Control for printing and image processing
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsSatoru Nishio, Masanori Saito
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Abstract
A CPU 150 in a personal computer PC acquires printing conditions stored in a RAM 151 set by a printer driver for controlling a printing operation in a color printer 20. The CPU 150 searches for set printing conditions, determines whether automatic image quality adjustment has been turned ON by the printer driver, and if it is determined that it has, the CPU 150 determines whether automatic image quality adjustment by an image processing application being executed is required. If it is determined that automatic image quality adjustment by the application is required, the CPU 150 sends an instruction to the printer driver to turn OFF the automatic image quality adjustment which is ON.
Claims29
A computer readable medium storing a computer program code for controlling an output state of image data in a printing device, the computer readable medium comprising:
- a computer program code for analyzing the image data, and acquiring characteristic parameters showing characteristics of the data;
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- a computer program code for selectively implementing either adjustment of image quality of the image data on a per print job basis with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters, or adjustment of image quality of the image data using an image processing program for adjusting image quality of the image data on a basis of individual image data with consideration of the characteristic parameters.
A computer readable medium storing a computer program code for implementing image processing on image data, the computer readable medium comprising:
- a computer program code for analyzing the image data and acquiring characteristic parameters showing characteristics of the image data;
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- a computer program code for selectively implementing either adjustment of image quality of the image data on a basis of individual image data with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters, or adjustment of image quality of the image data on a per print job basis using a printing control program for controlling a print state of the image data.
A computer readable medium storing a computer program code for implementing image processing on an image file containing image data, the computer readable medium comprising:
- a computer program code for analyzing the image data and acquiring characteristic parameters showing characteristics of the image data;
- a computer program code for adjusting image quality of the image data on a basis of individual image data with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters;
- a computer program code for adjusting the image data on a per print job basis with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters, and
- a computer program code for giving priority to image quality adjustment by the computer program code for adjusting image quality of the image data on the basis of individual image data over image quality adjustment by the computer program code for adjusting the image data on the per print job basis.
A computer readable medium storing a computer program code for implementing image processing on image data, the computer readable medium comprising:
- a computer program code for implementing a first image quality adjustment on the image data using image processing control information showing image processing conditions for image data,
- a computer program code for analyzing the image data, acquiring characteristic parameters showing characteristics of the image data, and implementing a second image quality adjustment on the image data using the acquired characteristic parameters, and
- a computer program code for prohibiting or decreasing image quality adjustment on image data by the computer program code for implementing second image quality adjustment when the image processing control information is associated with the data.
A printing control device for controlling output states of image data in a printing device, the printing control device comprising:
- a characteristic parameter acquisition unit for analyzing the image data and acquiring characteristic parameters showing characteristics for the image data;
- image quality adjustment unit for adjusting image quality of image data on a per print job basis with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters;
- duplicate image quality adjustment prevention unit for selectively allowing either image quality adjustment by an image processing operation for implementing image quality adjustment of the image data on a basis of individual image data with consideration of the characteristic parameters, or image quality adjustment by the image quality adjustment unit to be carried out;
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- transmission unit for transmitting the image quality adjusted image data to a printing device.
An image processing device for implementing image processing on an image file containing image data, the image processing device comprising:
- characteristic parameter unit for analyzing the data and acquiring characteristic parameters showing characteristics of the image data;
- image quality adjustment unit for adjusting image quality of the image data on a basis of individual image data with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters;
- image quality adjustment allowance unit for selectively allowing either image quality adjustment of the image data on a per print job basis by a printing control operation for controlling print states of image data, or image quality adjustment by the image quality adjustment unit;
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- transmission unit for transmitting image data whose image quality has been adjusted by the allowed image quality adjustment to the print device.
An image processing device for implementing image processing on an image file containing image data, the image processing device comprising:
- characteristic parameter acquiring unit for analyzing the image data and acquiring characteristic parameters showing characteristics of the image data;
- first image quality adjustment unit for adjusting image quality of the image data on a basis of individual image data with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters;
- second image quality adjustment unit for adjusting image quality of the image data on a per print job basis with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters;
- first priority unit for giving priority to image quality adjustment by the first image quality adjustment unit over image quality adjustment by the second image quality adjustment unit;
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- transmission unit for transmitting image data having undergone the image quality adjustment to a printing device.
A printing control method for controlling output states of image data in a printing device, the printing control method comprising:
- analyzing the image data and acquiring characteristic parameters showing characteristics of the image data;
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- selectively implementing either adjustment of image quality of the image data on a per print job basis with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters, or adjustment of image quality of the image data by an image processing program for adjusting image quality of the image data on a basis of individual image data with consideration of the characteristic parameters.
An image processing method for implementing image processing on an image file containing image data, the image processing method comprising:
- analyzing the image data and acquiring characteristic parameters showing characteristics of the image data;
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- selectively implementing either adjustment of image quality of the image data on a basis of individual image data with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters, or adjustment of image quality of the image data using a printing control program for controlling printing states of the image data for adjusting image quality of the image data on a per print job basis with consideration of the characteristic parameters.
An image processing device for implementing image processing on image data associated with image process control information designating image quality adjustment processing in the image processing device, the image processing device comprising:
- image quality adjustment unit for adjusting image quality of the image data based on a predetermined standard;
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- image quality adjustment limiting unit for prohibiting or decreasing image quality adjustment on the image data by the image quality adjustment unit based on the image process control information associated with the image data.
An image processing system for implementing image processing on image data, the image processing system comprising:
- a first image processing device including
- image data acquisition unit for acquiring image data;
- first image quality adjustment unit for implementing image quality adjustment on the acquired image data;
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- an output unit for associating image data which has undergone the image quality adjustment and image process control information designating the image quality adjustment processing, and outputting same;
- a second image processing device including
- acquisition unit for acquiring the outputted image data and the image process control information associated with the image data;
- second image quality adjustment unit for adjusting image quality of the image data based on a predetermined standard;
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- image quality adjustment limiting unit for prohibiting or decreasing image quality adjustment on the image data by the second image quality adjustment unit based on the image process control information associated with the image data.
A method for implementing image processing on image data, the method comprising:
- determining whether image process control information designating image quality adjustment processing in an image processing device has been associated with acquired image data;
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- prohibiting or decreasing adjustment of image quality of the image data based on a predetermined standard when the image process control information is associated with the acquired image data.
An image processing method for implementing image processing on image data, the processing method comprising:
- acquiring image data and implementing image quality adjustment on image data;
- associating image data having undergone the image quality adjustment and image process control information designating image quality adjustment processing in an image processing device and outputting same;
- acquiring the outputted image data and the image process control information associated with the image data;
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- prohibiting or decreasing adjustment of image quality for the image data based on a predetermined standard based on the image process control information associated with the image data.
A computer readable medium storing a computer program code for implementing image processing on image data to which image process control information designating image quality adjustment processing in an image processing device is associated, the computer readable medium comprising:
- a computer program code for adjusting image quality of the image data based on a predetermined standard;
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- a computer program code for prohibiting or decreasing image quality adjustment on the image data by a function for adjusting the image quality based on the image process control information associated with the image data.
A method of implementing image processing on an image file containing image data, the method comprising:
- analyzing the image data and acquiring characteristic parameters showing characteristics of the image data;
- adjusting image quality of the image data on a basis of individual image data with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters;
- adjusting the image quality of the data on a per print job basis with consideration of the acquired characteristic parameters, and
- giving first priority to image quality adjustment by the step of adjusting image quality of the image data on the basis of individual image data over image quality adjustment by the step of adjusting the image quality of the data on the per print job basis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.