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Number: 358/517
Name: Facsimile and static presentation processing > Natural color facsimile > Color separation > Color masking
Description: Subject matter wherein selected portions of an original color image are covered with a layer of opaque material so as to be eliminated from the color separated image.


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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7400763 Smart erasure brush Jul. 15, 2008
7396097 Printing control method, printing control apparatus, medium on which printing control program is recorded Jul. 8, 2008
7333670 Image sequence enhancement system and method Feb. 19, 2008
7196816 Method of applying trapping conditions Mar. 27, 2007
7177047 Gamut-preserving color imaging Feb. 13, 2007
7158271 Image processing apparatus Jan. 2, 2007
7062088 Variable lossy compression Jun. 13, 2006
7027663 Masking tool Apr. 11, 2006
6970595 Method and system for chroma key masking Nov. 29, 2005
6891638 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium May. 10, 2005
6826304 Reducing halos in spatially dependent gamut mapping Nov. 30, 2004
6817697 Systems and methods for printhead architecture hardware formatting Nov. 16, 2004
6804033 Image processing apparatus and method, and image processing system Oct. 12, 2004
6788441 Color image processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, color image processing method, image processing method, and a computer-readable recording medium for making a computer execute the Sep. 7, 2004
6771395 Image reading and processing apparatus, digital printing apparatus using the image reading and processing apparatus, and image reading and processing method Aug. 3, 2004
6717617 Image reader Apr. 6, 2004
6674544 Image processing method and apparatus Jan. 6, 2004
6667818 Multiple-field sensor for scanning system Dec. 23, 2003
6652067 Printing with varied types of ink dots Nov. 25, 2003
6498659 Character image layout method and device Dec. 24, 2002
6480623 Color image processing apparatus and color image processing method Nov. 12, 2002
6434269 Smart erasure brush Aug. 13, 2002
6411399 System for resolution enhancement, such as in a multi-pass ink-jet printer Jun. 25, 2002
6290330 Maintaining black edge quality in liquid ink printing Sep. 18, 2001
6157461 Method of generating randomized masks to improve image quality on a printing medium Dec. 5, 2000
6115138 Image forming apparatus Sep. 5, 2000
6084693 Process and apparatus for the determination of halftone percentage values Jul. 4, 2000
6081340 Image processing method to reduce marking material coverage with non-linear specifications Jun. 27, 2000
6046827 Film image reading system Apr. 4, 2000
6025937 Color image processing system which outputs color image data and a color processing signal based on a synchronizing signal Feb. 15, 2000
5999279 Image forming apparatus having an MTF correction unit Dec. 7, 1999
5995165 Color correction method and apparatus using uneven two-dimensional chromaticity partitioning Nov. 30, 1999
5978506 Colorant-independent color balancing methods and systems Nov. 2, 1999
5937088 Apparatus and method for improving memory usage of look-up table mapping Aug. 10, 1999
5887082 Image detecting apparatus Mar. 23, 1999
5884012 Method and apparatus of stencil composition process for color printing Mar. 16, 1999
5828816 Image processing apparatus and image processing method Oct. 27, 1998
5805313 Color correcting method and color correcting device involving masking equation variation based upon gray levels for a selected color Sep. 8, 1998
5761327 Group of measured fields for determining color data of a printed product Jun. 2, 1998
5754743 Apparatus and method for printing color screen displays on a monochrome printer May. 19, 1998
5739924 Photographed image printing apparatus capable of correcting image quality Apr. 14, 1998
5682443 Image color modification method and apparatus employing unsharp masking Oct. 28, 1997
5649071 Image processing method to reduce marking material coverage in sequential color printing processes Jul. 15, 1997
5633953 Image processing apparatus having improved color-reproducibility of color image May. 27, 1997
5552905 Image processing apparatus which selects a type of color processing for color image data based on a characteristic of the color image data Sep. 3, 1996
5530563 Process and apparatus for the determination of halftone percentage values Jun. 25, 1996
5499044 Method of producing positive prints from digital image signal data using a film recorder Mar. 12, 1996
5497436 System and method for bit-masked color signal scaling Mar. 5, 1996
5398109 Apparatus and method for correcting color image data according to a masking equation Mar. 14, 1995
5333069 Technique for use in conjunction with an imaging system for providing an appearance match between two images and for calibrating the system thereto Jul. 26, 1994

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