The present invention is directed to obtaining an object having an anisotropic reflection characteristic without using a lenticular lens. A print product including a print medium on which a repetitive structure of projected portions and recessed portions is formed out of image forming materials including a color material includes a first layer formed on surfaces of the projected portions out of a first color material among the image forming materials, and a second layer formed on the recessed portions out of a second color material different from the first color material, wherein the projected portions have a height to occlude part of the second layer when observed at an angle different from an angle formed by a normal to a surface of the print medium.

The present invention is directed to obtaining an object having an anisotropic reflection characteristic without using a lenticular lens. A print product including a print medium on which a repetitive structure of projected portions and recessed portions is formed out of image forming materials including a color material includes a first layer formed on surfaces of the projected portions out of a first color material among the image forming materials, and a second layer formed on the recessed portions out of a second color material different from the first color material, wherein the projected portions have a height to occlude part of the second layer when observed at an angle different from an angle formed by a normal to a surface of the print medium.

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.

In an example, a method includes determining, using a processor, a first halftone screen comprising a plurality of cells. Each of the cells may contain a predetermined pixel cluster pattern, and a centre position of a cluster pattern within a first cell may be different to a centre position of a cluster pattern within a second cell.

A product design system includes a first transmitting section that uses a look-up table to convert second design image data for which image correction is completed into third design image data of a color space that is represented with a thermochromic material, and transmits the third design image data derived from the conversion to an external apparatus, and a second transmitting section that transmits a decorating request based on fourth design image data that is profile-transformed from the second design image data to a decorating apparatus.

An image forming system includes: a recording material information detecting apparatus; an image forming apparatus; and a management server, wherein the recording material information detecting apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that detects recording material characteristic information; and a second hardware processor that acquires first environmental information, the image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a second recording material; a third hardware processor that acquires second environmental information; a fourth hardware processor that transmits the second environmental information to the management server and requests the recording material characteristic information corresponding to the second environmental information; and a fifth hardware processor that sets an image formation condition for the image former to form the image on the second recording material, and the management server includes a sixth hardware processor.

A method for processing image data according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes obtaining first image data indicating a hyperspectral image of a target captured in first background light, generating, on a basis of the first image data, first spectral data indicating an estimated spectrum of the first background light, and generating, from the first image data, at least one piece of second image data indicating at least one image of the target in at least one type of second background light, which is different from the first background light, using at least one piece of second spectral data indicating at least one spectrum of the at least one type of second background light and the first spectral data.

Disclosed are a 3D scanner, an additive manufacturing system and an apparatus and method for identifying features of a 3D object manufactured in such a system. An apparatus comprises an optical projection assembly comprising a light source and an optical grating, for illuminating an object with first and second light patterns having different spatial frequencies, wherein the optical projection assembly provides a first light pattern in a first configuration of the optical projection assembly and provides a second light pattern in a second configuration of the optical projection assembly. An image capturing apparatus is used to capture images corresponding to reflections of the first and second light patterns from the illuminated object, and a processing unit is used to identify, from the captured reflections of the first and second light patterns, the effects of distortions in the reflected light patterns corresponding to features of the illuminated object.

An adjusted image data generating device includes storage and an adjusting section. The storage stores color reference data of a color reference therein. The adjusting section generates adjusted image data by adjusting an object image for image data representing a color reference image and the object image so that color data of a color reference image matches the color reference data. The color reference image is an image of a color reference. The image data is an image of an object.

An example image forming apparatus includes a communicator to receive print data, an image forming unit, and a processor to control the image forming unit to perform image processing on the received print data and control the image forming unit to print the image-processed print data. When the received print data is not a scan file, the image processing is performed at a first level and when the received print data is a scan file, the image processing is performed at a second level, the second level being higher than the first level.