information of the image processing apparatus to a first image to thereby generate a second image; a communication controller configured to receive a taking-out request to take out the digital watermark contained in the second image from an information processing device; and a storage controller configured to store a log in a storage unit. When receiving the taking-out request, the image processor performs image processing to take out the digital watermark contained in the second image to thereby generate the first image. The communication controller transmits the first image generated by the image processor to the information processing device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that determines whether or not an image described based on image data is continuous with an area where watermark information is to be embedded to generate a determination result and changes, in accordance with the determination result, the area where the watermark information is to be embedded.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a manuscript reader configured to read a manuscript, an embedment processing unit configured to perform a process of embedding additional information into data of the manuscript that has been read by the manuscript reader. The embedment processing unit embeds, as the additional information, a pattern including a plurality of dots arranged in such a shape that an inclination of the manuscript is detectable.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an embed-data generating unit configured to generate embed-data, which is to be embedded in input-image-data, the input-image-data representing an image including a first color, the embed-data representing an image including a second color; an inverting unit configured to invert the image represented by the embed-data, in response to meeting a predetermined condition relating to the first color and the second color; and an output-image-data generating unit configured to embed, in the input-image-data, embed-data representing the image that is inverted by the inverting unit, in order to generate output-image-data in a case where the predetermined condition is met, and configured to embed, in the input-image-data, embed-data representing the image that is not inverted by the inverting unit, in order to generate output-image-data in a case where the predetermined condition is not met.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an operation receiver, an image processor configured to perform image processing to add a digital watermark containing address information of the image processing apparatus to a first image to thereby generate a second image; a communication controller configured to receive a taking-out request to take out the digital watermark contained in the second image from an information processing device; and a storage controller configured to store a log in a storage unit. When receiving the taking-out request, the image processor performs image processing to take out the digital watermark contained in the second image to thereby generate the first image. The communication controller transmits the first image generated by the image processor to the information processing device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a reading device configured to read a document; a primary storage device configured to temporarily store therein image data of the read document; a printing device configured to print the temporarily-stored image data; and a control device configured to set a printing speed and to synchronize a reading speed of the reading device with the printing speed of the printing device so that a waiting time is minimized.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for converting image data created from an optically read manuscript to character data is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a data converting unit configured to convert the image data of a printed character printed beforehand on the manuscript and an added character added after the printed character has been printed to the character data; a character data distinguishing unit configured to distinguish, of the converted character data, between printed character data converted from the image data corresponding to the printed character and added character data converted from the image data corresponding to the added character; an edit information accepting unit configured to accept added character data edit information; and a character data edit unit configured to edit, according to the accepted added character data edit information, the distinguished added character data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for converting image data created from an optically read manuscript to character data is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a data converting unit configured to convert the image data of a printed character printed beforehand on the manuscript and an added character added after the printed character has been printed to the character data; a character data distinguishing unit configured to distinguish, of the converted character data, between printed character data converted from the image data corresponding to the printed character and added character data converted from the image data corresponding to the added character; an edit information accepting unit configured to accept added character data edit information; and a character data edit unit configured to edit, according to the accepted added character data edit information, the distinguished added character data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a read unit to read a document image and generate image data of the document image, a memory management unit to manage a storage unit which is segmented into storage regions, and an engine to write the image data generated by the read unit to the storage unit. The engine acquires setting information related to writing of the image data from the memory management unit, and writes the image data to the storage unit based on the setting information that is acquired.

Abstract: A method of transforming an image format of image data stored in an apparatus connected via a network is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing the apparatus with format information containing image formats of image data that can be transformed, receiving a request for transforming the image format of the image data from the apparatus, acquiring the image data from the apparatus, transforming the image format of the image data acquired from the apparatus thereby to form format-transformed image data, and providing the format-transformed image data to the apparatus. According to the above arrangements, an image transforming apparatus using the method can transform the image format of the image data on behalf of the apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage section to store compressed data obtained by compressing image data, an output image memory having a deployment area in which the compressed data transferred from the storage section are deployed, a transferring control section to control transferring of the compressed data from the storage section to the output image memory, an expansion section to obtain the compressed data deployed in the deployment area of the output image memory to expand the obtained compressed data, and a print engine to which the expanded data are supplied. In the mage forming apparatus, the transferring control section controls the transferring of the compressed data to be transferred from the storage section to the output image memory based on capacity of the deployment area of the output image memory and a size of the compressed data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a read unit to read a document image and generate image data of the document image, a memory management unit to manage a storage unit which is segmented into storage regions, and an engine to write the image data generated by the read unit to the storage unit. The engine acquires setting information related to writing of the image data from the memory management unit to the storage unit, and writes the image data to the storage unit based on the setting information that is acquired.