| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6272248 |
Original-discrimination system for discriminating special document, and image forming apparatus, |
August 7, 2001 |
| An original image comprises a printed region on which a predetermined printed matter is realized and a background region on which no printed matter is realized. The shape of a peripheral zone in the original image comprises the shape of the background region, which shape exists parti |
| 6014462 |
Image processing apparatus and method for distinguishing alphanumeric symbols on a white backgro |
January 11, 2000 |
| An image processing apparatus that distinguishes between alphanumeric symbols on a white background and those on a mesh pattern and performs individual image data processing includes an analog-to-digital converter for converting analog data to digital data, a first determiner for det |
| 5862434 |
Method and apparatus for forming an image on an image transfer medium and a method of forming an |
January 19, 1999 |
| A system of forming an image on an image transfer medium. The system forms an image according to image data on the image transfer medium and forms one color primer image on the image transfer medium at least in an area of the image. The system forms the image using the transfer medium an |
| 5809366 |
Method and system for calibrating a color copier |
September 15, 1998 |
| A method and system for adjusting or calibrating the colors output by an image processing system such as a full-color digital copier. After the copier is calibrated, the color balance standard within the copier is set using the calibration information. A portion of the image is printed b |
| 5801844 |
Image processing apparatus |
September 1, 1998 |
| An image processing apparatus which can produce improved quality copies by taking into account the effects which normally occur when successive copies of copies are made. When a document is to be copied, image information is input to a processing device relating to certain parameters |
| 5751854 |
Original-discrimination system for discriminating special document, and image forming apparatus, |
May 12, 1998 |
| An original image comprises a printed region on which a predetermined printed matter is realized and a background region on which no printed matter is realized. The shape of a peripheral zone in the original image comprises the shape of the background region, which shape exists parti |
| 5565993 |
Image processing apparatus for flexibly changing image data using a selective addressing scheme |
October 15, 1996 |
| In an image processing apparatus, an image reading unit reads an original for each line in a main scanning direction and outputs image data of the original. A memory unit stores the image data, the memory unit having a storage capacity equal to at least one line in the main scanning |
| 5465160 |
Composite image forming apparatus for automatically combining document and image characters |
November 7, 1995 |
| A composite image forming apparatus includes a scanning part for obtaining image data for each dot by scanning a document in a main scanning direction and scanning the same in a sub scanning direction, a character generating part for generating character data indicating either a char |
| 5444518 |
Image forming apparatus which adds identification information to recorded images to prevent forg |
August 22, 1995 |
| An image forming apparatus including an image reading unit for reading an original and for outputting image data corresponding to the original, an image processing unit for processing the image data supplied from the image reading unit in accordance with a predetermined method and for |
| 5333211 |
Image processing apparatus for preventing occurrence of moire in a reconstructed image |
July 26, 1994 |
| An image processing apparatus for image compression and decompression includes a smoothing part for smoothing image data of a reconstructed image by using a smoothing filter selected from among a plurality of smoothing filters having different smoothing effects, an averaging part for |
| 5206718 |
Color image processor for creating shadows and masks |
April 27, 1993 |
| An image processing apparatus for joining a shadow to, masking, or otherwise processing a color image. When an original color image is processed to have a shadow or to be masked, for example, the processed image is adequately colored. A shadow whose color components are consistent wi |
| 5204752 |
Image processing apparatus having shadow composition capability using binary data thinning and t |
April 20, 1993 |
| An image processing apparatus includes a control part for allowing real-time operations of a scanning unit and a recording unit, a binarizing part for generating signals indicative of binary data from input data, a preset data generating part for generating either a preset thinning width |
