Abstract: An image processing apparatus synthesizing a plurality of sub-images in a panoramic way to create a panoramic image includes a face recognizing unit recognizing a person's face from a plurality of the sub-images, a sampling image selecting unit selecting a sub-image which has a face recognized by the face recognizing unit, out of a plurality of the sub-images as a sampling image, a sampling unit sampling a plurality of pixels from the selected sampling image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a pre-rotation encoded data pair storing unit, a positional relationship storing unit, a post-rotation data pair creating unit, and an image creating unit. The pre-rotation encoded data pair storing unit stores a set of pre-rotation encoded data pairs. The set of pre-rotation encoded data pairs includes a plurality of pieces of pre-rotation encoded data that are data obtained by dividing object image data into a plurality of pieces of divided image data and individually encoding each of the plurality of pieces of divided image data, and pre-rotation position information that represents a position of the pre-rotation encoded data in the object image data, wherein the plurality of pieces of pre-rotation encoded data and the pre-rotation position information correspond to each other.

Abstract: In response to a print instruction of a specified print object image, the print control apparatus of the invention corrects print object image data representing the specified print object image with a preset correction parameter set for improving picture quality of the specified print object image and prints the specified print object image according to corrected print object image data. A print object image specification module of the print control apparatus specifies the print object image as a printing object. A preprocessing execution module of the print control apparatus performs predetermined preprocessing of the print object image data representing the specified print object image to set the correction parameter used for correcting the specified print object image.

Abstract: An image processing system is provided and includes a first receiving unit, a print control unit, a second receiving unit, a read control unit, and a composition unit. The first receiving unit receives an order-sheet request, and the print control unit causes a printer unit to print an area notation indicating a free rendering area on paper in accordance with the order-sheet request. The second receiving unit receives a scan request, and the read control unit causes an scan unit to read the paper on which a subject is recorded in the free rendering area in accordance with the scan request. Also, the composition unit composites an image of the free rendering area read by the scan unit in accordance with the scan request and the other image or images. A method that the system performs is also provided.

Abstract: In a print control apparatus of the invention, it is assumed that preprocessing with regard to a print object image specified as an object of image processing is currently being performed by an advanced processing execution module, at an input timing of an image processing instruction in response to a print instruction. On condition that a processing amount of the preprocessing currently performed by the advanced processing execution module has reached a predetermined level, an image processor waits for completion of the preprocessing performed by the advanced processing execution module and implements a correction process by utilizing a result of the preprocessing performed by the advanced processing execution module.

Abstract: An image processing method is performed by an image supply device storing image data and an image output device performing image processing with respect to the image data, which are connected via a communication path through which the image data is communicated. A control information item including a script for image processing, which is described by a markup language, is communicated between the image supply device and the image output device. The image data is transmitted to the image output device, based on the script.

Abstract: A multi processor system having a first processor; and one or more second processors is provided. Each of the one or more second processors is connected to the first processor by a dedicated interrupt signal line. Upon receiving a first interrupt signal indicating a power cutoff event, the first processor sends via the dedicated interrupt signal line a second interrupt signal to at least one second processor among the one or more second processors.

Abstract: A print instruction apparatus is connected to a storage medium where an image file having image data contained therein is stored, and instructs a printing device to print an image selected by a user using a given communication standard.

Abstract: A file management apparatus includes the following elements: a first non-volatile storage medium that holds a metadata group including a plurality of pieces of metadata corresponding to a predetermined file type; a detector that detects a file of the predetermined file type; a metadata guide unit that introduces, as selection options, the plurality of pieces of metadata included in the metadata group corresponding to the predetermined file type of the detected file; a metadata selection unit that accepts selection of at least one piece of the introduced metadata; and a management data storage unit that stores the selected metadata in association with the detected file in a second non-volatile storage medium in which the detected file is stored.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a generating section, operable to analyze compressed image data stored in an external memory and generate an analytic table indicative of a storage manner of the compressed image data; an internal memory, adapted to store the compressed image data therein; a storage section, operable to acquire at least a part of the compressed image data from the external memory and store the compressed image data in the internal memory with reference to the analytic table; a decoding section, operable to read and decode the compressed image data stored in the storage section, and rotate and then output the compressed image data as a rotated image data; and an updater, operable to update the analytic table in accordance with a decoding situation of the decoding section.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a pre-rotation encoded data pair storing unit, a positional relationship storing unit, a post-rotation data pair creating unit, and an image creating unit. The pre-rotation encoded data pair storing unit stores a set of pre-rotation encoded data pairs. The set of pre-rotation encoded data pairs includes a plurality of pieces of pre-rotation encoded data that are data obtained by dividing object image data into a plurality of pieces of divided image data and individually encoding each of the plurality of pieces of divided image data, and pre-rotation position information that represents a position of the pre-rotation encoded data in the object image data, wherein the plurality of pieces of pre-rotation encoded data and the pre-rotation position information correspond to each other.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus synthesizing a plurality of sub-images in a panoramic way to create a panoramic image includes a face recognizing unit recognizing a person's face from a plurality of the sub-images, a sampling image selecting unit selecting a sub-image which has a face recognized by the face recognizing unit, out of a plurality of the sub-images as a sampling image, a sampling unit sampling a plurality of pixels from the selected sampling image.

Abstract: An image forming system is provided and includes an access unit, a reductive color processing unit, an order sheet print control unit, a composition unit, and a composite print control unit. The access unit accesses a user image stored in a recording medium, the processing unit forms a background image by reducing a color gamut of the user image, and the order sheet print control unit causes a printer unit to create an order sheet on which the background image is printed in a free rendering area. Also, the composition unit separates an area of a subject recorded by a user in the free rendering area from an image of the free rendering area read by a scan unit based on a color gamut of the background image and superimposing the area of the subject on the user image to thereby form a composite image. Finally, the composite print control unit causes the printer unit to print the composite image. A method that the system performs is also provided.

Abstract: A printer has a display for selectively displaying a plurality of menu screens for setting various printing conditions. The menu screens include a standard menu screen and a specific-purpose menu screen. The standard menu screen includes a plurality of menus selectable for setting the printing conditions. The specific-purpose menu screen is, for example, a CD-R menu screen including some of the menus of the standard menu screen, or the menus related to printing conditions of a CD-R. The printer includes an insert opening into which the CD-R, or a printing medium, is inserted and a CD-R guide selectively opening or closing the insert opening. When the CD-R guide is open, the CD-R menu screen is automatically displayed on the display.

Abstract: It is generated a control information item including a script for the image processing which is described by a markup language. The control information item is communicated between an image supply device and an image output device connected via a communication path. A control protocol for communicating the control information item is interpreted by a first entity which executes processing for a first hierarchic layer of a communication protocol. A management protocol for managing an image data file including the image data is interpreted by a second entity which executes processing for a second hierarchic layer of the communication protocol which is lower than the first hierarchic layer. A physical layer of the communication path is controlled by a third entity which executes processing for a third hierarchic layer of the communication protocol which is lower than the second hierarchic layer. A command in the control information item is translated between the control protocol and the management protocol.

Abstract: At one of an image supply device storing image data and an image output device performing image processing with respect to the image data which are connected via a communication path through which the image data is communicated, one of a text command described by a markup language and a binary command described by a binary is selected as a command including a control information item for the image processing. From one of the image supply device and the image output device to the other, the selected one of the text command and the binary command is transmitted. At the other one of the image supply device and the image output device, it is performed processing specified by the control information included in the selected one of the text command and the binary command.

Abstract: In a print control apparatus of the invention, it is assumed that preprocessing with regard to a print object image specified as an object of image processing is currently being performed by an advanced processing execution module, at an input timing of an image processing instruction in response to a print instruction. On condition that a processing amount of the preprocessing currently performed by the advanced processing execution module has reached a predetermined level, an image processor waits for completion of the preprocessing performed by the advanced processing execution module and implements a correction process by utilizing a result of the preprocessing performed by the advanced processing execution module.

Abstract: A file management apparatus includes the following elements: a first non-volatile storage medium that holds a metadata group including a plurality of pieces of metadata corresponding to a predetermined file type; a detector that detects a file of the predetermined file type; a metadata guide unit that introduces, as selection options, the plurality of pieces of metadata included in the metadata group corresponding to the predetermined file type of the detected file; a metadata selection unit that accepts selection of at least one piece of the introduced metadata; and a management data storage unit that stores the selected metadata in association with the detected file in a second non-volatile storage medium in which the detected file is stored.

Abstract: An image processing method is performed by an image supply device storing image data and an image output device performing image processing with respect to the image data, which are connected via a communication path through which the image data is communicated. A control information item including a script for image processing, which is described by a markup language, is communicated between the image supply device and the image output device. The image data is transmitted to the image output device, based on the script.

Abstract: In response to a print instruction of a specified print object image, the print control apparatus of the invention corrects print object image data representing the specified print object image with a preset correction parameter set for improving picture quality of the specified print object image and prints the specified print object image according to corrected print object image data. A print object image specification module of the print control apparatus specifies the print object image as a printing object. A preprocessing execution module of the print control apparatus performs predetermined preprocessing of the print object image data representing the specified print object image to set the correction parameter used for correcting the specified print object image.