Toolpath generation for additive manufacturing systems involves operations on polygonal contours derived from a model for additively manufacturing a structure. One aspect involves modifying or creating a model to allow parts to be printed without starting and stopping the printing equipment by generating continuous toolpaths or toolpaths having a reduced number of isolated paths. Another aspect involves modifying a slicing engine to generate a continuous toolpath or toolpath having a reduced number of isolated paths based on a representation of an object to be additively manufactured. Another aspect involves selectively placing the gaps at alternating positions among the sliced layers to create a zippering effect.

A computer program product and apparatus suitable may perform operations including receiving a first digital image, and identifying a pixel resolution of a display, the pixel resolution of the display being less than a pixel resolution of the first digital image. The operations may further include providing first data to the display to cause display of the first digital image at an image resolution adapted to the identified pixel resolution, wherein a section of the first digital image displayed on the display includes a first area of the display. The operations may further include receiving a user-initiated instruction to zoom in on the section of the first digital image, and providing, in response to receiving the user-initiated instruction, second data to the display to cause display of the section of the first digital image over a second area of the display that is greater than the first area.

A moire occurrence prediction means that predicts a region in which moire will occur and implements a moire suppression process only on a pattern including said region, thereby minimizing print deterioration, suppressing the occurrence of moire, and enabling high quality printing. The moire occurrence prediction means includes a communication unit for receiving an input image; a periodic structure inclusion determination unit for determining, in the input image; a periodic structure region that includes a periodic structure that induces occurrence of a moire; and a moire prediction unit for determining a risk of moire occurrence in each periodic structure region by performing a predetermined frequency analysis process with respect to each of the determined periodic structure regions, generating a moire occurrence notification that indicates the risk for each periodic structure region, and outputting the moire occurrence notification.

A data protection method is provided. The data protection method includes the following. A first image is obtained; at least one first object image in the first image is identified; the at least one first object image is analyzed to capture multiple first characteristic values of multiple characteristic points of the at least one first object image; and an encryption key is generated according to the first characteristic values.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, in accordance with a proportion of a black component with which to replace one or more non-black components that are color components other than the black component, replace the one or more non-black components with the black component for an image. The proportion of the black component is determined by brightness of the image, and when saturation of the image varies in a saturation range, the proportion decreases to a minimum value of the proportion with increasing saturation of the image and increases with increasing saturation of the image after the proportion decreases to the minimum value of the proportion.

This disclosure provides an image processing apparatus that is connected to a printing apparatus, sequentially receives a plurality of recording media on which printing was performed by the printing apparatus, and inspects a quality of images formed on the recording media, wherein the image processing apparatus receives a reference image, acquires a plurality of scanned images by sequentially scanning the recording media output from the printing apparatus and having the images to be inspected recorded thereon, receives phase information of an image bearing member of the printing apparatus, detects, for each of the scanned images, a defect on the scanned image by comparing a pixel value of the reference image and a pixel value of the scanned image, and determines whether a defect has reproducibility based on positions of defects on the recording media calculated from the phase information.

There are provided a line sensor (110) including two first sensor pixel rows (111a, 111b) and a second sensor pixel row (112a); an image obtaining unit (140) to obtain, from electrical signals obtained by scanning an original in a sub-scanning direction with the two first sensor pixel rows (111a, 111b), two first read image data items, and obtain, from electrical signals obtained by scanning the original in the sub-scanning direction with the second sensor pixel row (112a), a second read image data item; and an image processor (150) to incorporate one or more pixel data items of one or more pixels included in an interval between the two first sensor pixel rows (111a, 111b) out of the second read image data item into the two first read image data items, thereby generating a line image data item in which the one or more pixels in the interval are not vacant.

The system and method for super resolution processing at long standoff distances in real-time. The system collects a series of image frames and estimated the shift, rotation, and zoom parameters between each of the image frames. A matrix is generated and then an inversion is applied to the matrix to produce a super resolution image of an area of interest while mitigating the effect of any bad pixels on image quality. In some cases, the area of interest is user-defined and in some cases image chips are provided by tracking software. A fast steering mirror can be used to steer and/or dither the focal plane array.

An electronic apparatus including an input unit configured to separate image data into pixel blocks and serially input luminance data and color difference data of each pixel block as individual pieces of block data, respectively, a quantization unit configured to serially convert each piece of the block data into quantized data, an encoding unit configured to serially convert each piece of the quantized data into encoded data, a color generation unit configured to generate compressed color image data using the encoded data, and a monochrome generation unit configured to generate compressed monochrome image data using the encoded data by performing one of deleting particular pieces of encoded data corresponding to the color difference data from a data sequence of the encoded data generated through the conversion by the encoding unit, and replacing the particular pieces of encoded data with encoded data corresponding to monochrome color difference data.

A visible light sensor may be configured to sense environmental characteristics of a space using an image of the space. The visible light sensor may be controlled in one or more modes, including a daylight glare sensor mode, a daylighting sensor mode, a color sensor mode, and/or an occupancy/vacancy sensor mode. In the daylight glare sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to decrease or eliminate glare within a space. In the daylighting sensor mode and the color sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to provide a preferred amount of light and color temperature, respectively, within the space. In the occupancy/vacancy sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to detect an occupancy/vacancy condition within the space and adjust one or more control devices according to the occupation or vacancy of the space. The visible light sensor may be configured to protect the privacy of users within the space via software, a removable module, and/or a special sensor.