Patents by Inventor Kazuhide Sawada
Kazuhide Sawada 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).
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Publication number: 20220171587Abstract: A printing device includes a print engine, and a controller. The print engine performs an index print to print a plurality of images on one or more sheets, the plurality of images corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of files stored in an external memory. The controller controls the print engine. The controller performs determining a type of each of the plurality of files stored in the external device. The controller converts each file, which is determined as a non-image file and includes a page description language, to an image file representing contents of the each file by interpreting the page description language included in the each file. The controller generates a print command for the index print by referring to each image file which is stored in the external memory and each image file generated in the converting.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventor: Kazuhide SAWADA
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Patent number: 10592766Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to execute: acquiring objective image data representing an objective image which includes a first character and a second character; analyzing first partial image data and specifying the first character in an image represented by the first partial image data; and generating processed image data representing a processed image which includes the first character and the second character by using the objective image data. The objective image data includes the first partial image data in a bitmap format which represents the image including the first character and second partial image data in a vector format which represents an image including the second character. The processed image data includes: first processed data representing an image including the first character; and second processed data representing an image including the second character.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhide Sawada
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Patent number: 10552704Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to execute: acquiring objective image data representing an objective image which includes a first character and a second character; analyzing first partial image data and specifying the first character in an image represented by the first partial image data; and generating processed image data representing a processed image which includes the first character and the second character by using the objective image data. The objective image data includes the first partial image data in a bitmap format which represents the image including the first character and second partial image data in a vector format which represents an image including the second character. The processed image data includes: first processed data representing an image including the first character; and second processed data representing an image including the second character.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhide Sawada
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Patent number: 10313561Abstract: A target file includes: object data including pixels indicative of coordinate values in a first color space; and an input-side profile including data for converting coordinate values from the first color space into a specific color space. A color conversion is executed onto object data to generate post-conversion data including pixels indicative of coordinate values in a second color space. The executing color conversion includes executing judgment to judge, based on the input-side profile, which of first type post-conversion data generated through first type conversion using the input-side profile and an output-side profile, and second type post-conversion data generated through second-type conversion using prescribed data, should be used to output an image of the target file. The prescribed data is for conversion from the first color space into the second color space. The output-side profile contains data for conversion from the specific color space into the second color space.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhide Sawada
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Patent number: 10044909Abstract: An image processing apparatus specifies j number of input-side profiles from among J number of input-side profiles in a target file which has K number of sets of object data defining color in a specific color space. The J number of input-side profiles are for converting a value in the specific color space to a value in a first color space. A conversion table is generated using one of the j number of input-side profiles and an output-side profile, and for converting a value in the specific color space to a value in the second color space without generating a value in the first color space. The output-side profile is for converting a value in the first color space to a value in the second color space. The apparatus converts k number of sets of object data correlated to one of the j number of input-side profiles using the table.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuhide Sawada
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Patent number: 10038825Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a controller performs: acquiring first original image data generated by optically reading a first document; acquiring first corrected image data generated by executing first correction processing; calculating a feature amount indicative of a difference between the first original image data and the first corrected image data; determining a correction parameter indicative of the specific color by using the calculated feature amount; acquiring second original image data generated by optically reading a second document different from the first document, and generating second corrected image data by executing second correction processing for the second original image data, wherein the second correction processing is processing of changing the pixel value indicative of the specific color specified by using the determined correction parameter into the pixel value indicative of the color different from the specific color.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhide Sawada
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Patent number: 9781308Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by a processor of an image processing apparatus, perform processes. The processes include registering, in a storage, a candidate color for each of a plurality of divided areas included in image data indicating an image on a sheet. The processes further include identifying, from among a plurality of pixels included in the image data, a target pixel based on a color value of the target pixel. The processes further include replacing the color value of the identified target pixel with a target color when a condition based on the color value of the identified target pixel and a color value of the target color is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhide Sawada, Hiroko Mori
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Publication number: 20170249527Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to execute: acquiring objective image data representing an objective image which includes a first character and a second character; analyzing first partial image data and specifying the first character in an image represented by the first partial image data; and generating processed image data representing a processed image which includes the first character and the second character by using the objective image data. The objective image data includes the first partial image data in a bitmap format which represents the image including the first character and second partial image data in a vector format which represents an image including the second character. The processed image data includes: first processed data representing an image including the first character; and second processed data representing an image including the second character.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Inventor: Kazuhide SAWADA
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Publication number: 20170208216Abstract: A target file includes: object data including pixels indicative of coordinate values in a first color space; and an input-side profile including data for converting coordinate values from the first color space into a specific color space. A color conversion is executed onto object data to generate post-conversion data including pixels indicative of coordinate values in a second color space. The executing color conversion includes executing judgment to judge, based on the input-side profile, which of first type post-conversion data generated through first type conversion using the input-side profile and an output-side profile, and second type post-conversion data generated through second-type conversion using prescribed data, should be used to output an image of the target file. The prescribed data is for conversion from the first color space into the second color space. The output-side profile contains data for conversion from the specific color space into the second color space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventor: Kazuhide SAWADA
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Patent number: 9712721Abstract: A first correction is executed on target image data representative of a target image when a ratio of a number of first type pixels relative to a number of a plurality of pixels in the target image data is determined to be greater than or equal to a prescribed value. A second correction is executed on the target image data when the ratio is determined to be smaller than the prescribed value. Pixel values of the first type pixels are within a first range that is defined based on a color value indicative of a background color of the target image. The first correction corrects both of internal pixel values and external pixel values which are within and out of a second range that contains the color value of the background color. The second correction corrects the internal pixel values and does not correct the external pixel values.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuhide Sawada
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Publication number: 20170187925Abstract: An image processing apparatus specifies j number of input-side profiles from among J number of input-side profiles in a target file which has K number of sets of object data defining color in a specific color space. The J number of input-side profiles are for converting a value in the specific color space to a value in a first color space. A conversion table is generated using one of the j number of input-side profiles and an output-side profile, and for converting a value in the specific color space to a value in the second color space without generating a value in the first color space. The output-side profile is for converting a value in the first color space to a value in the second color space. The apparatus converts k number of sets of object data correlated to one of the j number of input-side profiles using the table.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventor: Kazuhide SAWADA
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Patent number: 9594535Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor; memory storing instructions causing the apparatus to perform: acquiring original image data including an object; specifying margin area, which is located at a periphery of the original image and in which the object is not located; specifying a non-printable area, which is located at a periphery of a print medium and to which the printing apparatus is not capable of printing; determining, on the basis of information representing the non-printable area and information representing the margin area, whether the printing apparatus is capable of printing the whole of the object of the original image within a printable area on the print medium, to which the printing apparatus is capable of printing, without performing a reducing process on the object; and generating print data, from the original image data, according to a result of the determining.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhide Sawada
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Patent number: 9557950Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor; memory storing instructions causing the apparatus to perform: acquiring original image data including an object; specifying margin area, which is located at a periphery of the original image and in which the object is not located; specifying a non-printable area, which is located at a periphery of a print medium and to which the printing apparatus is not capable of printing; determining, on the basis of information representing the non-printable area and information representing the margin area, whether the printing apparatus is capable of printing the whole of the object of the original image within a printable area on the print medium, to which the printing apparatus is capable of printing, without performing a reducing process on the object; and generating print data, from the original image data, according to a result of the determining.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhide Sawada
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Patent number: 9491317Abstract: A printer that performs: supplying first capability information which includes information indicating that the printer has a specific processing capability to a first external apparatus, acquiring first print data from the first external apparatus in response to the supplying of the first capability information, executing first printing processing including specific processing corresponding to the specific processing capability in response to the acquiring of the first print data, supplying, in a case where the first print data satisfies a first predetermined condition, second capability information, which does not include the information indicating that the printer has the specific processing capability, to a second external apparatus, acquiring second print data from the second external apparatus in response to the supplying of the second capability information, and executing second printing processing not including the specific processing in response to the acquiring of the second print data.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhide Sawada
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Publication number: 20160295076Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by a processor of an image processing apparatus, perform processes. The processes include registering, in a storage, a candidate color for each of a plurality of divided areas included in image data indicating an image on a sheet. The processes further include identifying, from among a plurality of pixels included in the image data, a target pixel based on a color value of the target pixel. The processes further include replacing the color value of the identified target pixel with a target color when a condition based on the color value of the identified target pixel and a color value of the target color is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Kazuhide Sawada, Hiroko Mori
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Publication number: 20160286094Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a controller performs: acquiring first original image data generated by optically reading a first document; acquiring first corrected image data generated by executing first correction processing; calculating a feature amount indicative of a difference between the first original image data and the first corrected image data; determining a correction parameter indicative of the specific color by using the calculated feature amount; acquiring second original image data generated by optically reading a second document different from the first document, and generating second corrected image data by executing second correction processing for the second original image data, wherein the second correction processing is processing of changing the pixel value indicative of the specific color specified by using the determined correction parameter into the pixel value indicative of the color different from the specific color.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventor: Kazuhide SAWADA
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Patent number: 9432551Abstract: An image processing apparatus acquires scan data and information about a color specified by a user; executes first correction on the scan data such that brightness of a pixel subject to the first correction increases, the pixel subject to the first correction having a color that falls within a specified range of color, an achromatic color brighter than the specified color falling within the specified range of color, first corrected scan data being generated resulting from execution of the first correction; executes second correction on at least a part of the first-corrected scan data such that a color of a pixel subject to the second correction is changed to a predetermined color if the pixel subject to the second correction is a specified color pixel specified based on the information, second corrected scan data being generated resulting from execution of the second correction; and outputs the second corrected scan data.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuhide Sawada
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Publication number: 20160189389Abstract: A first correction is executed on target image data representative of a target image when a ratio of a number of first type pixels relative to a number of a plurality of pixels in the target image data is determined to be greater than or equal to a prescribed value. A second correction is executed on the target image data when the ratio is determined to be smaller than the prescribed value. Pixel values of the first type pixels are within a first range that is defined based on a color value indicative of a background color of the target image. The first correction corrects both of internal pixel values and external pixel values which are within and out of a second range that contains the color value of the background color. The second correction corrects the internal pixel values and does not correct the external pixel values.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventor: Kazuhide SAWADA
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Publication number: 20160094727Abstract: A printer that performs: supplying first capability information which includes information indicating that the printer has a specific processing capability to a first external apparatus, acquiring first print data from the first external apparatus in response to the supplying of the first capability information, executing first printing processing including specific processing corresponding to the specific processing capability in response to the acquiring of the first print data, supplying, in a case where the first print data satisfies a first predetermined condition, second capability information, which does not include the information indicating that the printer has the specific processing capability, to a second external apparatus, acquiring second print data from the second external apparatus in response to the supplying of the second capability information, and executing second printing processing not including the specific processing in response to the acquiring of the second print data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhide SAWADA
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Patent number: 9191548Abstract: In an image processing device having an image processing unit, a first determination process determines whether each of the plurality of blocks is a single-color block, a non-single-color block, or a non-determinative block. Determination of the non-determinative block is made when neither a single block condition nor a non-single-block condition is met. A second determination process determines whether the non-determinative block is the single block or the non-single block based on a result of the first determination process with respect to a neighboring block neighboring the non-determinative block. The blank determination process determines whether the image is a blank image based on at least one of number of single color blocks determined in the first determination process or the second determination process and number of non-single-color blocks determined in the first determination process or the second determination process.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuhide Sawada