Abstract: To provide a highly reliable electronic control device in which an excitation amplifier that outputs an excitation signal to a resolver, a microcomputer, and a power supply IC are mounted, the electronic control device being capable of performing abnormality diagnosis of the excitation amplifier before activation and during operation of a system. An electronic control device includes a power supply IC; a microcomputer to which a power supply voltage is supplied from the power supply IC; an excitation amplifier that excites the resolver; and a diagnostic circuit that monitors an input signal and an output signal of the excitation amplifier and diagnoses abnormality; where the diagnostic circuit compares the input signal with the output signal to perform abnormality diagnosis of the excitation amplifier, and transmits a diagnosis result to the microcomputer.

Abstract: A color correction device includes: a color conversion unit configured to convert an input value in an input color space into an output value in an output color space; a selection unit configured to receive a selection, as a target color component, of one or more color components among a plurality of color components used in a printing device; and a correction unit configured to correct the output value in a manner of reducing the target color component when the input value represents a color not including the target color component. The correction unit reduces, when a specific multi-order color component different from the target color component is not included in the input value and the specific multi-order color component is included in the output value, the specific multi-order color component in the output value.

Abstract: A color correction device includes a color conversion section configured to convert an input value of an input color space into an output value of an output color space, a selection section configured to receive selection of one or more color components as target color components from among a plurality of color components used in a printing device, and a correction section configured to corrects a output value. The correction section configured to, when the input value is a first type input value representing a color that does not include the target color component, execute a first correction process that corrects a first type output value corresponding to a first type input value so as to reduce the target color component.

Abstract: A color correction device includes: a color conversion unit configured to convert an input value in an input color space into an output value in an output color space; a selection unit configured to receive a selection, as a target color component, of one or more color components among a plurality of color components used in a printing device; and a correction unit configured to correct the output value in a manner of reducing the target color component when the input value represents a color not including the target color component.

Abstract: A color correction device includes: a color conversion unit configured to convert an input value in an input color space into an output value in an output color space; a selection unit configured to receive a selection, as a target color component, of one or more color components among a plurality of color components used in a printing device; and a correction unit configured to execute a first correction process of correcting, when the input value is a first type input value representing a color not including the target color component, a first type output value corresponding to the first type input value in a manner of reducing the target color component. The first correction process includes non-target-color component correction of reducing a color difference between before and after correction by correcting an output value component corresponding to a non-target-color component that is a color component other than the target color component among the plurality of color components.

Abstract: A fixing device includes: a holding part that extends in a width direction of a recording medium being transported and that holds the recording medium; a pair of circulating parts that are attached to both ends of the holding part and that circulate to transport the recording medium; and a heating member that heats the recording medium in a non-contact manner and that is located in a space between the pair of circulating parts in the width direction.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a shielding degree calculation section that calculates a shielding degree of a printed layer, and a rendering section. The rendering section is configured to generate at least one of the front surface view, in which the printed object is observed from the front surface side, and the back surface view, in which the printed object is observed from the back surface side, by mapping an image data, which is color converted, to a 3D object and by performing rendering using the shielding degree of the printed layer.

Abstract: A design device for designing a print includes a design section configured to design the print according to an instruction of a user, a three-dimensional display section configured to cause a three-dimensional preview of the designed print to be displayed, and an unrolled display section configured to cause an unrolled preview of the designed print to be displayed. Both the three-dimensional preview and the unrolled preview are simultaneously visibly displayed, and a result of a predetermined operation performed by a user on one of the three-dimensional preview and the unrolled preview is reflected on both the three-dimensional preview and the unrolled preview.

Abstract: Provided is a reclining device that achieves effective prevention of abnormal sound while permitting a clearance to exist between a cam and a connecting rod. A reclining device includes: a pair of reclining mechanisms each having an internal gear and a cam; a connecting rod coaxially coupled to the cam and being rotatable together with the cam; and a resin bush having a fit hole to receive a fitting part at a portion adjacent to each end of the connecting rod. The resin bush is placed in a bush insertion hole in contact with an inner surface of the bush insertion hole of the internal gear to retain the connecting rod at such a position to the cam that a clearance exists between an inner surface of a rod insertion hole of the cam and an outer surface of the connecting rod.

Abstract: Image data expressed in a first color space is converted into an expression in a second color space to be used during rendering by using a color conversion profile, and converted image data is generated. A setting related to an application to physically-based rendering is performed on a parameter to be used when performing physically-based rendering on a print medium as a 3D object and related to an appearance of the print medium, the physically-based rendering of a printed print medium on which an input image is printed is performed using the set parameter, and a rendering image corresponding to an appearance of the print medium in a virtual space is displayed in a mode in which a difference in applications of the parameter during rendering is comparable.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image data acquisition section configured to acquire image data of an image to be printed on a print medium; a parameter acquisition section configured to acquire parameters for performing physical based rendering of the print medium on which the image is to be printed as a 3D object, the parameters including a normal line map representing a normal line direction of an irregularities surface of the print medium related to a reflection direction of light incident on the print medium; a correction section configured to correct strength of an application effect of the normal line map corresponded with the 3D object; and a rendering execution section for generating a rendering image representing the print medium on which the image is printed by executing the physical based rendering using the image data and the parameters.

Abstract: A print image is acquired as first image data represented in a first color space used for forming an image on a first print medium. Second image data is acquired by performing, on the first image data, conversion into representation in a profile connection space using a first conversion table and white point conversion using the information on appearance in a redetermined observation environment, of a base color section where an image is not formed on the first print medium. The second image data is converted by using a second conversion table into converted image data represented in a second color space used for forming an image on a second print medium and an image corresponding to the print image is formed on the second print medium by using the converted image data.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data; a print condition acquisition unit that acquires a print condition including a type of a print medium on which an image is printed; a parameter acquisition unit that acquires a texture parameter indicating a texture of the print medium; a color conversion unit that performs color conversion corresponding to the print condition, on the image data; and a rendering unit that executes rendering, causing the image data on which the color conversion is performed, to correspond to at least one of a front face and a back face of a 3D object representing a shape of the print medium, and causing the texture parameter to correspond to the front face and the back face of the 3D object, and thus generates a rendered image representing the print medium with the image printed thereon.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data; a print condition acquisition unit that acquires a print condition including a type of a print medium on which an image is printed; a parameter acquisition unit that acquires a texture parameter indicating a texture of the print medium; a color conversion unit that performs color conversion corresponding to the print condition, on the image data; and a rendering unit that executes rendering, causing the image data on which the color conversion is performed, to correspond to at least one of a front face and a back face of a 3D object representing a shape of the print medium, and causing the texture parameter to correspond to the front face and the back face of the 3D object, and thus generates a rendered image representing the print medium with the image printed thereon.

Abstract: Image data expressed in a first color space is converted into an expression in a second color space to be used during rendering by using a color conversion profile, and converted image data is generated. A setting related to an application to physically-based rendering is performed on a parameter to be used when performing physically-based rendering on a print medium as a 3D object and related to an appearance of the print medium, the physically-based rendering of a printed print medium on which an input image is printed is performed using the set parameter, and a rendering image corresponding to an appearance of the print medium in a virtual space is displayed in a mode in which a difference in applications of the parameter during rendering is comparable.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image data acquisition section configured to acquire image data of an image to be printed on a print medium; a parameter acquisition section configured to acquire parameters for performing physical based rendering of the print medium on which the image is to be printed as a 3D object, the parameters including a normal line map representing a normal line direction of an irregularities surface of the print medium related to a reflection direction of light incident on the print medium; a correction section configured to correct strength of an application effect of the normal line map corresponded with the 3D object; and a rendering execution section for generating a rendering image representing the print medium on which the image is printed by executing the physical based rendering using the image data and the parameters.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus sets, when image data expressed in a first color space is converted, using a color conversion profile prepared in advance, into expression in a second color space used in rendering, whether to apply a printing profile including a parameter relating to color development at the time when an image is printed. The image processing apparatus performs color conversion according to the setting of the propriety of the printing profile, generates converted image data, performs, using the converted image data and a necessary parameter, physically-based rendering of a printed printing medium on which the image is printed, and generates a rendering image corresponding to appearance in a virtual space of the printed printing medium. The image processing apparatus displays the rendering image obtained in this way in a form in which a difference in the propriety of the printing profile can be compared.

Abstract: An image processing device converts image data, which is data of an image expressed in a first color space, into an expression in a second color space used in rendering by using a color conversion profile prepared in advance, generates a converted image data, and generates a rendering image corresponding to the appearance of the printed-on print medium in a virtual space by performing physical based rendering of the printed-on print medium on which the image has been printed, using the converted image date and parameters necessary for performing physical based rendering of the print medium as a 3D object.

Abstract: A printing method includes: a color space conversion step; a gradation determination step of determining whether a pixel group forms a gradation; and a gradation region ink amount calculation step of calculating an ink amount of the pixel group determined to form the gradation. The gradation region ink amount calculation step includes an array information acquisition step of acquiring whether pixel values are arranged linearly, in a planar manner, or in a polyhedron manner in a uniform color space, a grating color value calculation step of determining a grating color value which is a color value of a grating point in the array, a grating ink amount calculation step of calculating, using the determined grating color value, a grating ink amount which is an ink amount of the grating point in the array, and an interpolation calculation step of calculating an ink amount of the pixel group determined to form the gradation by interpolation using the calculated grating ink amount.

Abstract: An image analyzer includes an in-use ink information determination section that determines an ink type to be used for printing and an ink quantity to be used for printing for the ink type as in-use ink information by using image data in accordance with conditions set in advance, a printed image quality information acquisition section that acquires at least one item of printed image quality information on image quality specified in advance and provided when the image data is printed by using the determined in-use ink information, and a display section that displays at least one of the in-use ink information and the printed image quality information.