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.

Abstract: A plurality of processing information pieces representing operations or states relating to a process for a substrate are collected from each of a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses. In regard to each substrate processing apparatus, a degree of abnormality of the substrate processing apparatus is calculated as an abnormality score based on a plurality of processing information pieces collected from the substrate processing apparatus and invariant relationships in regard to a plurality of processing information pieces. A management device accepts an inspection request in regard to an abnormality transmitted from each substrate processing apparatus. When two or more inspection requests are accepted, the abnormality scores of the substrate processing apparatuses corresponding to these inspection requests are acquired.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing device coupled to a printing device that performs printing on a medium by ejecting ink having a plurality of colors, and configured to convert image data into ink amount data. The image processing device includes: an input unit configured to input a search condition; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of search values based on the search condition input by the input unit; a table storage unit storing a plurality of image conversion tables for converting the image data into the ink amount data; and a search unit configured to search the plurality of image conversion tables for a target image conversion table based on the plurality of search values acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: A selection system includes a constraint condition designation section configured to receive a designation of a constraint condition related to the ink amount set, an evaluation condition designation section configured to receive a designation of an evaluation condition including an evaluation index related to the ink amount set, an ink amount calculation section configured to obtain a plurality of ink amount set candidates by executing an optimization process under the constraint condition, an evaluation index calculation section configured to calculate each of the evaluation indexes for the plurality of ink amount set candidates, and a notification section that is configured to add the evaluation index to each of the plurality of ink amount set candidates and that is configured to present it to a user.

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 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. 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: 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: 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.