When a correction request is received, a printing correction pattern is printed. Thereafter, a screen prompting to scan the printed correction pattern is displayed. When the scan notification screen is displayed, if the scanning request is received, an image is scanned. Next, the driving information is corrected based on a scanned image. When a particular standby condition is satisfied without the scanning request being received, a process of setting non-completion information is performed. When a particular standby release condition is satisfied without the scanning request is received, a screen corresponding to the satisfied standby release condition is displayed at a particular timing. When the correction request is input when a screen different from the scan notification screen is displayed, information regarding necessity determination of the pattern printing process is received. When the pattern printing process is unnecessary, the notification displaying process is performed without performing the pattern printing process.

An image forming apparatus includes an optical sensor configured to detect reflected light from a detection image formed on the transfer member. The optical sensor includes a light emitting element configured to emit light for irradiating the detection image at a predetermined angle of incidence, a first light receiving element arranged at a position at which diffused reflected light from the detection image is received at a first angle of reflection, and a second light receiving element arranged at a position at which the diffused reflected light from the detection image is received at a second angle of reflection.

At least one of the first notification and the second notification is provided via a display device, based on a fact that, by the editing of an object, an object with a transmission property is overlapped on the front surface of an object to be printed by use of a spot color ink, the first notification being provided for warning that the object with the transmission property is in a state of being overlapped on the front surface of the object to be printed by use of the spot color ink, the second notification being provided for asking whether or not a predetermined overlapping state in which the object with the transmission property is overlapped on the front surface of the object to be printed by use of the spot color ink is to be maintained.

An image processing device includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to process a background image into which a latent image is embedded, to obtain an effect to conceal the latent image. The circuitry is configured to perform color conversion of the background image to obtain a color-matching masking effect to conceal the latent image. The circuitry is configured to embed the latent image in the background image processed and converted, to generate an image embedded with the latent image.

A technical solution for determining and applying a correction layer to a three dimensional (3D) object undergoing a 3D printing process is described. The system can include an emitter device, a receiver device, and a 3D printer device. The emitter can illuminate a surface portion of an object, and a receiver device can receive a light input reflected from the surface portion of the object. The 3D printer device can create a profile for the surface portion of the object using an angle of incidence and an image received from the receiver device, and determine a difference between the profile and the specification of the object. The 3D printer device can generate instructions to apply a correction layer using the difference between the specification and the profile of the surface of the object.

A method of controlling an image processing apparatus makes it possible to suppress, in an auto color selection function, color determination resulting from a minute color element of a document without troubling a user.

A method of controlling an image processing apparatus makes it possible to suppress, in an auto color selection function, color determination resulting from a minute color element of a document without troubling a user.

A method of visualization, characterization, and detection of objects within an image by applying a local micro-contrast convergence algorithm to a first image to produce a second image that is different from the first image, wherein all like objects converge into similar patterns or colors in the second image.

An image processing apparatus that generates image data for generating an image by overlaying a second image upon a first image, includes first obtaining unit configured to obtain color information including a first color and a second color, second obtaining unit configured to obtain first image data indicating a first image, where a plurality of third regions, in which a first region and a second region are included coexisting, are laid out at a resolution sensed as being a single region, and first generating unit configured to generate second image data for generating the second image, where the first color is laid out in the first region and the second color is laid out in the second region.

An image processing apparatus that generates image data for generating an image by overlaying a second image upon a first image, includes first obtaining unit configured to obtain color information including a first color and a second color, second obtaining unit configured to obtain first image data indicating a first image, where a plurality of third regions, in which a first region and a second region are included coexisting, are laid out at a resolution sensed as being a single region, and first generating unit configured to generate second image data for generating the second image, where the first color is laid out in the first region and the second color is laid out in the second region.