ClassID:

229262

H04N1/4051 - CPC Classification

Classification description:

Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof; Picture signal circuits; Halftoning, i.e. converting the picture signal of a continuous-tone original into a corresponding signal showing only two levels producing a dispersed dots halftone pattern, the dots having substantially the same size

Sub-classes:
Recent Application in this class:
#1
20250310463
2025-10-02

PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE

#2
20240001670
2024-01-04

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, THRESHOLD MATRIX GENERATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHODS THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

#3
20220368809
2022-11-17

Precise circular halftones

#4
20220321735
2022-10-06

GRAIN PREDICTIONS

#5
20220263974
2022-08-18

Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium

#6
20220230031
2022-07-21

RASTER IMAGE PROCESSOR

#7
20220150378
2022-05-12

Method of printing authentication indicators with amplitude modulated halftone printing

#8
20210409572
2021-12-30

Selective reduction of print substance consumption

#9
20210402794
2021-12-30

Image processing device, recording apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

#10
20210224622
2021-07-22

Recording device and recording method using halftone processing technique

#11
20210203807
2021-07-01

Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that execute a density unevenness correction process in accordance with properties of recoding elements

#12
20210160399
2021-05-27

Printing system, method of generating halftone processing rule, method of acquiring characteristic parameter, image processing device, image processing method, halftone processing rule, halftone image, method of manufacturing printed material, inkjet printing system, and program

#13
20200204705
2020-06-25

Generating image region dot data based on corrected number of dots and determined arrangement priority

#14
20200169645
2020-05-28

Printing system, method of generating halftone processing rule, method of acquiring characteristic parameter, image processing device, image processing method, halftone processing rule, halftone image, method of manufacturing printed material, inkjet printing system, and program

#15
20200145555
2020-05-07

Controller, printer and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer program reducing the time for identifying a blank line in image data

#16
20200028988
2020-01-23

Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that execute a density unevenness correction process in accordance with properties of recording elements

#17
20200001616
2020-01-02

Image recording apparatus, dither mask, and image recording method

#18
20190208082
2019-07-04

Generation method, storage medium, and image forming apparatus that generate a threshold matrix by using determined thresholds

#19
20190197373
2019-06-27

Image processing apparatus image processing method and program

#20
20190191055
2019-06-20

Image forming apparatus for outputting a halftone image and image forming method

#21
20190132478
2019-05-02

Image forming device and method of interpolation of missing image dots

#22
20190124234
2019-04-25

Introducing visual noise in a flat tint area of a printed image

#23
20190109961
2019-04-11

Full color, digitally printed copy evident documents

#24
20190098173
2019-03-28

Method and system for amplitude modulated screening and protecting printouts, computer program, printing device and printed product

#25
20190098172
2019-03-28

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for generating a halftone image data

#26
20190070851
2019-03-07

Recording apparatus and recording method

#27
20190068832
2019-02-28

Image processing apparatus, method thereof, and image forming apparatus that determine a dot arrangement of printing material by halftone processing

#28
20190037103
2019-01-31

Dynamic dot gain lookup table generation

#29
20190028606
2019-01-24

Image processing device, image processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium

#30
20190014232
2019-01-10

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium with halftone processing using dither matrix of dot concentration type or dither matrix of dot distribution type

#31
20180352115
2018-12-06

Halftone mask manufacturing method and halftone mask manufacturing system

#32
20180341439
2018-11-29

Recording control apparatus and control method thereof, as well as imaging apparatus, information processing apparatus, and recording system

#33
20180332191
2018-11-15

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

#34
20180297373
2018-10-18

Inkjet printer

#35
20180249042
2018-08-30

Printing system, method of generating halftone processing rule, image processing device, and program acquiring parameters related to characteristic errors of the printing system

#36
20180239998
2018-08-23

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium

#37
20180218246
2018-08-02

Image forming system, image forming device, and image forming method

#38
20180013920
2018-01-11

Image processing apparatus that generates halftone image data and image processing method

#39
20170310851
2017-10-26

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

#40
20170289399
2017-10-05

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

#41
20170169548
2017-06-15

Image contrast enhancement method

#42
20170126930
2017-05-04

Image processing device including image size adjustment unit

#43
20170116502
2017-04-27

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program

#44
20170109857
2017-04-20

Method for generating a data-bearing halftone image, and method for decoding the data-bearing halftone image

#45
20170104894
2017-04-13

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for color separation and quantization processing

#46
20170085750
2017-03-23

Dither mask generation method and device

#47
20170085749
2017-03-23

Dither mask generation method and device

#48
20170050433
2017-02-23

Categorization of vertical edges corresponding to a halftone image

#49
20170013171
2017-01-12

Halftone dot screen generation with conditional arrangement of growth centers to form dot blocks and bridges connecting adjacent dot blocks

#50
20170013166
2017-01-12

Printing system, method of generating halftone processing rule, method of acquiring characteristic parameter, image processing device, image processing method, halftone processing rule, halftone image, method of manufacturing printed material, inkjet printing system, and program

#51
20170013165
2017-01-12

Image processing device and method, printing system, halftone process determination method, and program

#52
20160344896
2016-11-24

Apparatus and method using a mask producing a halftone image with centroids of clusters distributed stochastically and bridged-cluster combinations depending on threshold lightness levels

#53
20160224689
2016-08-04

Hidden Markov model generation of multi-plane random screens

#54
20160217358
2016-07-28

Data-bearing medium

#55
20160205285
2016-07-14

Image processing device adapting halftone process to plural printing modes with different resolution and dot arrangement

#56
20160173735
2016-06-16

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium for visual gradation correction

#57
20160173725
2016-06-16

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

#58
20160165094
2016-06-09

Determining a special-toner screen based on a type of gradation process for a color-toner screen

#59
20160155031
2016-06-02

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

#60
20160127608
2016-05-05

Image processing device, image processing method, and printing system

#61
20160110635
2016-04-21

Halftone data-bearing encoding system and halftone data-bearing decoding system

#62
20160088181
2016-03-24

Encoding method for generating a data-bearing halftone image, and decoding method for decoding the data-bearing image

#63
20160018774
2016-01-21

Image formation apparatus and image formation method

#64
20160012323
2016-01-14

Method for printing a grayscale raster image by grayscale value dispersion

#65
20160004942
2016-01-07

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, printing medium and storage medium

#66
20150371123
2015-12-24

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program

#67
20150356392
2015-12-10

Data-bearing media

#68
20150269462
2015-09-24

Image processing apparatus, control method, and computer-readable recording medium configured to perform error diffusion process having and adder to add an error intergrated value diffused to the target pixel, the green noise and the predetermined noise, to the pixel value of the target pixel

#69
20150222789
2015-08-06

PRINTING STRUCTURE OF MEDIUM SURFACE ON WHICH DOT PATTERN IS FORMED BY PRINTING, PRINTING METHOD, AND ITS READING METHOD

#70
20150222788
2015-08-06

Digital image halftone conversion with selective enhancement

#71
20150220824
2015-08-06

Image halftone processing by dithering or error diffusion based on pixel value or times of printing

#72
20150213750
2015-07-30

Method and system for image dithering

#73
20150181078
2015-06-25

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer readable recording medium storing program

#74
20150077808
2015-03-19

System and method for estimating continuous tone values from rendered binary input

#75
20150055185
2015-02-26

Halftone mechanism

#76
20150054866
2015-02-26

Print apparatus, print method, and serial printer

#77
20140362414
2014-12-11

Watermark and manufacturing method therefor

#78
20140327237
2014-11-06

Digitally printed anti-copy document and processes and products therefor

#79
20140320928
2014-10-30

Halftone screen

#80
20140313251
2014-10-23

Printing device and printing method

#81
20140293298
2014-10-02

Generating a threshold matrix to be compared with an original image for performing halftoning of the original image

#82
20140177003
2014-06-26

Printing apparatus, control method thereof, control program thereof, and manufacturing method of printing material

#83
20140153055
2014-06-05

Image processing for rendering an indexed color image

#84
20140139885
2014-05-22

Dither pattern forming method and dither pattern

#85
20140092403
2014-04-03

Image processing apparatus and image processing method generating binary data specifying dot arrangement in a unit area of a print medium

#86
20130278944
2013-10-24

Image processing apparatus and control method thereof

#87
20130257955
2013-10-03

Threshold matrix generation method, image data generation method, image data generation apparatus, image recording apparatus, and threshold matrix

#88
20130208998
2013-08-15

Image processing apparatus, method for reshaping threshold matrix, and computer-readable medium

#89
20130176599
2013-07-11

Halftone screen generation mechanism

#90
20130176578
2013-07-11

Mask generation mechanism

#91
20130163053
2013-06-27

2generation dot-off-dot stochastic halftone

#92
20130107325
2013-05-02

Dynamic image dithering

#93
20130063786
2013-03-14

Method and device for generating threshold matrix for determining state of formation of dots composing output image, quantizer comprising threshold matrix for generating output image data, and image forming device and storage device comprising threshold matrix

#94
20130038907
2013-02-14

Image processing apparatus and control method thereof

#95
20130027753
2013-01-31

Dither matrix creating device

#96
20130010339
2013-01-10

Threshold matrix generation device and method for generating threshold matrix for generating threshold matrix of predetermined size used for halftone processing of multitone image data using dithering method

#97
20130003095
2013-01-03

Image forming apparatus, method for controlling the same, and computer-readable recording medium

#98
20120307313
2012-12-06

Threshold matrix generating method, image data generating method, image data generating apparatus, image recording apparatus and recording medium

#99
20120293842
2012-11-22

Directional halftone method with enhanced edge and detail rendition

#100
20120287477
2012-11-15

Image processing apparatus and processing method of the image processing apparatus

#101
20120274978
2012-11-01

Halftone screen producing apparatus, print controlling apparatus, image forming apparatus, method of producing halftone screen, method of controlling printing, method of forming image, and computer-readable recording medium

#102
20120268796
2012-10-25

Image forming apparatus, method of controlling drawing processing, and recording medium storing drawing processing control program

#103
20120262475
2012-10-18

Method and apparatus to increase bit-depth on gray-scale and multi-channel images (inverse dithering)

#104
20120243052
2012-09-27

Printing apparatus, printing method, printing data generation program, and dither mask generation method

#105
20120243013
2012-09-27

Image processing device, printing device, image processing method, and image processing program

#106
20120243012
2012-09-27

Image processing apparatus for generating dot data for image data, printing apparatus for generating dot data for image data, and image processing method for generating dot data for image data

#107
20120242734
2012-09-27

Printing device and printing method

#108
20120200625
2012-08-09

Print data generation apparatus and print data generation method

#109
20120188609
2012-07-26

Image processing apparatus performing error diffusion process

#110
20120182586
2012-07-19

Quantization using dither matrix noise based on noise use rate and accumulated error based on error use rate

#111
20120176650
2012-07-12

Digital halftoning method and method for constructing class tiling map

#112
20120162719
2012-06-28

Image processing in contone space and halftone space

#113
20120162718
2012-06-28

Image processing in contone space and halftone space

#114
20120147428
2012-06-14

Printing methods and apparatus

#115
20120147424
2012-06-14

Redistribution of pixel values in an image forming apparatus or method

#116
20120140250
2012-06-07

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program

#117
20120127534
2012-05-24

Encoding and screening electronic integral images in printing systems

#118
20120118968
2012-05-17

Stream dot pattern, method of forming stream dot pattern, information input/output method using stream dot pattern, and dot pattern

#119
20120026554
2012-02-02

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

#120
20110235127
2011-09-29

Halftone image generation device that generates a blended halftone image of an image by partially selecting and blending a first halftone image obtained by halftone processing the specific image using a first method and a second halftone image obtained by halftone processing the specific image using a second method, associated halftone image generation method, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program

#121
20110235081
2011-09-29

Data processing system and image forming apparatus

#122
20110194339
2011-08-11

Microelectronic programmable device and methods of forming and programming the same

#123
20110149304
2011-06-23

Image Output Control System, Image Processing Device, and Image Processing Method

#124
20110141527
2011-06-16

Image processing device and printing apparatus for performing bidirectional printing

#125
20110122425
2011-05-26

Technique for Image Data Recording

#126
20110058224
2011-03-10

COLOR PROCESSOR, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COLOR PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

#127
20110038008
2011-02-17

Moire-free color halftoning methods, apparatus and systems

#128
20110038007
2011-02-17

Moiré-free color halftoning methods, apparatus and systems

#129
20110032574
2011-02-10

Image output system for outputting image based on information of number of dots to be formed in predetermined area

#130
20110032573
2011-02-10

System and method of halftone printing of image spot colors using ranked ordered pairing of colorants and halftone screens

#131
20100277770
2010-11-04

Color trapping on a halftoned bi-level bitmap

#132
20100253980
2010-10-07

Image processing apparatus and image processing method for binary and multivalue halftoning

#133
20100245927
2010-09-30

Tone dependent green-noise error diffusion method and printing device thereof

#134
20100245871
2010-09-30

METHOD OF CORRECTING PIXEL DATA AND FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS

#135
20100226587
2010-09-09

System and method for binarizing a gray-scale image in an electronic device

#136
20100135071
2010-06-03

Microelectronic programmable device and methods of forming and programming the same

#137
20100045722
2010-02-25

Correction of print engine artifacts using an iterative halftoning search algorithm

#138
20100002265
2010-01-07

Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus for performing halftone processing on point-of-purchase image

#139
20090290196
2009-11-26

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and program

#140
20090273812
2009-11-05

Method for halftone image transformation, printing and halftone mask generation

#141
20090262370
2009-10-22

System and method for distributing image values of a color separation

#142
20090213429
2009-08-27

Apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium for performing color material saving process

#143
20090184994
2009-07-23

Data processing apparatus, printing apparatus and method of creating mask pattern

#144
20090097052
2009-04-16

Image processing apparatus and method thereof

#145
20090086229
2009-04-02

Image Processing Device and Pixel Attribute Identification Method

#146
20090086227
2009-04-02

Device for changing screen ruling for image formation in accordance with relationship between luminance and saturation

#147
20090046312
2009-02-19

THRESHOLD MATRIX, A METHOD OF GENERATING THE SAME, AND A METHOD OF ASSIGNING THE SAME

#148
20090046118
2009-02-19

Multilevel screening mapping tone values to control signal values for greater color or shade fidelity and reduced print aberrations

#149
20090034008
2009-02-05

METHOD FOR GENERATING STOCHASTIC DITHER MATRIX

#150
20090034006
2009-02-05

STOCHASTIC HALFTONE IMAGES BASED ON SCREENING PARAMETERS

#151
20090015871
2009-01-15

Line printer

#152
20090009811
2009-01-08

Method for screening an image

#153
20080309983
2008-12-18

Method, apparatus and program for creating a threshold value matrix

#154
20080291500
2008-11-27

Threshold matrix generating method, image data generating method, image data generating apparatus, image recording apparatus and recording medium

#155
20080278764
2008-11-13

Image Processing Apparatus, Program, Image Forming Apparatus, Image Forming Method, And Dither Matrix

#156
20080266608
2008-10-30

Image processing device and printing apparatus for performing bidirectional printing

#157
20080265285
2008-10-30

Microelectric programmable device and methods of forming and programming the same

#158
20080239399
2008-10-02

Image processing apparatus and method, printer device, and computer readable recording medium

#159
20080218803
2008-09-11

Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable recording medium

#160
20080212118
2008-09-04

Dynamic image dithering

#161
20080192298
2008-08-14

Threshold matrix generation method, threshold matrix generating apparatus, and recording medium

#162
20080144113
2008-06-19

DITHERING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE DATA

#163
20080130024
2008-06-05

Printing method and apparatus

#164
20080123147
2008-05-29

Control Of Ink Ejection Amount Based on Dot Formation Order

#165
20080123146
2008-05-29

Dither matrix, image processing method, storage medium, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system

#166
20080117464
2008-05-22

Method and system for reducing auto-moire artifacts in periodic halftone screening

#167
20080111845
2008-05-15

Dithering unit for multi-segment printhead

#168
20080100871
2008-05-01

Image processing circuit, computer-readable medium, image processing method, and image processing apparatus

#169
20080088879
2008-04-17

HALFTONE DOT CONVERSION APPARATUS, HALFTONE DOT CONVERSION PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DOT MATRIX

#170
20080088878
2008-04-17

HALFTONE DOT CONVERSION APPARATUS, HALFTONE DOT CONVERSION PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DOT MATRIX

#171
20080055652
2008-03-06

IMAGE FORMING DEVICE HAVING A FUNCTION FOR SUPPRESSING A DOCUMENT BACKGROUND AND METHOD THEREOF

#172
20080055650
2008-03-06

Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and halftoning correction method thereof

#173
20080036812
2008-02-14

Image processing device and printing apparatus for performing bidirectional printing

#174
20080024826
2008-01-31

Image processing device and printing apparatus for performing bidirectional printing

#175
20080007786
2008-01-10

Method and apparatus for image manipulation via a dither matrix

#176
20070296990
2007-12-27

Halftone for reducing dot contact between different colors

#177
20070286513
2007-12-13

Automatic grainy noise control for optimal macro uniformity appearance

#178
20070273929
2007-11-29

Image forming apparatus

#179
20070258110
2007-11-08

Fast generation of dither matrix

#180
20070236743
2007-10-11

Generating threshold values in a dither matrix

#181
20070236738
2007-10-11

Image processing device, image processing method, storage medium for storing program and data signal

#182
20070236526
2007-10-11

Data processing apparatus, printing apparatus and method of creating mask pattern

#183
20070216954
2007-09-20

High quality halftone process

#184
20070188777
2007-08-16

Image output control system, image processing device, and image processing method

#185
20070171439
2007-07-26

Image output system for outputting image based on information of number of dots to be formed in predetermined area

#186
20070153333
2007-07-05

Fast generation of dither matrix

#187
20070139714
2007-06-21

Tools to embed information into digital visual works

#188
20070109604
2007-05-17

Data processing method, data processing apparatus, method for generating dither pattern, and dither pattern

#189
20070091134
2007-04-26

High-image-quality halftone process

#190
20070058204
2007-03-15

Halftone process giving specified characteristics to particular dot patterns, and generating and evaluating a dither matrix therefor

#191
20070047000
2007-03-01

Image Processing Device, Image Processing Method, and Program

#192
20070019241
2007-01-25

Dither matrix generator, print product, method for generating a dither matrix, program product, and image processing device

#193
20070002382
2007-01-04

Image processing method and apparatus, image forming apparatus, and method and program of creating dot pattern adjacency table

#194
20060284411
2006-12-21

Digitally printed anti-copy document and processes and products therefor

#195
20060262329
2006-11-23

Image processing device, image processing method and program product for the same

#196
20060256386
2006-11-16

Embedding computer information into printed media and process method thereof

#197
20060256124
2006-11-16

Digital halftoning technique based on 1-D multi-scale dot assignment

#198
20060221400
2006-10-05

Dot pattern forming apparatus and set of FM screen threshold matrices

#199
20060221399
2006-10-05

Process for the modeling of dots for a screen

#200
20060221395
2006-10-05

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

#201
20060214971
2006-09-28

Image processing method and apparatus, threshold value matrix creating method, image forming apparatus, sub-matrix creating method and program

#202
20060204089
2006-09-14

Method and apparatus for compensating for DOT gain in stochastic printing

#203
20060197990
2006-09-07

Tally image generating method, decoding method, tally image generator, and decoder

#204
20060197989
2006-09-07

Multi-configured halftone system

#205
20060193010
2006-08-31

Image processing device and printing apparatus for performing bidirectional printing

#206
20060187507
2006-08-24

Image recording apparatus, image recording method, method for controlling the image recording apparatus, storage medium storing a program capable of being read by a computer, and image processing method

#207
20060152767
2006-07-13

Threshold matrix generation method, threshold matrix generation apparatus, and recording medium

#208
20060139666
2006-06-29

Method for converting printing data and device using the same

#209
20060118848
2006-06-08

Microelectronic programmable device and methods of forming and programming the same

#210
20060114512
2006-06-01

Method for generating a threshold value matrix for frequency modulated half-toning

#211
20060028501
2006-02-09

Method for processing an image

#212
20050286084
2005-12-29

Method for generating a dither mask

#213
20050275900
2005-12-15

Methods and apparatus for generating dither mask through interpolation between preferred patterns

#214
20050275899
2005-12-15

Dithering method and related apparatus using aperiodic tiling rule

#215
20050264834
2005-12-01

Method of generating threshold matrix for creating halftone dot image and method and apparatus for creating halftone dot image and recording medium

#216
20050220523
2005-10-06

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, printer, printing method, and program therefor

#217
20050200901
2005-09-15

3D dither algorithm

#218
20050200864
2005-09-15

Pagewidth inkjet printer having composite image printing control

#219
20050195443
2005-09-08

Method and apparatus for processing images

#220
20050195442
2005-09-08

Threshold matrix, a method generating threshold matrix, and storage unit for storing threshold matrix as data

#221
20050195441
2005-09-08

Threshold matrix, storage unit for storing threshold matrix as data, and raster image processor incorporating storage unit

#222
20050195440
2005-09-08

Threshold matrix, a method of generating the same, and a method of assigning the same

#223
20050195439
2005-09-08

Threshold matrix, a method of generating the same, and a method of reproducing color image

#224
20050190230
2005-09-01

Pagewidth inkjet printer having buffered printing control

#225
20050179949
2005-08-18

Halftone-image processing device

#226
20050140998
2005-06-30

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program

#227
20050128523
2005-06-16

Reduction of differential gloss

#228
20050083555
2005-04-21

Method of adjusting halftone image dot positions for improving print quality

#229
20050083545
2005-04-21

Image processing technology performing designated processing on normal orthogonally transformed images

#230
20050063588
2005-03-24

Method and apparatus for compensating for dot gain in stochastic printing

#231
20050063015
2005-03-24

Technique for image data recording

#232
20050052705
2005-03-10

Images incorporating microstructures

#233
20050024685
2005-02-03

Stochastic halftone screening method

#234
14729286
2016-10-11

System and method for inoperative inkjet compensation

#235
14572114
2016-01-05

System and method for missing ejector correction for half-toned images in three-dimensional object printing by adding drops in other layers

#236
12617397
2014-06-24

Tone dependent threshold perturbation error diffusion halftone