H04N1/603

Printing calibration
11192355 · 2021-12-07 · ·

In an example, a print target may be printed with a calibration target. The calibration target may comprise a first printing fluid figure printed on the print target and a second printing fluid figure printed on the print target. A geometric figure may be defined by the second printing fluid figure. The geometric figure may be negatively outlined in the second printing fluid figure. In an example, the calibration target may be processed to define a geometric relationship between a first printing fluid reference point and a second printing fluid reference point.

Distributing and managing color profile

An image forming apparatus determines whether a first image forming apparatus and the image forming apparatus are a same model, based on a first color profile used to determine a color output via a first image forming operation, and generates a second color profile that the image forming apparatus uses to output the same or a similar color to the color output via the first image forming operation.

COLOR PARAMETER GENERATION APPARATUS, EXECUTION APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
20210377413 · 2021-12-02 · ·

A color parameter generation apparatus includes a hardware processor that generates color parameters to be used for printing a sample image based on a read image, in which the hardware processor determines a flare degree at a predetermined position of the read image, and executes predetermined processing for correcting the color parameters in the predetermined position based on the determined flare degree.

Combined HDR/LDR video streaming

The invention provides methods for broadcasting video in a dual HDR/LDR format such that the video can be displayed in real time by both LDR and HDR display devices. Methods and devices of the invention process streams of pixels from multiple sensors in a frame-independent manner to produce an HDR video signal in real time. That HDR video signal is then tone-mapped to produce an LDR video signal, the LDR signal is subtracted from the HDR signal to calculate a residual signal, and the LDR signal and the residual signal are merged into a combined signal that is broadcast via a communications network.

Image processing for converting multi-spectral image by calculating the inner product of the spectral distribution of each pixel and the respective reference vector
11368603 · 2022-06-21 · ·

Provided is an image processing device which has: an image input part configured to input a multi-spectral image which includes N (N is an integer of 4 or more) channels corresponding to N bands; a reference vector setting part configured to cause a user to set, as three reference vectors, three types of N-dimensional vectors having sensitivities of the respective N bands as elements; and a conversion part configured to convert the multi-spectral image into a 3-channel image including three channels by decomposing a spectral distribution of each pixel of the multi-spectral image on the basis of the three reference vectors.

Image transformation system and method
11361413 · 2022-06-14 ·

An image reproduction system and methods for providing colorant data to an end device. A method includes extracting general HSV value data for each pixel of an image from image data. For each pixel, the general HSV value data is transformed to generate universal perceived brightness, Bp, and universal perceived-chroma, Cp, value data. End-device colorant data associated with the general HSV value data is retrieved for each pixel and scaled using the Bp and Cp value data to obtain scaled end-device colorant data. The scaled end-device colorant data is transmitted to the end device.

TRANSFORM MAP AT PRINTER CARTRIDGE
20220169031 · 2022-06-02 ·

A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.

Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to execute a first smoothing process of smoothing a black component of a color conversion table, calculate other color components of the color conversion table using the black component for which the first smoothing process is executed, and execute a first update process of updating the color conversion table based on the black component for which the first smoothing process is executed and the calculated other color components.

Printing device calibration system and methods
11350017 · 2022-05-31 · ·

Calibration requests are received at a network service. The network service assigns a request identifier for the data of a request. The request identifier is encoded into a control strip on a test color sheet using color patches. A color encoding key encodes the request identifier using the color patches. After the test color sheet is printed, a color measurement tool is used to decode the information from the control strip, including the request identifier. The color measurement tool measures the test color strips on test color sheet. The request identifier corresponds to the measurement data. The measurement data along with the request identifier is sent to the network service. The measurement data is processed to generate calibration data, which is used to update the printing device.

COLOR GAMUTS

In an example, a method includes obtaining, by a processor, a first set of vertices of a set of simplexes defining a hull of an initial color gamut. A value representing a size of a first simplex of the set of simplexes may be determined and compared to a first threshold. When the determined value is less than the first threshold, at least one vertex of the first simplex may be removed from the first set of vertices to determine a modified color gamut hull.