Image processing device

• US 8,009,917 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2008
• Issued: 08/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishizuka, Ryuichi, Nishide, Yasushi, Kodama, Mari
• Primary Examiner(s): Desire; Gregory M
• Application Number:
  US12/285,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20090051974A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,055 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.9, 358/1.15, 358/1.18, 382/199, 382/202, 382/258
• 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 though a network, the print job including a page layout to be printed;

an extracting section that extracts a line image to be warned from the page layout based on a threshold value of a line width specified by a user; and

a warning section that warns, under a condition that the extracting section extracts the line image, so that a user recognizes that the line image is included in the page layout.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the extracting section extracts the line image having the threshold value or less.

3. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the threshold value is a threshold of whether or not a blurring or a disappearance of a line image occurs on a printed matter printed out by preparing a printing plate.

4. The image processing device according to claim 1, further comprising an image converting section that converts the page layout so that a user recognizes that the line image is included in the page layout.

5. The image processing device according to claim 4, wherein the image converting section converts a color of the line image included in the page layout.

6. The image processing device according to claim 4, wherein the image converting section converts a width of the line image included in the page layout.

7. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the warning section notifies, by displaying on the image processing terminal, that the line image is included in the page layout.

8. An image processing method, comprising:

receiving a print job from an image processing terminal though a network, the print job including a page layout to be printed;

extracting a line image to be warned from the page layout based on a threshold value of a line width specified by a user; and

warning, under a condition that the extracting section extracts the line image, so that a user recognizes that the line image is included in the page layout.

9. The image processing method according to claim 8, wherein extracting the line image comprises extracting the line image having the threshold value or less.

10. The image processing method according to claim 8, wherein the threshold value is a threshold of whether or not a blurring or a disappearance of a line image occurs on a printed matter printed out by preparing a printing plate.

11. The image processing method according to claim 8, further comprising converting the page layout so that a user recognizes that the line image is included in the page layout.

12. The image processing method according to claim 11, wherein converting the page layout comprises converting a color of the line image included in the page layout.

13. The image processing method according to claim 11, wherein converting the page layout comprises converting a width of the line image included in the page layout.

14. The image processing device according to claim 8, wherein the warning comprises notifying, by displaying on the image processing terminal, that the line image is included in the page layout.

15. An image processing device, comprising:

an accepting section that accepts a threshold value of a line width,

an extracting section that extracts line image having a line width of the threshold value or less from a page layout in reference to the threshold value, the page layout being generated by an application program; and

a warning section that notifies a user whether or not the line image is included in the page layout based on a result of an extraction by the extracting section.

16. The image processing device according to claim 15, wherein the threshold value is a variable value which is capable of being set by a user.

17. The image processing device according to claim 15, wherein the threshold value indicates a threshold associated with whether or not a blurring or a disappearance of a line image occurs on a printed matter when the page layout is printed by preparing a printing plate.

18. The image processing device according to claim 15, wherein the warning section notifies the user, under the condition that the extracting section extracts the line image, that the line image is included in the page layout.

19. The image processing device according to claim 15, wherein the warning section controls a display to notify the user whether or not the line image is included in the page layout.

20. The image processing device according to claim 15, further comprising an image converting section that converts the page layout so that a user recognizes, when the converted page layout is displayed as a preview, that the line image is included in the page layout.

21. The image processing device according to claim 20, wherein the image converting section converts the page layout so that a user recognizes a position of the line image on the page layout.

22. The image processing device according to claim 20, wherein the image converting section converts a color associated with the line image so that a user recognizes a position of the line image on the page layout.

23. The image processing device according to claim 20, wherein the image converting section converts an original color associated with the line image to a color for warning so that a user recognizes a position of the line image on the page layout.

24. The image processing device according to claim 23, wherein the color for warning is selectable by a user.

25. An image processing method, comprising:

accepting a threshold value of a line width,

extracting a line image having a line width of the threshold value or less from a page layout in reference to the threshold value, the page layout being generated by an application program; and

notifying a user whether or not the line image is included in the page layout based on a result of an extraction by the extracting section.

26. The image processing method according to claim 25, wherein the threshold value is a variable value which is capable of being set by a user.

27. The image processing method according to claim 25, wherein the threshold value indicates a threshold associated with whether or not a blurring or a disappearance of a line image occurs on a printed matter when the page layout is printed by preparing a printing plate.

28. The image processing device according to claim 25, wherein notifying the user comprises notifying the user, under the condition that extracting the line image, that the line image is included in the page layout.

29. The image processing method according to claim 25, wherein notifying the user comprises controlling a display to notify the user whether or not the line image is included in the page layout.

30. The image processing method according to claim 25, further comprising converting the page layout so that a user recognizes, when the converted page layout is displayed as a preview, that the line image is included in the page layout.

31. The image processing method according to claim 30, wherein converting the page layout comprises converting the page layout so that a user recognizes a position of the line image on the page layout.

32. The image processing method according to claim 30, wherein converting the page layout comprises converting a color associated with the line image so that a user recognizes a position of the line image on the page layout.

33. The image processing method according to claim 30, wherein converting the page layout comprises converting an original color associated with the line image to a color for warning so that a user recognizes a position of the line image on the page layout.

34. The image processing device according to claim 33, wherein the color for warning is selectable by a user.

35. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for image processing, the process comprising:

accepting a threshold value of a line width,

extracting line image having a line width of the threshold value or less from a page layout in reference to the threshold value, the page layout being generated by an application program; and

notifying a user whether or not the line image is included in the page layout based on a result of an extraction by the extracting section.