| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D518497 |
Printing plate producing machine |
April 4, 2006 |
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| 7616344 |
Image processing apparatus and method for printing and plate making, and recording medium having |
November 10, 2009 |
| For page data containing shadow-casting objects, trap graphics are generated according to the following procedure. First, an ID drawing process is performed for all objects within a page, and based on the process result, a related graphic list indicating relative positional relations |
| 7614723 |
Printing system, controller for printing apparatus, method of executing printing process, and pr |
November 10, 2009 |
| For a low saturation and high density region in a printed sheet identified based on rasterized data, flushing ejection is executed, with landing positions dispersed in the region. For a region being low in saturation but not high in density, an edge portion of the region is determined as |
| 7612873 |
Surface form measuring apparatus and stress measuring apparatus and surface form measuring metho |
November 3, 2009 |
| In a stress measuring apparatus, reflected light of light emitted to a substrate through an objective lens is received by a light shielding pattern imaging part, to acquire an image of a light shielding pattern positioned at an aperture stop part of an optical system. A control part |
| 7612865 |
Pattern writing apparatus and pattern writing method |
November 3, 2009 |
| Light irradiation is performed on a strip region on a photosensitive material by main scanning of an irradiation region group on the photosensitive material where light emitted from a micromirror group of a DMD is directed and light is applied to a plurality of strip regions partiall |
| 7602534 |
Interface circuit device and printing apparatus |
October 13, 2009 |
| A CPU and an image memory are provided in a printing apparatus. An interface circuit device for inputting/outputting signals representing image data is interposed between the CPU and the image memory. The interface circuit device constitutes of a plurality of SSTL circuits. One of tw |
| 7598746 |
Surface voltmeter and surface voltage measurement method |
October 6, 2009 |
| A surface voltmeter has a stage having a conductive surface, a vibrating electrode, a vibration part, and an elevation mechanism. While vibrating the vibrating electrode, displacement current from the conductive surface is acquired. A control part controls electrode voltage so that the |
| 7589755 |
Apparatus and method for recording image on photosensitive material |
September 15, 2009 |
| A spatial light modulator has a plurality of grating elements. Each grating element can be switched between a diffracting state and a reflecting state, and only zeroth order light beams from the spatial light modulator are directed onto photosensitive material. An irradiation positio |
| 7586630 |
Print preview apparatus and method |
September 8, 2009 |
| The print preview screen has a button enabling the operator to select the direction in which previewed pages are offset. The print preview screen also has a display screen enabling the operator to specify which sheet is displayed in the foreground in front of all other sheets, which shee |
| 7564596 |
Image recording apparatus |
July 21, 2009 |
| Means for detecting scanning positions of first and second recording heads is provided for detecting that the first recording head is opposed to a recording inhibition area (in which an imaging material is not mounted) on a drum 1, based on an output from the detection means. While the |
| 7557919 |
Apparatus for detecting position of substrate, ellipsometer, and film thickness measuring appara |
July 7, 2009 |
| In an apparatus for detecting a position of a substrate in a film thickness measuring apparatus, an image pickup area on a substrate by an image pickup device of an imaging part is rotated by a rotation mechanism of a position detecting part. With this operation, an image of an edge of |
| 7535625 |
Image recording apparatus |
May 19, 2009 |
| A projection optical system has first to fourth lens groups (51) to (54) provided in this order from a SLM, a mirror (32) having an opening is provided between the first lens group (51) and the second lens group (52), and an aperture plate (132) is provided between the third lens gro |
| 7532365 |
Threshold matrix generation method, threshold matrix generation apparatus, and recording medium |
May 12, 2009 |
| In a threshold matrix generation part 3 implemented by a computer, a tint image in a specified gray level is generated from temporary lighting order set in a matrix area, and a smoothing operation is performed on the tint image, to generate a grayscale evaluation image. The lighting orde |
| 7525689 |
Trapping technique for an image which is configured by allocating a plurality of figures having |
April 28, 2009 |
| In trapping process of a multicolor image, an adjacent vector between an objective figure and a relative figure at an upper side is specified first. Then, with the use of the contour of the objective figure except for this adjacent vector, an adjacent vector between the objective figure |
| 7513265 |
High pressure processing method and apparatus |
April 7, 2009 |
| Disclosed is a high pressure processing method for subjecting a processing object to a high pressure processing using a high pressure fluid. In this method, the high pressure fluid is brought into collision with the surface of the processing object placed in a high pressure processing |
| 7490546 |
Image recording apparatus |
February 17, 2009 |
| To record images accurately regardless of rigidity and size of a recording medium, each rear end clamp has a clamp rubber element for engaging a variable margin of the recording medium mounted peripherally of the recording drum. The margin is varied according to the rigidity of the r |
| 7488610 |
Insulator film characteristic measuring method and insulator film characteristic measuring appar |
February 10, 2009 |
| A method is for measuring the characteristics of an insulator film (inner charge amount, film thickness, relative dielectric constant, surface voltage change due to a surface adsorbed substance, etc.) formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate in a non-contact manner. This method |
| 7483567 |
Device, program and method for generating a profile |
January 27, 2009 |
| A profile generation device obtains image data including information on pixel locations each indicating a location of a pixel, and extracts a location as an extraction point from the image data, the location being correlated with a predetermined color value to be used for generating a |
| 7480407 |
Surface region identification by image area segmentation |
January 20, 2009 |
| The present invention provides a technique to identify layout of surface regions of an object by image area segmentation. A plurality of images is acquired by imaging an object under a plurality of mutually different illumination conditions. By performing area segmentation on this pl |
| 7479205 |
Substrate processing apparatus |
January 20, 2009 |
| The substrate processing apparatus is provided with a gas-liquid mixing nozzle for generating a process liquid mist by mixing a liquid and a pressurized gas, to discharge the process liquid mist to a substrate at high speeds. The liquid may be remover liquid, intermediate rinse liquid |
| 7471421 |
Method of generating threshold matrix and recording medium storing data of threshold matrix |
December 30, 2008 |
| In a matrix area (720), a plurality of highlight-side dot centers (731) and a plurality of shadow-side dot centers (741) are regularly arranged and a plurality of reference points (751) are set while being distributed almost uniformly. Each of the dot centers (731, 741) is rotated about |
| 7468734 |
Apparatus for and method of graphic processing and computer-readable program |
December 23, 2008 |
| A graphic processing apparatus makes a scan of graphic primitives of a target graphic object to search for an outermost closed figure, and displays the scanned graphic primitives, a search starting point, a turnaround point, and a region surrounded by the scanned graphic primitives a |
| 7463763 |
Apparatus, method, and program for assisting in selection of pattern element for pattern matchin |
December 9, 2008 |
| A pattern-element extractor (51), one of functions implemented by a computer, extracts a plurality of pattern elements from a reference image, a region of which is displayed on a display (45). An input part (46) accepts an operator's selection of one out of the plurality of pattern e |
| 7457004 |
Halftone dot formation method, halftone dot formation apparatus, threshold matrix generation met |
November 25, 2008 |
| Halftone cells each serving as a unit for formation of a dot are arranged in irregular shapes at random and divided into two groups. The halftone cells (720) in the first group are fewer than the halftone cells (730) in the second group and dispersed, and the area of each of the halftone |
| 7440606 |
Defect detector and defect detection method |
October 21, 2008 |
| A control part of a defect detector is provided with a magnification operation part, an inspected image display part and a master image display part. The magnification operation part operates a display magnification .alpha.1 (display magnification data) for a defective area on the ba |
| 7440605 |
Defect inspection apparatus, defect inspection method and program |
October 21, 2008 |
| A reference image and an inspection image indicating pattern on a substrate are acquired and a specified pixel value range (63) is set on the basis of a histogram (62a) of pixel values of the reference image. Then, a transfer curve (71) having a large inclination in the specified pix |
| 7436993 |
Apparatus and method for detecting defects in periodic pattern on object |
October 14, 2008 |
| In a defect detection apparatus, images of first to third inspection areas on a substrate are picked up to acquire first to third images. A positional difference acquisition part (51) acquires a first difference vector between the first image and the second image and a second differe |
| 7436422 |
Light source module, optical unit array and pattern writing apparatus |
October 14, 2008 |
| An optical unit array comprises a plurality of optical units (2) in each of which a plurality of light source modules (1) are arranged and a first comb-teeth member (41) and a second comb-teeth member (42) which are provided for holding the optical units (2), and respective first pins |
| 7431420 |
Printing system, controller, print job creation apparatus, method of executing printing process, |
October 7, 2008 |
| During the creation of print job data on a job creation terminal, a flushing pattern placement reservation region is previously arbitrary specified and described in placement condition data. Flushing pattern data is previously stored in a storage part. A flushing judgment part specif |
| 7430544 |
Output image generating operation service using network |
September 30, 2008 |
| A paid operation queue Q1 and a trial operation queue Q2 are provided within an output operation execution system. Each request for execution of an operation job from a client device is entered into either the paid operation queue Q1 or the trial operation queue Q2. An operation job is |
| 7430069 |
Method of converting image data, image data conversion apparatus and program |
September 30, 2008 |
| A conversion computation section acquires the original color density value of a single process color in a given image region and the original color density value of a spot color from raster data, and acquires a pseudocolor conversion rate for conversion from the spot color to the pro |
| 7428907 |
Substrate processing apparatus |
September 30, 2008 |
| The substrate processing apparatus is provided with a gas-liquid mixing nozzle for generating a process liquid mist by mixing a liquid and a pressurized gas, to discharge the process liquid mist to a substrate at high speeds. The liquid may be remover liquid, intermediate rinse liquid |
| 7427520 |
Method and apparatus for measuring thickness of thin film formed on substrate |
September 23, 2008 |
| A memory (43) of a control unit (4) stores correction data (81) indicating a relationship between a decrement in a measurement value of a film thickness by removal of organic contamination adsorbed onto a substrate and an amount of adsorbed organic contamination corresponding to a di |
| 7418114 |
Print tone measuring method |
August 26, 2008 |
| A print tone measuring method includes a reference paper image pickup step for reading an image of reference paper to obtain first image data, a designated control point setting step for setting designated control points, a first reference point setting step for setting a pair of first |
| 7409081 |
Apparatus and computer-readable medium for assisting image classification |
August 5, 2008 |
| An inspection system 1 includes an image pickup apparatus 2 for picking up an image of a defect, an inspection and classification apparatus 4 for performing inspection and automatic classification of defects, and a host computer 5. The host computer 5 performs learning for automatic |
| 7407244 |
Printing method and printing apparatus |
August 5, 2008 |
| A timing signal generator generates an ejection timing signal each time a printing paper travels a predetermined distance relative to a head, and a driving signal generator inputs a driving signal based on writing data to the head each time an ejection timing signal is generated. In the |
| 7394564 |
Printing machine with a control unit that displays a plurality of key operation switches to cont |
July 1, 2008 |
| In an initial state, a key control switch for adjusting opening degrees of ink keys and a display changeover switch are displayed on a display screen of a touch sensitive control panel. The key control switch is a collection of key control switches individually arranged in areas corr |
| 7390133 |
Duplex printer including print unit shifting and web shifting mechanisms |
June 24, 2008 |
| After the front surface of a web is printed by a first-side printing unit, the web is shifted in the direction of its width by a direction-changing unit, flipped over by rollers, and transported to a second-side printing unit, where the back surface of the web is printed. A sensor detect |
| 7386167 |
Segmentation technique of an image |
June 10, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a technique to improve reliability of area segmentation result of an image into a plurality of image areas. A plurality of representative colors and a weight associated with each of the representative colors are determined. A weighted color difference i |
| 7382486 |
Printing system |
June 3, 2008 |
| Provided is a printing system capable of printing, when one or more pages are replaced after raster image processing (RIP), by performing RIP of only the page(s) to be replaced. A job ticket is issued from a printing apparatus. In a printing data creating apparatus, information of page |
| 7379585 |
Image processing for trapping in color printing |
May 27, 2008 |
| The trapping process described below reliably creates trapping images where needed even when there are small gaps between two adjacent image objects that are parts in the printed output. When a focus object and a related object that is below and adjoins the focus object touch at two |
| 7377614 |
Print inspection device, printer provided with the same and print inspection method |
May 27, 2008 |
| A carriage, which moves an inkjet head group composed of a plurality of inkjet head arrays laid approximately perpendicular to a printing paper transport direction, carries a line charge-coupled device (CCD). The line CCD has a reader element array composed of a plurality of reader eleme |
| 7375537 |
Method and apparatus for measuring relative dielectric constant |
May 20, 2008 |
| A relative-dielectric-constant measuring apparatus according to the present invention includes an ellipsometer and a capacitance measuring part. The ellipsometer allows non-contact measurements of the film thickness and optical constants of an insulation film formed on the upper surf |
| 7370929 |
Printer, dither matrix generation method, and recording medium |
May 13, 2008 |
| A printer has a head where outlets are arranged in a width direction perpendicular to a predetermined scan direction, and a printing paper moves under the head in the scan direction. In a basic dither matrix which is an array where element values are arranged in a column direction co |
| 7367266 |
Plate feeding apparatus |
May 6, 2008 |
| A plate feeding apparatus includes a multi-cassette unit for storing, in a stacked state, a plurality of cassettes storing plates, a loader unit for fetching from each cassette plates to be fed to an image recorder, and a plate feed unit disposed above the multi-cassette unit to be tilta |
| 7364151 |
Plate supplying apparatus |
April 29, 2008 |
| A plate supplying apparatus 1 allows, when taking out a plate P from a cassette 2 and transporting the plate toward an image recording apparatus 8, a support section 33 to operate such that the pivot angle of the support section 33 follows an optimum path based on the type of a plate P |
| 7363858 |
Printing apparatus with plate feeding mechanism having transport rollers |
April 29, 2008 |
| A printing apparatus includes a printing plate feeder for feeding printing plates to a first plate cylinder. The printing plate feeder has a pair of transport rollers acting as a leveling roller and a driven roller. The leveling roller is fixed to a leveling roller rotary shaft extending |
| 7363857 |
Cylindrical outer surface scanning apparatus |
April 29, 2008 |
| Depending on the lateral width thereof, an image recording material P is stably positioned on a recording drum, employing two positioning pins with an appropriate pitch therebetween. Non-contacting portions prevent any irrelevant positioning pins from coming into contact with the mat |
| 7362347 |
Image recording apparatus having a recording drum rotatable with a recording medium mounted peri |
April 22, 2008 |
| An image recording apparatus includes a recording drum rotatable with a printing plate mounted peripherally thereof, a recording head for recording an image on the printing plate mounted on the recording drum, a rotary encoder for detecting a rotation angle of the recording drum, a f |
| 7360866 |
Printer and head unit fabricating method |
April 22, 2008 |
| In a head unit of a printer, a head (5A) has outlet rows (611, 612, 621 and 622) arranged along a first tilt direction and a gap between outlets in the outlet rows (611 and 612) is interpolated with a outlet in the outlet rows (621 and 622) by a slight tilt. A head (5C) adjacent to the |
