Image generation program and printer for printing composite image on a medium arranged so as to face a lens layer having a plurality of lenses
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTomoyuki Nakano, Hiroshi Shirotori, Hitoshi Toyoshima, Katsuhito Suzuki
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Abstract
An image generation method for generating an image, which is printed on a medium arranged so as to face a lens layer having a plurality of lenses and includes a three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional image, includes performing lossy compression for the two-dimensional image in a direction in which light focusing of the lenses occurs and magnifying the two-dimensional image in the direction in which the light focusing of the lenses occurs after the lossy compression for the two-dimensional image has been performed.
Claims8
An image generation method for generating a composite image data to be printed on a medium arranged so as to face a lens layer having a plurality of lenses, the method comprising:
- obtaining an image data including two-dimensional image data and three-dimensional image data, the three-dimensional image data having a plurality of division compressing images which have been compressed and arranged so as to provide a three-dimensional visualization through the lens layer, the two-dimensional image data being located in a first area of the image data, the three-dimensional image data being located in a second area of the image data, which is different from the first area;
- taking out the two-dimensional image data from the first area of the image data after obtaining the image data;
- performing lossy compression for the two-dimensional image data in a direction in which light focusing of the lenses occurs after the taking out of the two-dimensional image data;
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- expanding the two-dimensional image data in the direction in which the light focusing of the lenses occurs after the lossy compression for the two-dimensional image data has been performed.
A printer configured to print an image based on image data on a medium arranged so as to face a lens layer having a plurality of lenses, the printer comprising:
- a processor configured to obtain an image data including two-dimensional image data and three-dimensional image data, the three-dimensional image data having a plurality of division compressing images which have been compressed and arranged so as to provide a three-dimensional visualization through the lens layer, the two-dimensional image data being located in a first area of the image data, the three-dimensional image data being located in a second area of the image data, which is different from the first area;
- a compression processing section configured to take out the two-dimensional image data from the first area of the image data, and perform lossy compression for the two-dimensional image data in a direction in which the light focusing of the lenses occurs after taking out the two-dimensional image data;
- an expansion processing section configured to expand the two-dimensional image data, which has been compressed, in a direction equal to the direction in which the two-dimensional image data has been compressed;
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- a printing section configured to print the image after expanding the two-dimensional image data at the expansion processing section on the medium arranged so as to face the lens layer having the plurality of the lenses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.