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US 10,124,574 B2Granted
Information processing equipment and computer-readable recording medium for pressing multiple colors of metal leaf
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorKoichi Ono
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Abstract
According to one aspect of the present invention, when there is no leaf object striding over a boundary of two leaf rolls in a leaf image, a leaf image generating section performs processing for dividing first leaf image in first print data for leaves and a second leaf image of second print data for leaves at the boundary, replacing one of divided leaf images with one of other divided leaf images that hold the boundary between the first leaf image and the second leaf image to generate a first combined-leaves image and a second combined-leaves image, and rotating the second combined-leaves image at a predetermined angle.
Claims15
An information processing equipment comprising a processor functioning as:
- a stride-over determining section configured to extract leaf objects from first print data for leaves including a first leaf image in only a first color and second print data for leaves including a second leaf image in only a second color that are usable by a leaf pressing machine in which a first leaf roll in the first color and a second leaf roll in the second color are arranged adjacent to each other in a vertical direction with respect to a sheet forwarding direction of the leaf pressing machine, and determine whether or not any one of the extracted leaf objects strides over a boundary between a first region associated with the first leaf roll and a second region associated with the second leaf roll;
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- a print data for combined leaves generating section configured to, when the stride-over determining section determines that there is no leaf object striding over the boundary, perform processing for dividing each of the first leaf image and the second leaf image at the boundary, combining a first divided portion of the first leaf image with a first divided portion of the second leaf image to generate a first combined-leaves image, combining a second divided portion of the first leaf image with a second divided portion of the second leaf image to generate a second combined-leaves image, rotating the second combined-leaves image at a predetermined angle, generating first print data for combined leaves for the first combined-leaves image, and generating second print data for combined leaves for the rotated second combined-leaves image,
- wherein the processor is configured to
- output the first print data for combined leaves for use by the leaf pressing machine in a first pressing process to press on a sheet the first divided portion of the first leaf image with the first leaf roll in the first color and the first divided portion of the second leaf image with the second leaf roll in the second color, and
- output the second print data for combined leaves for use by the leaf pressing machine to press on the sheet, having been subjected to the first pressing process, the second divided portion of the first leaf image with the first leaf roll in the first color and the second divided portion of the second leaf image with the second leaf roll in the second color.
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A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a process comprising:
- generating, from submitted data, first print data for leaves including a first leaf image in only a first color and second print data for leaves including a second leaf image in only a second color that are usable by a leaf pressing machine in which a first leaf roll in the first color and a second leaf roll in the second color are arranged adjacent to each other in a vertical direction with respect to a sheet forwarding direction of the leaf pressing machine;
- extracting leaf objects from first print data for leaves and the second print data for leaves, and determining whether or not any one of the extracted leaf objects strides over a boundary between a first region associated with the first leaf roll and a second region associated with the second leaf roll;
- performing, upon determining that there is no leaf object striding over the boundary, processing for dividing each of the first leaf image and the second leaf image at the boundary, combining a first divided portion of the first leaf image with a first divided portion of the second leaf image to generate a first combined-leaves image, combining a second divided portion of the first leaf image with a second divided portion of the second leaf image to generate a second combined-leaves image, rotating the second combined-leaves image at a predetermined angle, generating first print data for combined leaves for the first combined-leaves image, and generating second print data for combined leaves for the rotated second combined-leaves image;
- outputting the first print data for combined leaves for use by the leaf pressing machine in a first pressing process to press on a sheet the first divided portion of the first leaf image with the first leaf roll in the first color and the first divided portion of the second leaf image with the second leaf roll in the second color;
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- outputting the second print data for combined leaves for use by the leaf pressing machine to press on the sheet, having been subjected to the first pressing process, the second divided portion of the first leaf image with the first leaf roll in the first color and the second divided portion of the second leaf image with the second leaf roll in the second color.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.