Image processing device

• US 7,480,413 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2006
• Issued: 01/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishizuka, Ryuichi, Nishide, Yasushi, Kodama, Mari
• Primary Examiner(s): Desire; Gregory M
• Application Number:
  US11/647,256
• Publication Number:
  US 20080008389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• Field of Search: 382/199, 382/202, 382/258, 382/173, 358/1.9, 358/1.15, 358/1.18
• US Class Current: 382/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/00 Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data , e.g. computer output printersprinting or plotting combined with another operation, e.g. with conveying, G06K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/025 Simulating output on another printing arrangement, e.g. proof output matching two or more picture signal generators or two or more picture reproducers H04N1/6052

Abstract

An image processing device is structured such that an appropriate judgement of an image, at which blurring or disappearance or the like will occur, is possible. When pixels, which form a line image at which there is the possibility that blurring or disappearance will occur at the time of printing by using a printing plate, are extracted, a line image warning function gives notice by displaying a warning message on a monitor of a client terminal. Thereafter, image converting and print setting are carried out such that an extracted line image is clarified. In this way, when a proof is prepared, an image, at which there is the possibility that blurring or disappearance will occur on a printed matter obtained by using a printing plate, is clarified, and appropriate proofing is possible.

Claims

1. An image processing device, comprising:

a receiving section that receives a print job from an image processing terminal through a network, the print job including at least one of image data and a drawing command;

an extracting section that extracts a line image to be warned from the at least one of the image data and the drawing command;

an image converting section that converts the line image extracted by the extracting section into an image for warning; and

a warning section that warns that image conversion is carried out by the image converting section on the line image extracted by the extracting section.

2. An image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the warning section notifies, by displaying on the image processing terminal, that the line image is extracted by the extracting section.

3. An image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the image converting section carries out image conversion on the basis of a setting of the warning section.

4. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the line image has a possibility that at least one of a blurring and a disappearance occurs on a printed matter printed out by preparing a printing plate.