US 5,473,748 AGranted

Method and apparatus for automatically selecting process information for execution during printing of a page

AssigneeDainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.

InventorsJitsukazu Date, Koji Hatada, Norihiko Nakamura

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Abstract

A method and apparatus for automatically selecting process information for a plurality of image parts, in which a CPU, in an automatic reproduction process routine, determines a positional relation between two image parts in a page image based on figure vector data corresponding to the two image parts (S110). A rule including data such as vertical relative positions, types, and colors of the two image parts as a condition part and process information as an action part is previously stored as rule base RB in an external hard disk unit. When the two image parts are in a non-separate relation, the CPU reads attribute data of the two image parts in the non-separate relation (S150), and determines final process information by exchanging the attribute data with rule base RB (S190 and S200). The results of the processing including the final process information are then stored as a process information table TBL3.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus for selecting process information representing a specific prepress process for an image of a page including a plurality of image parts, said apparatus comprising:

an image part memory for storing (i) respective figure data representing a shape and a position of each of said plurality of image parts in said image of a page, (ii) respective attribute data representing a type and a color of each of said plurality of image parts, and (iii) respective ordinal data representing an order of laying out each of said plurality of image parts in said image of a page;
selection means for selecting respective figure data corresponding to two image parts of said plurality of image parts out of said figure data stored in said image part memory;
positional relation judging means for judging whether said two image parts corresponding to said selected figure data are separated from one another on said image of a page;
attribute data reading means for reading respective attribute data and respective ordinal data corresponding to said two image parts from said image part memory if said two image parts are not separated on said image of a page;
process information allocation means for allocating process information to said two image parts based on said attribute data and said ordinal data corresponding to said two image parts;
and
a process information memory for storing said process information allocated to said two image parts by said process information allocation means.

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A method for selecting process information representing a specific prepress process for an image of a page including a plurality of image parts, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) storing (i) respective figure data representing a shape and a position of each of said plurality of image parts in said image of a page, (ii) respective attribute data representing a type and a color of each of said plurality of image parts, and (iii) respective ordinal data representing an order of laying out of each of said plurality of image parts in said image of a page;
(b) selecting respective figure data corresponding to two of said image parts of said plurality of image parts out of said aforementioned figure data;
(c) judging whether said two image parts corresponding to said figure data selected in step (b) are separated from one another on said image of a page;
(d) reading respective attribute data and respective ordinal data corresponding to said two image parts stored in step (a) if said two image parts are not separated on said image of a page;
(e) allocating process information to said two image parts based on said attribute data and said ordinal data corresponding to said two image parts;
and
(f) storing said process information allocated to said two image parts in step (e).

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