Abstract: A management system includes a plurality of resources configured to be electrically connected to an external power supply, and a management device configured to manage the resources. The management device includes a planning unit and a management unit. The planning unit is configured to determine a power balancing plan of each of the resources by using first information on a use schedule of each of the resources and second information indicating a magnitude of an environmental load in a process of generating electric power to be supplied by the external power supply. The management unit is configured to manage the resources to cause each of the resources to operate according to the power balancing plan or a modified power balancing plan in power balancing of the external power supply.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a read image obtained by reading a printed document, and a determination unit configured to determine presence or absence of a streak included in the read image, by tracking a contour of the printed document from each of a plurality of points that are both end points of the read image in a direction orthogonal to a reading direction of the read image.

Abstract: A charging processing system includes: a power supply facility that supplies CO2 free power generated using renewable energy; a vehicle in which CO2 free charging is able to be performed to charge an onboard power storage device using the CO2 free power supplied from the power supply facility; a mobile terminal portable by a user of the vehicle; and a server. The server issues, when the CO2 free charging is performed in the vehicle, a coupon to the user of the vehicle in which the CO2 free charging is performed, the coupon being usable at a shop located around the power supply facility. When a timing to perform the CO2 free charging is included in a specific time period, the server increases the number of issued coupons and a usage value of each coupon.

Abstract: A charging processing system includes: a power supply facility that supplies CO2 free power; electrically powered vehicles that each perform CO2 free charging to charge an onboard power storage device using the CO2 free power supplied from the power supply facility; mobile terminals portable by users who own the electrically powered vehicles; and a server. The server issues a coupon to a user of an electrically powered vehicle in which the CO2 free charging is performed, the coupon being usable at a shop located around the power supply facility. The server includes: a storage device that stores user attribute information in which a user ID and an attribute of each user are associated with each other; and a control device that extracts a user who has a specific attribute by making reference to the user attribute information and that notifies coupon advance-notice information to the extracted user.

Abstract: A charging system includes a vehicle, a power supply facility, a mobile terminal, and a server. The power supply facility performs external charging by supplying power to the vehicle. The mobile terminal receives a user input from a user of the vehicle and provides a notification to the user. The server communicates with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal sets a first notification condition in the server in response to the user input. A second notification condition is set in the server in advance. The server determines whether or not each of the first notification condition and the second notification condition is satisfied during the external charging. When the first notification condition is satisfied, the server provides a first notification to the user through the mobile terminal. When the second notification condition is satisfied, the server provides a second notification to the user through the mobile terminal.

Abstract: To predict more accurately whether ink dots formed on the surface of paper by two nozzles arranged in a nozzle row and located at positions close to each other overlap. A luminance amount for each unit area surrounding each chart is derived from scanned data obtained by reading results of printing a plurality of charts (two-dot line chart corresponding to a nozzle pair of a nozzle of interest and a neighboring nozzle thereof among the plurality of nozzles) associated with a plurality of nozzles respectively. Then, based on the luminance amount for each unit area, the dot formation state in a dot formation line by the plurality of nozzles is determined.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus generates dot data for printing an image on a printing medium by using dots of different sizes formed by a plurality of nozzles ejecting ink. The image processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires dot data specifying printing or non-printing of each of the dots of a plurality of sizes for each pixel, a specification unit that specifies a dot having a strong possibility of being pulled by a dot having landed earlier on the printing medium of dots in the dot data, and a correction unit that corrects a dot specified by the specification unit in the dot data. The image processing apparatus can output an image whose banding is unlikely to be recognized by suppressing image defect due to a change of dots accompanying liquid droplet interference.

Abstract: A charging processing system includes: a power supply facility that supplies CO2 free power generated using renewable energy; a vehicle in which CO2 free charging is able to be performed to charge an onboard power storage device using the CO2 free power supplied from the power supply facility; a mobile terminal portable by a user of the vehicle; and a server. The server issues, when the CO2 free charging is performed in the vehicle, a coupon to the user of the vehicle in which the CO2 free charging is performed, the coupon being usable at a shop located around the power supply facility. When a timing to perform the CO2 free charging is included in a specific time period, the server increases the number of issued coupons and a usage value of each coupon.

Abstract: A charging system includes a vehicle, a power supply facility, a mobile terminal, and a server. The power supply facility performs external charging by supplying power to the vehicle. The mobile terminal receives a user input from a user of the vehicle and provides a notification to the user. The server communicates with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal sets a first notification condition in the server in response to the user input. A second notification condition is set in the server in advance. The server determines whether or not each of the first notification condition and the second notification condition is satisfied during the external charging. When the first notification condition is satisfied, the server provides a first notification to the user through the mobile terminal. When the second notification condition is satisfied, the server provides a second notification to the user through the mobile terminal.

Abstract: To predict more accurately whether ink dots formed on the surface of paper by two nozzles arranged in a nozzle row and located at positions close to each other overlap. A luminance amount for each unit area surrounding each chart is derived from scanned data obtained by reading results of printing a plurality of charts (two-dot line chart corresponding to a nozzle pair of a nozzle of interest and a neighboring nozzle thereof among the plurality of nozzles) associated with a plurality of nozzles respectively. Then, based on the luminance amount for each unit area, the dot formation state in a dot formation line by the plurality of nozzles is determined.

Abstract: A charging processing system includes: a power supply facility that supplies CO2 free power; electrically powered vehicles that each perform CO2 free charging to charge an onboard power storage device using the CO2 free power supplied from the power supply facility; mobile terminals portable by users who own the electrically powered vehicles; and a server. The server issues a coupon to a user of an electrically powered vehicle in which the CO2 free charging is performed, the coupon being usable at a shop located around the power supply facility. The server includes: a storage device that stores user attribute information in which a user ID and an attribute of each user are associated with each other; and a control device that extracts a user who has a specific attribute by making reference to the user attribute information and that notifies coupon advance-notice information to the extracted user.

Abstract: A generating device that generates a first color conversion LUT for converting an input image signal value into an output value of an actual color material installed in an image forming device, includes: an acquiring unit that acquires grid point position information indicating positions of the grid points in the first color conversion LUT; and a generating unit that generates the first color conversion LUT on the basis of grid point position information, wherein the generating unit determines whether or not an inflection point of an output value of the actual color material is at a position of the grid point, corrects at least some output values for at least two actual color materials in the second color conversion LUT in accordance with a determination result, and generates the first color conversion LUT obtained by thinning out the grid points in the second color conversion LUT.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus generates dot data for printing an image on a printing medium by using dots of different sizes formed by a plurality of nozzles ejecting ink. The image processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires dot data specifying printing or non-printing of each of the dots of a plurality of sizes for each pixel, a specification unit that specifies a dot having a strong possibility of being pulled by a dot having landed earlier on the printing medium of dots in the dot data, and a correction unit that corrects a dot specified by the specification unit in the dot data. The image processing apparatus can output an image whose banding is unlikely to be recognized by suppressing image defect due to a change of dots accompanying liquid droplet interference.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus according an aspect of the present disclosure converts image signals indicating an image to output signals including signals corresponding to individual color components that an output device deals with by interpolation processing using a look-up table. The apparatus includes a first conversion unit and at least one second conversion unit. The first conversion unit converts the image signals to image signals corresponding to linearity of the signals corresponding to the individual color components. The at least one second conversion unit converts the image signals converted by the first conversion unit to the output signals by the interpolation processing.

Abstract: A color conversion look-up table generating device of the present invention includes a converting unit configured to convert an actual color material value of a target grid point in the color conversion look-up table and an actual color material value of a neighbor grid point of the target grid point into virtual color material values, and a correcting unit that corrects the actual color material value of the target grid point on the basis of a virtual color material amount of the target grid point and a virtual color material amount of the neighbor grid point, wherein the virtual color material value is an output value of a virtual color material that absorbs only light of spectral reflectance in each of divided blocks in a case in which spectral reflectance of the actual color material is divided into n (n is an integer of 3 or more) blocks.

Abstract: In color separation processing by a method that combines a multidimensional LUT and interpolation processing, smooth gradation is implemented by reducing errors accompanying interpolation processing. An image processing apparatus includes a color separation processing unit configured to perform, by interpolation processing using a lookup table having a plurality of dimensions in accordance with signal components of an input image, color separation of an input value that is each pixel value of the input image into an output value corresponding to each of signal components handled by an output device, and each grid point of the lookup table is associated with information representing change characteristics at each portion between adjacent grid points for each dimension of the plurality of dimensions, and in the color separation processing, the interpolation processing is performed based on the information representing the change characteristics.

Abstract: A color conversion look-up table generating device of the present invention includes a converting unit configured to convert an actual color material value of a target grid point in the color conversion look-up table and an actual color material value of a neighbor grid point of the target grid point into virtual color material values, and a correcting unit that corrects the actual color material value of the target grid point on the basis of a virtual color material amount of the target grid point and a virtual color material amount of the neighbor grid point, wherein the virtual color material value is an output value of a virtual color material that absorbs only light of spectral reflectance in each of divided blocks in a case in which spectral reflectance of the actual color material is divided into n (n is an integer of 3 or more) blocks.

Abstract: A generating device that generates a first color conversion LUT for converting an input image signal value into an output value of an actual color material installed in an image forming device, includes: an acquiring unit that acquires grid point position information indicating positions of the grid points in the first color conversion LUT; and a generating unit that generates the first color conversion LUT on the basis of grid point position information, wherein the generating unit determines whether or not an inflection point of an output value of the actual color material is at a position of the grid point, corrects at least some output values for at least two actual color materials in the second color conversion LUT in accordance with a determination result, and generates the first color conversion LUT obtained by thinning out the grid points in the second color conversion LUT.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus according an aspect of the present disclosure converts image signals indicating an image to output signals including signals corresponding to individual color components that an output device deals with by interpolation processing using a look-up table. The apparatus includes a first conversion unit and at least one second conversion unit. The first conversion unit converts the image signals to image signals corresponding to linearity of the signals corresponding to the individual color components. The at least one second conversion unit converts the image signals converted by the first conversion unit to the output signals by the interpolation processing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit configured to input solid shape data expressing a shape of a solid object, and a generation unit configured to generate first data and second data from the solid shape data, the first data including a unit component in molding the solid object, the second data including a unit component to be formed using a dot of color material on a surface of a solid object expressed by the first data, the unit component of the second data being smaller than the unit component of the first data.