Patents by Inventor Ilia Vladimirovich Safonov

Ilia Vladimirovich Safonov has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of forming characters for microprint and image forming apparatus using the same
    Patent number: 8736853
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming characters for microprint and an image forming apparatus using the same. The method of forming characters for microprint includes determining for every image character a size font taking into account the rules to create small prints, rasterizing a character into a bitmap, skeletonizing the bitmap, reformatting the bitmap maintaining a character legibility, storing the bitmap, and forming halftoning cells from the reformatted bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ilia Vladimirovich Safonov, Sergey Yur'evich Yakovlev
  • METHOD OF FORMING CHARACTERS FOR MICROPRINT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130278971
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming characters for microprint and an image forming apparatus using the same. The method of forming characters for microprint includes determining for every image character a size font taking into account the rules to create small prints, rasterizing a character into a bitmap, skeletonizing the bitmap, reformatting the bitmap maintaining a character legibility, storing the bitmap, and forming halftoning cells from the reformatted bitmap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Ilia Vladimirovich SAFONOV, Sergey Yur'evich YAKOVLEV
  • Method of forming characters for microprint and image forming apparatus using the same
    Patent number: 8493575
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming characters for microprint and an image forming apparatus using the same. The method of forming characters for microprint includes determining for every image character a size font taking into account the rules to create small prints, rasterizing a character into a bitmap, skeletonizing the bitmap, reformatting the bitmap maintaining a character legibility, storing the bitmap, and forming halftoning cells from the reformatted bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ilia Vladimirovich Safonov, Sergey Yur'evich Yakovlev
  • METHOD OF FORMING CHARACTERS FOR MICROPRINT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20120268754
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming characters for microprint and an image forming apparatus using the same. The method of forming characters for microprint includes determining for every image character a size font taking into account the rules to create small prints, rasterizing a character into a bitmap, skeletonizing the bitmap, reformatting the bitmap maintaining a character legibility, storing the bitmap, and forming halftoning cells from the reformatted bitmap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ilia Vladimirovich SAFONOV, Sergey Yur'evich Yakovlev
  • Method of forming characters for microprint and image forming apparatus using the same
    Patent number: 8248622
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming characters for microprint and an image forming apparatus using the same. The method of forming characters for microprint includes determining for every image character a size font taking into account the rules to create small prints, rasterizing a character into a bitmap, skeletonizing the bitmap, reformatting the bitmap maintaining a character legibility, storing the bitmap, and forming halftoning cells from the reformatted bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ilia Vladimirovich Safonov, Sergey Yur'evich Yakovlev
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRINTING MICRO-PICTURES FOR ANTI-COUNTERFEITING AND COPY PROTECTION
    Publication number: 20120140291
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image reader unit to scan a page to be printed, a security mark acquisition unit at least one security mark, an image process unit to perform image blending by applying parameters preset in the scanned page to be printed and the security mark, a control unit to provide the image process unit with the preset parameters, and an output unit to output an image blended of the image process unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ilia Vladimirovich SAFONOV, Michael Nikolaevich Rychagov, Ho-Keun Lee
  • Method and apparatus for adjusting brightness of image
    Patent number: 7702177
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for adjusting brightness of an image are provided, in which number distribution information of pixel brightness is detected, and the brightness of a specific area of the image is adjusted using characteristic values according to a distribution characteristic of the detected number distribution information. Accordingly, a decrease in an image recognition characteristic of a human being is compensated for in a specific area, such as, low-brightness area, of an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ilia Vladimirovich Safonov
  • METHOD OF FORMING CHARACTERS FOR MICROPRINT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20090185210
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming characters for microprint and an image forming apparatus using the same. The method of forming characters for microprint includes determining for every image character a size font taking into account the rules to create small prints, rasterizing a character into a bitmap, skeletonizing the bitmap, reformatting the bitmap maintaining a character legibility, storing the bitmap, and forming halftoning cells from the reformatted bitmap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ilia Vladimirovich SAFONOV, Sergey Yur'evich YAKOVLEV