Abstract: A method of the disclosure includes (a) acquiring basic proof image data for reproducing a color of a basic printed matter obtained by applying a basic backing to a translucent print fabric, (b) acquiring texture information of the translucent fabric, (c) acquiring a basic backing color and an observation backing color, (d) creating foreground color proof image data by removing the basic backing color from the basic proof image data, and (e) creating observation proof image data by synthesizing the observation backing color with the foreground color proof image data. The step (e) includes (e1) determining an observation color mixing ratio that changes depending on lightness of the basic proof image data and (e2) creating the observation proof image data according to the observation color mixing ratio.

Abstract: An image processing method includes: (a) acquiring image data, (b) acquiring a print condition including at a type of the print medium, a type of printing, and/or a number of print layers, (c) displaying at least one preview image, based on the print condition, (d) when left-right reversal processing is required, executing the left-right reversal processing, (e) determining an arrangement position at which the print layer is arranged on the print medium and a stacking order in which a plurality of the print layers are stacked, according to the print condition, and (f) outputting print data, the print data designating the type of the print medium, the arrangement position, the stacking order, and the image on which the left-right reversal processing is executed or the left-right reversal processing is not executed, in order to print the image on the print medium.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a correspondence between input coordinate values in an input color space that depends on an input device and output coordinate values in an output color space that depends on an output device; and a processing unit configured to convert the input coordinate values into the output coordinate values in accordance with the correspondence.

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 defect discrimination device for printed image includes an inspection image acquisition section configured to acquire an inspection image by imaging a print medium on which an image is printed, the image corresponding to a reference image that becomes a reference of an image in which a defect is to be detected; a defect detection section configured to detect a state of the defect, the state including a defect type of the defect included in the printed inspection image; and a display section configured to display a display image corresponding to the inspection image, and an inspection result display section configured to display the detected defect together with the defect type of the defect, in a display mode according to the state of the defect.

Abstract: Image data of an image to be printed on a print medium is input, and a print condition that is a condition for printing on the print medium is acquired. A method of a bump representation when the image data is processed is selected from the acquired print condition, and a printed material is previewed using the selected method of the bump representation.

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: An imaging jig includes a comparison pattern surrounding a window portion configured as a light-transmissive region having a predetermined shape and including at least a first region and a second region having different tones. By using the imaging jig, a capture image including a medium and the comparison pattern is captured while the imaging jig overlaps with the medium. From the captured image being captured, medium image data based on the image of the medium and comparison image data based on the image of the comparison pattern are acquired, and the medium image data is corrected based on image data relating to the first region and the second region that are included in the comparison image data. Then, an image of a texture of the medium is extracted from the medium image data being corrected.

Abstract: The print medium identification method includes (a) a step of obtaining first physical property information about a print medium, (b) a step of obtaining second physical property information which is different from the first physical property information about the print medium, (c) a step of obtaining first discrimination information for discriminating a type of print medium by inputting the first physical property information to a first discriminator, (d) a step of obtaining second discrimination information for discriminating the type of print medium by inputting second physical property information to a second discriminator, and (e) a step of identifying the type of print medium by using the first discrimination information and the second discrimination information.

Abstract: A method for creating proof image data includes: (a) acquiring basic proof image data for reproducing, by a proof output device, a color of a printed matter to be printed on a printing medium using a printing machine; and (b) creating, by applying bleed applying processing to the basic proof image data using a bleed parameter representing a bleed state of an ink in the printed matter, bleed-applied proof image data simulating the bleed state.

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: The image processing method includes a step (a) of displaying on a display device a preview image of printed matter that reproduces a degree of a quality represented by a specified value that was set, a step (b) of, when a change instruction to change the degree of the quality is received, executing step (a) by using the specified value based on the change instruction, a step (c) of generating a print data that includes color ink information that is defined for printing a target image and that represents, in a predetermined fixed region, at least one of the size of dots of color ink to be recorded, the number of records of the dots, and an arrangement of the dots, and clear ink information that is defined based on the specified value and that represents, in a predetermined fixed region, at least one of the size of dots of clear ink to be recorded, the number of records of the dots, and an arrangement of the dots.

Abstract: A preview image representing the virtual three dimensional object of the printed matter that superimposed and combined in the stacking order of one or more print layers and a print medium, and the preview image processing method includes displaying, on a display device, the preview image corresponding to appearance in a three dimensional virtual space; receiving a change instruction to change the appearance of the three dimensional object; changing a posture of the three dimensional object in the virtual space and at least one of a viewpoint position and a viewing direction of a virtual camera with respect to the three dimensional object in the virtual space so that the appearance of the three dimensional object is changed in accordance with the change instruction, and displaying the preview image representing the three dimensional object after the change on the display device; and displaying, on the display device, together with the preview image, display information indicating the appearance of the three di

Abstract: The image processing method includes (a) receiving the stacking order of the print medium and one or more print layers, (b) displaying a preview image representing a state in which one or more virtual three dimensional objects corresponding to one or more print layers and the three dimensional object printed on the print medium are superimposed and combined, the preview image corresponding to how the preview image appears in a three dimensional virtual space, (c) displaying the preview image representing a state in which one or more three dimensional objects corresponding to one or more print layers and the three dimensional object printed on the print medium are stacked in the stacking order with intervals between them, the preview image corresponding to how the preview image appears in the virtual space, (d) receiving an instruction to execute one of (b) and (c), and executing the instructed one of (b) and (c).

Abstract: Prepare a learning model that has been trained to output similarity for each defect species by machine learning using a teacher image that is an image containing a defect occurring during printing and that is associated with a defect species in advance. Then, a target image is prepared for inspection by acquiring an image of printed matter that has been printed. By using the learning model with respect to this target image, the similarity of the defect present in the target image to a known defect species is acquired, and this similarity is used to discriminate the defect present in the target image as at least one of the known defect species. When updating the learning model based on this discrimination result, the learning model is made to perform machine learning for a defect species that is different from the discriminated defect species or that is associated with an unknown defect.

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: An assistance device assists a maintenance work for one or a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses. Further, the assistance device acquires deviation degree information. The deviation degree information represents respective degrees of deviation between a plurality of respective processing information pieces and a plurality of actually collected respective processing information pieces. The plurality of respective processing information pieces are predicted based on invariant relationships in regard to a plurality of processing information pieces representing operations or states related to a process for a substrate in each of one or a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses and a plurality of processing information pieces that are actually collected from the substrate processing apparatus. Further, the assistance device generates assistance information related to a maintenance work for the substrate processing apparatus based on the deviation degree information.

Abstract: A propriety determination device includes a dummy information generator that generates dummy information by replacing at least part of the plurality of processing information pieces collected from the substrate processing apparatus with a dummy data piece and provides the dummy information to the information analysis device, and a determiner that determines whether a detecting operation of the information analysis device is proper by determining whether the invariant relationships set in the information analysis device are adapted to the substrate processing apparatus based on whether, in a case in which the dummy information is provided to the information analysis device by the dummy information generator, an abnormality in the substrate processing apparatus has been detected by the information analysis device.

Abstract: Provided is a printing system including a display configured to provide a plurality of patterns including a first pattern in which a first image and a second image are printed on the same surface side of a transparent medium and a second pattern in which the first image and the second image are respectively printed on opposite sides of the transparent medium, and a printer configured to execute printing according to a pattern selected by a user from the patterns being provided.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus management system includes an information analysis device including a model generator that generates a representative model representing correlations in regard to a plurality of processing information pieces representing operations or states relating to a substrate process in a representative chamber among a plurality of chambers, and an assistance device that acquires a plurality of processing information pieces for each of the plurality of chambers, and generates assistance information relating to a maintenance work for another chamber based on comparison information in which correlations in regard to a plurality of processing information pieces for the other chamber are compared with a representative model.