Abstract: [OBJECT] To create a document including an object (or objects) having a beautiful well-balanced layout even if a volume of the object (objects) changes [MEANS FOR ACHIEVING THE OBJECT] The present invention provides a document edit device including: object obtaining means that obtains an object as data expressing at least one of a text and an image; and object edit means that edits the object so that, based on a volume of the object obtained by the object obtaining means, the object is located within an area of a golden rectangle having two adjacent edges whose lengths form a golden ratio.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention can relate to an image layout device and an image layout method. The image layout device of the invention can be a device that automatically arranges a plurality of images within a particular area, and can include a layout angle determining device that determines the layout angle for each of the images based on an angle that is an integer multiple of a golden angle, and a layout position determining device that determines the layout position for each of the images depending on the overlap between each of the images due to the angle determined by the layout angle determining device.

Abstract: A document editing device includes: a data set storage unit that stores a plurality of data sets, each including a character string, an attribute of the character string, and a font size for the attribute; a threshold value storage unit that stores a threshold value indicating an acceptable range for a ratio between font sizes for at least two of a plurality of attributes stored in the data set storage unit; a ratio calculation unit that calculates the ratio between the font sizes for at least two of the plurality of attributes stored in the data set storage unit; and a resize unit that changes the font sizes for at least two of the plurality of attributes so as to cause the ratio between the font sizes for at least two of the plurality of attributes to fall within an acceptable range if the ratio calculated by the ratio calculation unit is outside [SN1] the acceptable range indicated by the threshold value stored in the threshold value storage unit.

Abstract: An image display system includes: a storage section that stores plural image data sets and layout information indicating layout of one or plural sub images forming, as a whole, a background image behind a main image; a main image select section that selects one image data as a main image data set expressing a main image, from the plural image data sets; a characteristic specify section that specifies a characteristic of the main image data set selected by the main image select section; a sub image extract section that extracts, as one or plural image data sets each expressing a sub image, one or plural image data sets each having a characteristic making a relationship with the characteristic specified by the characteristic specify section, among the plural image data sets stored in the storage section except the main image data set, whereby the relationship satisfies a predetermined condition; and an image display section that displays the main image selected by the main image select section and the one or pl

Abstract: There is disclosed a grid system selection supporting device comprising: a storage unit that stores use histories for a plurality of grid systems; and an extraction unit that extracts at least one of the plurality of grid systems, based on the use histories.

Abstract: There is disclosed a digital content creation system including: a representative color obtaining section that obtains, from a digital content input, a characteristic amount of at least one representative color for the digital content input, the digital content input including a plurality of digital content sets and coloration information indicative of coloration for the plurality of digital content sets included in the digital content input; a coloration process determination section that determines coloration processing in accordance with the characteristic amount obtained by the representative color obtaining section; and a coloration processing section that changes the coloration information for the digital content sets included in the digital content input, in accordance with the coloration processing determined by the coloration process determination section.

Abstract: A digital content creation system includes: a content database that stores a plurality of digital content sets; a select section that selects from among the stored plural digital content sets at least one target digital content sets for processing; a layout determination section that determines a layout for the more than one target selected digital content sets; a property information generation section that generates property information for the more than one target selected digital content sets, based on the layout determined by the layout determination section, the property information including overlap information indicative of an overlap state of the more than one target selected digital content sets, and including importance information indicative of a relative importance of each of the more than one target selected digital content sets; an overlap detect section that detects, based on the overlap information included in the property information generated by the property information generation section,

Abstract: A document production system includes: a document acquisition unit that acquires a document including data including at least one object placed in a layout area and layout information identifying the placement of the at least one object in the layout area; an attribute information generation unit that generates attribute information describing the attributes of the document based on at least either one of the object(s) and layout information included in the document acquired by the document acquisition unit; and a layout processing unit that processes at least either one of the layout information or an object among the at least one object based on the attribute information generated by the attribute information generation unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a memory that stores a background image and a character image that is separate from the background image and overlaps the background image; a processing target area determining unit that determines a processing target area in the background image, the processing target area being in a prescribed positional relation with the character image; a background feature parameter extracting unit that extracts from the processing target area a background feature parameter that includes a feature frequency showing a frequency characteristics of the processing target area; a character feature parameter extracting unit that extracts from the character image a character feature parameter that includes a feature frequency showing a frequency characteristics of the character image; a parameter determining unit that determines a parameter for use in image processing performed on the processing target area, according to a combination of the background feature parameter and the character

Abstract: A dither matrix generator includes: a main-cluster generator that generates at least one main-cluster in a matrix, the matrix including a plurality of cells, the main cluster area including a predetermined number of cells; a sparest searcher that searches a sparest area in the matrix, the sparest area being the area other than the area of main-cluster; a sub-cluster generator that generates at least one sub-cluster area, the sub-cluster area including a smaller number of cells than that of the main-cluster; a dither value allocator that allocates dither values to the plurality of cells of the matrix, the cells in the main-clusters having smaller dither values than those in the sub-cluster areas, the cells in the sub-cluster areas having smaller dither values than those in the areas other than the main-cluster and the sub-cluster areas.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: an acquirer acquiring M-ary (M?3) image data; a divider dividing the acquired image data into pixel areas; a calculator calculating total concentration values of pixels in the divided pixel areas; a storage unit storing a pixel area dot constitution table designating the total concentration value of each calculated pixel area and a dot constitution corresponding to the total concentration value; a calculator calculating a constitution of dots arranged in the pixel area based on the pixel area dot constitution table; a storage unit storing a dot arrangement order table designating an arrangement order of the dots in the pixel area; an arranger arranging the dots having the calculated dot constitution corresponding to the designated dot arrangement order; a generator generating print data by combining the respective pixel areas in which the dots are arranged; and a printer printing based on the print data.

Abstract: A printing device includes a printing head having arranged printing elements capable of forming dots on a medium used for printing. The printing device prints an image by forming dots on the medium by the printing head. The printing device includes a printing control unit that controls the printing processing so that a line graph representing the density change characteristic of a printing result by the printing head draws a line with a gradient.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image memory that is adapted to store image data, the image data including a plurality of pixels, the image data including a pixel value of each pixel; a threshold memory that is adapted to store a plurality of dither matrixes, each of the plurality of dither matrix having a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells having a threshold value, each of the dither matrix corresponding to a dot size; a first generator that is adapted to generate quantized data by comparing the image data with one of a plurality of dither matrixes, the quantized data including a plurality of dots, each of the plurality of dots corresponding to one of a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of dots showing a dot having one of a plurality of dot sizes is formed; a calculator that is adapted to calculate a duty ratio on the basis of the quantized data, the duty ratio showing a ratio of a number of formed dots having a dot size to formed dots having another dot size; a determining un

Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory that is adapted to store an input image; an inverted image generator that is adapted to generate an inverted image, the inverted image corresponding to a predetermined part of the input image; a target image generator that is adapted to generate a target image, the target image including the inverted image and the input image; a quantization unit that is adapted to quantize the target image, in accordance with the error diffusion method; an image extractor that is adapted to extract an output image from the quantized target image, the output image corresponding to the input image; an output unit that is adapted to output the output image extracted by the image extractor.

Abstract: A recycling facilitating system including an item identification data input unit for inputting item identification data, an item disassembly data memory for storing item disassembly data in correspondence with the item identification data, an item disassembly data retrieval unit for retrieving the item disassembly data, a disassembly diagram constructing unit for constructing the disassembly diagram based on the item disassembly data, and a disassembly diagram output unit for outputting the disassembly diagram; the disassembly diagram constructing unit determines the progress status of an operation step of disassembling the item to be recycled by identifying a component that was removed during the operation step, and, in accordance with the progress status, constructs one of a plurality of disassembly diagrams, which can be constructed from the item disassembly data that was retrieved by the item disassembly data retrieval unit.

Abstract: A recycling facilitating system including an item identification data input unit for inputting item identification data, an item disassembly data memory for storing item disassembly data in correspondence with the item identification data, an item disassembly data retrieval unit for retrieving the item disassembly data, a disassembly diagram constructing unit for constructing the disassembly diagram based on the item disassembly data, and a disassembly diagram output unit for outputting the disassembly diagram; the disassembly diagram constructing unit determines the progress status of an operation step of disassembling the item to be recycled by identifying a component that was removed during the operation step, and, in accordance with the progress status, constructs one of a plurality of disassembly diagrams, which can be constructed from the item disassembly data that was retrieved by the item disassembly data retrieval unit.

Abstract: The invention provides an image processing device, comprising: an N-level quantization unit, where N is a natural number equal to or greater than 2, the unit converting multi-level image data into N-level image data, the multi-level image data including a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a value corresponding to one of a multi-level gradation, and the N-level image data including a size of an ideal ink dot to be formed; a memory that stores error information, the error information corresponding to a difference between an ideal ink dot and an actual ink dot, the actual ink dot being formed by an image forming device, the image forming device having a plurality of nozzles, and each of the plurality of nozzles being associated with an ideal ink dot and an actual ink dot, and being capable of ejecting M-number of ink dot sizes, where M is a natural number equal to or greater than 2 and satisfies M?N); an error information obtaining unit that obtains from the memory error information corresponding to an iden

Abstract: A printing device includes a print head having a plurality of nozzles capable of ejecting ink on a print medium and of forming one or more types of ink dots on the print medium; an ink dot setting unit that determines an ink dot setting for each pixel of image data by comparing a gradient of the each pixel with, from among thresholds in a matrix for each of respective pixels, a threshold corresponding to the each pixel of image data; a print head controller that controls ejection of ink from each nozzle of the print head on the basis of an ink dot setting determined by the ink dot setting controller; and a threshold matrix correction unit that corrects a predetermined threshold of the matrix depending on ink output characteristics of each nozzle of the print head.

Abstract: A recycling analyzing system comprising: a standard operation time memory which stores standard time for disassembling operation of each component beforehand; an operation time memory which stores time for disassembling operation of each component to be disassembled; an operation time counting unit which counts the time for disassembling operation time of each component constituting the item to be recycled, and stores them in the operation time memory; and a difficult operation extracting unit which refers to the standard time stored in the standard operation time memory, and the time for disassembling operation of each component stored in the operation time memory, and extracts disassembling operations which is difficult.

Abstract: An image processing device that arranges a plurality of images in a specified area, including an image layout portion that arranges a plurality of input images in a specified a an inclusion area calculation portion that calculates an inclusion are that includes all of the input images based on an image positions determined by the image layout portion, and an image layout adjustment portion that adjusts a layout of input images based on the inclusion areas