An information processing apparatus includes at least one memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions. The set of instructions includes instructions to acquire color data from an application, set a generation method for generating gray image data from color data by selecting a method from a group including at least a first generation method and a second generation method different from the first generation method, generate PDL data of gray image data based on the acquired color data and the set generation method, and transmit the generated PDL data to a printing apparatus.

Systems and methods to initiate and perform the painting of an area of interest on a finger are herein disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of capturing an image of the finger in response to receiving a request to paint the area of interest on the finger and using the image of the finger to ascertain an area of interest of the fingernail to be painted. One embodiment includes, in response to determining that the user is satisfied with the area of interest that has been determined, initiating the painting of the area of interest and/or depicting, in real time, the painting of the area of interest to the user.

Systems for providing on-demand food service material printing for food service are provided herein. A food service material dispenser comprises a roll holder configured to hold a roll of food service material, one or more rollers, and a motor configured to operate to translate the food service material along a path within the dispenser. The dispenser includes a cutting arrangement configured to perform a cut of the food service material to form the sheet of food service material that defines a size associated with a food service order. The dispenser also includes a printer configured to print at least one of order information or personalization information on the food service material that is based on the associated food service order. The dispenser further includes a chute configured to dispense the sheet of food service material, which includes the at least one of order information or personalization information printed thereon.

A display apparatus includes: a display surface that displays information; and a display unit that, in response to a motion to move or place a mobile information terminal closer to or on the display surface, displays a first operation in which a first image is moved from the mobile information terminal to the display surface and displayed on the display surface, or a second operation in which a second image displayed on the display surface is moved from the display surface to the mobile information terminal.

A CPU of a PC executes display control processing that displays, on a display, a print image superimposed on a photographic image of a fabric captured by a camera, specified area processing that specifies, as a specified area, a predetermined area of the photographic image, and overlap deleted print image formation processing that forms an overlap deleted print image obtained by deleting an overlapping section from the print image that overlaps the specified area. The CPU projects the overlap deleted print image onto an object to be printed.

A printer-equipped camera includes an instant film pack loading unit in which an instant film pack, a first displaying unit of which a displaying surface is arranged to face an exposure surface of an instant film in the instant film pack through the exposure opening with respect to the instant film pack loaded in the instant film pack loading unit, and that exposes the instant film by displaying an image, a light exit direction restriction member that is included on the displaying surface of the first displaying unit and restricts a light exit direction of light from each pixel of the first displaying unit to a constant range, an imaging unit that captures a subject image, a second displaying unit that displays an image to an outside, a print instruction unit that provides a print instruction for the image displayed on the second displaying unit, and a displaying control unit that exposes the exposure surface of the instant film by displaying the image on the first displaying unit.

An electronic album editing device acquires image information and metadata from a storage unit and generates image data. An image identification device includes an image acquisition unit and an image identification unit. The image acquisition unit acquires image information and metadata corresponding to the image information. The image identification unit identifies a type of the acquired image information. The image identification unit identifies a target image as image information for which an actual size ratio can be specified if the metadata includes first information for ascertaining a size when a pixel size of the image information is projected to an object side. An actual size ratio calculation unit calculates an image size corresponding to the actual size ratio using the metadata when the image identification unit has identified an image for which the actual size ratio can be specified.

According to one embodiment, a method for formatting variable data production of a document can comprise defining, by a document production system, a set of rules. The set of rules can comprise one or more of a derived rule, a matching rule, or a formatting rule associated with one or more data objects of the document. The set of rules can be applied to the associated one or more data objects of the document based on dependencies between the rules in the set of rules. The dependencies between the rules in the set of rules are resolved in a hierarchically vertical manner. One or more custom documents can be generated based on the applied set of rules.

A system and method for generating a digital image collage is provided. The method comprises displaying a user interface comprising a collage template including a layout, and a catalog segment; displaying a plurality of digital images in the catalog segment; generating a first aperture in the layout to establish a first arrangement, and populating the first aperture with the first selected digital image; changing the layout from the first arrangement to a second arrangement, wherein the second arrangement comprises randomly dividing the first aperture into a second aperture and a third aperture, populating the second aperture with the first selected digital image, and populating the third aperture with the second selected digital image thereby generating the digital image collage.

A control method includes executing, in a case that a change instruction is accepted, at least a process for displaying a first post-change layout image on a display unit with a priority over a second post-change layout image with a higher degree of similarity to the pre-change layout image than the first post-change layout image or a process for displaying the first post-change layout image on the display unit in a more emphasized manner than the second post-change layout image.