Patents by Inventor Tatsuhiro Yamagata
Tatsuhiro Yamagata has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11412107Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs predetermined image processing for read data obtained by reading an image on a document by first and second reading sensors arranged so as to have an overlapping area. The predetermined image processing includes color correction processing of converting color signals detected by light receiving elements of the reading sensors into color signals with respect to each of pixels forming read data. Color correction processing for first read data obtained from light receiving elements of the first reading sensor not included in the overlapping area and color correction processing for second read data obtained from light receiving elements of the second reading sensor not included in the overlapping area are performed in accordance with different correction characteristics. By doing this, an image in which image unevenness caused by individual differences of the short reading sensors is reduced can be output.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20210218865Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs predetermined image processing for read data obtained by reading an image on a document by first and second reading sensors arranged so as to have an overlapping area. The predetermined image processing includes color correction processing of converting color signals detected by light receiving elements of the reading sensors into color signals with respect to each of pixels forming read data. Color correction processing for first read data obtained from light receiving elements of the first reading sensor not included in the overlapping area and color correction processing for second read data obtained from light receiving elements of the second reading sensor not included in the overlapping area are performed in accordance with different correction characteristics. By doing this, an image in which image unevenness caused by individual differences of the short reading sensors is reduced can be output.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Okinori TSUCHIYA, Kouta MURASAWA, Kazuya OGASAWARA, Tatsuhiro YAMAGATA, Yugo MOCHIZUKI, Toshiki MIYAZAKI, Masao KATO
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Patent number: 11057528Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs processing for putting a width of a line in an output in a case where printing is performed by a first printing apparatus based on print data including a line close to a width of a line in an output in a case where printing is performed by a second printing apparatus based on the print data. A first acquisition unit is configured to acquire first information relating to an output in a case where printed matter including a plurality of line width detection images is printed by the second printing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kouta Murasawa, Okinori Tsuchiya, Yugo Mochizuki, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 11017277Abstract: An object is to reduce a difference between a target line width and a width of a line that is printed by a printing apparatus by correcting the line width in accordance with color information indicating a color of the line in a case where an image is printed by the printing apparatus based on image data including the line based on print data. The present disclosure is an image processing apparatus having an acquisition unit configured to acquire a drawing command in which a color and a line width of a line are specified, a determination unit configured to determine a correction amount for correcting the line width specified in the drawing command based on the color of the line specified in the drawing command, and a correction unit configured to correct the line width specified in the drawing command in accordance with the correction amount.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Okinori Tsuchiya, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 11017276Abstract: An information processing apparatus processes image information printed by a printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a data obtaining unit to obtain print data for printing a line-width detection image including first multiple patches. Each of the first multiple patches includes multiple lines at substantially equal intervals in a first direction, each line having a first width in the first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting the first. The first multiple patches include first and second patches. A first substantially equal interval between a first plurality of lines in the first patch differs from a second substantially equal interval between a second plurality of lines in the second. An information obtaining unit obtains information on a print result of the printed line-width detection image. A correction unit corrects widths of lines in the first direction included in an image to be printed based on the obtained information.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yugo Mochizuki, Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 10944890Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit to acquire a first color reproduction characteristic indicating first color reproduction color values that indicate a color obtained by reproducing color values by a first printing apparatus, a second acquisition unit to acquire a second color reproduction characteristic indicating second reproduction color values that indicate a color obtained by reproducing color values by a second printing apparatus, a first generation unit to generate color matching information when color matching is performed between the first and second printing apparatuses based on the first and the second color reproduction characteristics, a third acquisition unit to acquire a first line width characteristic of the first printing apparatus, a fourth acquisition unit to acquire a second line width characteristic of the second printing apparatus, and a second generation unit to generate line width correction for correcting an input line width for the second printingType: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Kouta Murasawa, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 10872279Abstract: A width in a first direction of a line in image data corresponding to an image to be printed by a printing apparatus is corrected, based on information on a print result of line-width detection images printed based on line-width detection image data in a raster format that is generated by performing rasterization processing on line-width detection image data in a vector format. In the line-width detection image data in the vector format, a distance between centers of the widths in the first direction of two lines adjacent in the first direction in each line-width detection image is an integral multiple of a rasterization resolution in the rasterization processing.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20200104659Abstract: An object is to reduce a difference between a target line width and a width of a line that is printed by a printing apparatus by correcting the line width in accordance with color information indicating a color of the line in a case where an image is printed by the printing apparatus based on image data including the line based on print data. The present disclosure is an image processing apparatus having an acquisition unit configured to acquire a drawing command in which a color and a line width of a line are specified, a determination unit configured to determine a correction amount for correcting the line width specified in the drawing command based on the color of the line specified in the drawing command, and a correction unit configured to correct the line width specified in the drawing command in accordance with the correction amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Okinori Tsuchiya, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20200106927Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to highly accurately match both colors and line widths between different printing apparatuses. One embodiment of the present invention is an information processing apparatus including: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a color developing characteristic in image printing by a first printing apparatus; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a color developing characteristic in image printing by a second printing apparatus; a table generation unit configured to generate a color matching table used in a case where color matching is performed between the first printing apparatus and the second printing apparatus based on the acquired color developing characteristic of the first printing apparatus and the acquired color developing characteristic of the second printing apparatus; a third acquisition unit configured to acquire a line width characteristic of the first printing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Kouta Murasawa, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20200101728Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable a user to easily set a line width adjustment value in a case where line widths are matched between different printing apparatuses. One embodiment of the present invention is an information processing apparatus that performs processing for putting a width of a line in an output in a case where printing is performed by a first printing apparatus based on print data including a line close to a width of a line in an output in a case where printing is performed by a second printing apparatus based on the print data and has: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first information relating to an output in a case where printed matter including a plurality of line width detection images is printed by the second printing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Kouta Murasawa, Okinori Tsuchiya, Yugo Mochizuki, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20200104658Abstract: A width in a first direction of a line in image data corresponding to an image to be printed by a printing apparatus is corrected, based on information on print result of line-width detection images printed based on line-width detection image data in a raster format which is generated by performing rasterization processing on line-width detection image data in a vector format. In the line-width detection image data in the vector format, a distance between centers of the widths in the first direction of two lines adjacent in the first direction in each line-width detection image is an integral multiple of a rasterization resolution in the rasterization processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20200104654Abstract: Print data for a printing apparatus to print a line-width detection image including first multiple patches is obtained. Each of the first multiple patches includes multiple lines arranged side by side in a first direction, each line having a first width in the first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The distance between the centers in the first direction of two lines adjacent in the first direction of the multiple lines is different from one another. The widths of lines included in an image to be printed by the printing apparatus are corrected based on information on print result of the line-width detection image by the printing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Yugo Mochizuki, Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 10511744Abstract: An image processing apparatus processes image data to be used in a printing apparatus configured to perform forward and backward scan printing by using a print head in which nozzle arrays corresponding to multiple colors are aligned. The image processing apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to set a first control parameter in a case where image data to be processed does not include a line portion and to set a second control parameter in a case where the image data to be processed includes a line portion, the second parameter being different from the first control parameter; and a processing unit configured to perform, for the image data to be processed, processing to suppress a difference between a color printed in a forward scan and a color printed in a backward scan based on the control parameter set by the setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 10389910Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which employs a dither method capable of printing a thin line of desired density without any break irrespective of printing conditions. The first threshold changing unit changes part of threshold values in a threshold matrix to generate a first threshold matrix so as to increase the number of dots to be printed in a specific pixel area. The second threshold changing unit changes part of threshold values in the threshold matrix to generate a second threshold matrix such that the number of dots to be printed in a specific pixel area is smaller than the case of changing a threshold value by the first threshold changing unit. A determining unit determines whether a threshold value in the threshold matrix is to be changed by the first threshold changing unit or by the second threshold changing unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato, Okinori Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 10166782Abstract: The positions and widths of a shared printing area and the gradients of printing ratios are made different between front surface printing and back surface printing.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Junichi Nakagawa, Akitoshi Yamada, Okinori Tsuchiya, Takeru Sasaki
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Publication number: 20180332191Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which employs a dither method capable of printing a thin line of desired density without any break irrespective of printing conditions. The first threshold changing unit changes part of threshold values in a threshold matrix to generate a first threshold matrix so as to increase the number of dots to be printed in a specific pixel area. The second threshold changing unit changes part of threshold values in the threshold matrix to generate a second threshold matrix such that the number of dots to be printed in a specific pixel area is smaller than the case of changing a threshold value by the first threshold changing unit. A determining unit determines whether a threshold value in the threshold matrix is to be changed by the first threshold changing unit or by the second threshold changing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato, Okinori Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20180332193Abstract: An image processing apparatus processes image data to be used in a printing apparatus configured to perform forward and backward scan printing by using a print head in which nozzle arrays corresponding to multiple colors are aligned. The image processing apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to set a first control parameter in a case where image data to be processed does not include a line portion and to set a second control parameter in a case where the image data to be processed includes a line portion, the second parameter being different from the first control parameter; and a processing unit configured to perform, for the image data to be processed, processing to suppress a difference between a color printed in a forward scan and a color printed in a backward scan based on the control parameter set by the setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 10022982Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit, a scanning unit, and a recording control unit. The recording unit includes first and second recording parts each having multiple discharge orifice rows that each have multiple discharge orifices arrayed in a predetermined direction. The first recording part and the second recording part are separated from each other in an intersecting direction that intersects the predetermined direction. The scanning unit performs recording scanning by moving the recording unit. The recording control unit performs recording of a region on the recording medium including one edge of the recording medium by the first recording part alone, recording of another region including the other edge of the recording medium by the second recording part alone, and recording of a region in between the two regions using both recording parts.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Akitoshi Yamada, Junichi Nakagawa, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yuto Kajiwara, Takeru Sasaki
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Publication number: 20180147837Abstract: The positions and widths of a shared printing area and the gradients of printing ratios are made different between front surface printing and back surface printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Junichi Nakagawa, Akitoshi Yamada, Okinori Tsuchiya, Takeru Sasaki
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Publication number: 20170361622Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit, a scanning unit, and a recording control unit. The recording unit includes first and second recording parts each having multiple discharge orifice rows that each have multiple discharge orifices arrayed in a predetermined direction. The first recording part and the second recording part are separated from each other in an intersecting direction that intersects the predetermined direction. The scanning unit performs recording scanning by moving the recording unit. The recording control unit performs recording of a region on the recording medium including one edge of the recording medium by the first recording part alone, recording of another region including the other edge of the recording medium by the second recording part alone, and recording of a region in between the two regions using both recording parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Akitoshi Yamada, Junichi Nakagawa, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yuto Kajiwara, Takeru Sasaki