A video delivery system for luminance adjustment based upon a viewer adaptation state comprises a processor configured to: receive a source image including a current image frame including metadata corresponding to a mean luminance value of the current image frame, and the source image including an upcoming image frame including metadata corresponding to a mean luminance value of the upcoming image frame. The processor is configured to determine an ambient luminance value based on an ambient luminance, determine an incident luminance value based on the ambient luminance value and the mean luminance value, determine a difference between a current pupil size and a target pupil size, and generate an output image by modifying the source image based on a luminance adjustment factor, the luminance adjustment factor being a function of the difference between the current pupil size and the target pupil size.

An image processing apparatus that generates image data to generate a image by superimposing a first output image that is output from a first image output apparatus and a second output image that is output from a second image output apparatus, includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain input image data, a second obtaining unit configured to obtain first output image data to be output to the first image output apparatus, and a generation unit configured to generate second output image data to be output to the second image output apparatus based on the input image data and the first output image data, in which a sharpness of an image represented by the second output image data is in accordance with a sharpness of an image represented by the first output image data.

An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, which includes an illumination portion for irradiating an original placed on an original table with light and a light receiving portion for receiving irradiated light reflected from the original. The image reading apparatus reads the original one line at a time in a main scanning direction according to the received reflected light. The image reading apparatus determines the size of the original based on the reading result of the reading unit. The image reading apparatus shortens, in a case where the platen cover is in an open state, the lighting duration of the illumination portion than the duration where the platen cover is in a close state.

A three-dimensionally printed object includes a plurality of different material regions that together define a surface region of the object. The plurality of different material regions includes a first material region and a second material region. The first material region has a first color, and the second material region has a second color that is different from the first color. The different material regions overlap from each other within the object by different amounts viewed from different directions so that different proportions of light from the plurality of different material regions are visible to an observer viewing the surface region of the three-dimensionally printed object from different view directions, different view angles, and with illumination lighting the surface region at different angles. A coloration of the surface region is altered based on the proportions of light from the plurality of different material regions visible to the observer.

An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data including reflection characteristics information indicating reflection characteristics of a material with respect to incident light; a calculation unit configured to calculate, from reflection characteristics indicated by the reflection characteristics information corresponding to each pixel included in an area of a predetermined size in an image indicated by the image data, a statistical amount indicating the reflection characteristics of the area with the predetermined size; and a generation unit configured to generate arrangement data representing an arrangement of a structure including a printing material on a recording medium, based on the statistical amount.

Systems and methods of dynamically modifying visual content to account for user visual impairments utilize a plurality of generative adversarial networks. Each of the plurality of generative adversarial networks are associated with a corresponding style transfer, wherein the style transfer uniquely transforms the color mapping of a content template based on responses to at least one visual impairment test.

The present disclosure generally relates to printed structures and methods for generating the same. The printed structure includes a first surface including a first ink type arranged in a first image and a second surface at least partially aligned with at least a portion of the first surface, the second surface including a second type of ink arranged in a second image. The first and second surfaces are physically separated from one another, the first image is visible under a first set of light wavelengths and the second image is visible under a second set of light wavelengths.

A redundantly printed security-enhanced document, printing method, and system for better ensuring that the meaning of the information imparted by variable indicia printed by redundant printing indicia on a document protected by a removable Scratch-Off Coating (SOC). By printing the variable indicia with multiple colors, redundancy and integrity of the intended indicia is achieved relative to the perception of human eye photoreceptor cones. The redundantly printed document, methods, and systems enhance the overall appearance of the redundantly printed document, and reduce possible consequences resulting from misprinted variable indicia.

A display control device controls a display screen for displaying a preview of a print image to be printed on a recording medium by using an ink. The print image is printed using, as the ink, a structural color ink of which a color changes due to an optical phenomenon caused by a structure, and a color of the print image changes depending on an angle of visual recognition. The display control device includes: a processor. In a case where the print image is visually recognized at different angles, the processor is configured to display, on the display screen, a plurality of preview images corresponding to the angles by performing color conversion processing corresponding to the structural color ink.

An image processing apparatus converts, according to light on an image printed based on input image data, the input image data into image data for illumination output superimposed on the image, includes a deriving unit deriving an observing condition, an estimating unit estimating luminance characteristics based on the observing condition and reflectance characteristics corresponding to print image data, an introducing unit introducing target luminance characteristics based on the print luminance characteristics, a setting unit setting illumination converting characteristics converting the input image data into the image data for illumination output based on the print luminance characteristics and the target luminance characteristics, and a converting unit converting gradation of the input image data using the illuminance characteristics, and the introducing unit introducing the target luminance characteristics such that, when reproducing ranges in the print luminance characteristics are different, a linear region of output luminance of relatively large reproducing range becomes larger.