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Granted Patent B2
US 12689701 · App. 18/183,296 · Granted Jul 21, 2026

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for spot color conversion

Inventor: Yuichiro Koyama (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
H04N1/54
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12689701
App. No.
18/183,296
Granted
Jul 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect a first object and a second object from application data, a layer order of objects being specified in the application data, each of the first and second objects being presented in a predetermined display mode; and convert an object in a layer positioned between a layer of the first object and a layer of the second object into a spot color.

Claims (35)

1 . An information processing apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to:

detect a first object and a second object from application data, a layer order of objects being specified in the application data, each of the first and second objects being presented in a predetermined display mode; and

convert an object in a layer positioned between a layer of the first object and a layer of the second object into a spot color, wherein

the processor is configured to set the first object in a bottommost layer of the layer order and exclude an object in a layer higher than the layer of the second object.

2 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the application data is data which does not support spot colors and which is created by an application that is able to specify the layer order of objects.

3 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first object is a start edge indicating a start of a spot color converting range, while the second object is an end edge indicating an end of the spot color converting range; and

wherein the predetermined display mode of the first object is different from the predetermined display mode of the second object.

4 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein a type of spot color is associated with the predetermined display mode of the first object.

5 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined display mode of each of the first and second objects is expressed by at least one of a shape, color, and text.

6 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein a type of spot color is associated with the at least one of the shape, color, and text of the first object.

7 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to exclude each of the first and second objects from objects to be subjected to spot color printing.

8 . An information processing system comprising:

an information processing apparatus that performs spot color conversion; and

a terminal device connected to the information processing apparatus,

a processor of the terminal device configured to:

send application data in which a layer order of objects is specified to the information processing apparatus; and

a processor of the information processing apparatus configured to:

detect a first object and a second object from the application data received from the terminal device, each of the first and second objects being presented in a predetermined display mode; and

convert an object in a layer positioned between a layer of the first object and a layer of the second object into a spot color, wherein

the processor is configured to set the first object in a bottommost layer of the layer order and exclude an object in a layer higher than the layer of the second object.

9 . A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

detecting a first object and a second object from application data, a layer order of objects being specified in the application data, each of the first and second objects being presented in a predetermined display mode; and

converting an object in a layer positioned between a layer of the first object and a layer of the second object into a spot color, wherein

the first object is set in a bottommost layer of the layer order, and an object in a layer higher than the layer of the second object is excluded.

10 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

a spot color type is associated with the predetermined display mode of the first object, and

the object in the layer positioned between the layer of the first object and the layer of the second object is converted into the spot color based on the spot color type associated with the predetermined display mode of the first object.

11 . The information processing system to claim 8 , wherein

a spot color type is associated with the predetermined display mode of the first object, and

the object in the layer positioned between the layer of the first object and the layer of the second object is converted into the spot color based on the spot color type associated with the predetermined display mode of the first object.

12 . The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 9 , wherein

a spot color type is associated with the predetermined display mode of the first object, and

the object in the layer positioned between the layer of the first object and the layer of the second object is converted into the spot color based on the spot color type associated with the predetermined display mode of the first object.