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Granted Patent B2
US 11,165,930 · App. 16/941,851 · Granted Nov 2, 2021

Information processing apparatus, color conversion profile creation method, and learning apparatus

Inventors: Jin Hasegawa (Shiojiri, JP); Satoru Ono (Shiojiri, JP)
Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
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Patent No.
US 11,165,930
App. No.
16/941,851
Granted
Nov 2, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information processing apparatus configured to store a machine-learned model that learned, by machine learning, a relationship between a type of a printing medium, an amount of a coloring material on the printing medium per unit area, and an image including a linear image and printed on the printing medium; and estimate, based on a selection information and a imaging information, by using the machine-learned model, a limit value indicating a maximum value or a minimum value of an amount of the coloring material to be used for printing on the printing medium by the printing section per unit area; and create, by using the limit value, a color conversion profile including information regarding mapping between a coordinate value in a color space and an amount of the coloring material.

Claims (22)

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a storage section configured to store a machine-learned model that learned, by machine learning, a relationship between a type of a printing medium, an amount of a coloring material on the printing medium per unit area, and an image including a linear image and printed on the printing medium;

a receiving section configured to receive input of selection information including medium-type information regarding a type of the printing medium;

an obtaining section configured to obtain imaging information obtained by capturing the image including the linear image and printed on the printing medium by a printing section that performs printing by using the coloring material;

an estimating section configured to estimate, based on the selection information and the imaging information, by using the machine-learned model, a limit value indicating a maximum value or a minimum value of an amount of the coloring material to be used for printing on the printing medium by the printing section per unit area; and

a creating section configured to create, by using the limit value, a color conversion profile including information regarding mapping between a coordinate value in a color space and an amount of the coloring material.

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

the machine-learned model further learns, by machine learning, a relationship with a type of the color space, and

the selection information includes color space information regarding the type of the color space.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein a value of a color difference ΔE based on the mapping in the color space is 3.0 or less.

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

the machine-learned model further learns, by machine learning, a relationship with a type of the coloring material, and

the selection information includes coloring material-type information regarding the type of the coloring material.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising an additional learning section configured to receive, through a user operation, an addition of a label related to suitability of the limit value and perform additional machine learning of the machine-learned model by using the label.

6. A color conversion profile creation method comprising:

preparing a machine-learned model that learned, by machine learning, a relationship between a type of a printing medium, an amount of a coloring material on the printing medium per unit area, and an image including a linear image and printed on the printing medium;

receiving input of selection information including medium-type information regarding a type of the printing medium and obtaining imaging information obtained by capturing the image including the linear image and printed on the printing medium by a printing section that performs printing by using the coloring material;

estimating, based on the selection information and the imaging information, by using the machine-learned model, a limit value indicating a maximum value or a minimum value of an amount of the coloring material to be used for printing on the printing medium by the printing section per unit area; and

creating, by using the limit value, a color conversion profile including information regarding mapping between a coordinate value in a color space and an amount of the coloring material.

7. A learning apparatus comprising:

an input section configured to receive input of a data set in which are mapped selection information including medium-type information regarding a type of a printing medium, imaging information obtained by capturing an image including a linear image and printed on the printing medium by a printing section that performs printing by using a coloring material, and a limit value indicating a maximum value or a minimum value of an amount of the coloring material to be used for printing on the printing medium by the printing section per unit area; and

a learning processing section configured to generate, based on the data set, a machine-learned model that learned, by machine learning, a relationship between a type of the printing medium, an amount of the coloring material on the printing medium per unit area, and the image including the linear image and printed on the printing medium.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 29, 2020
From: HASEGAWA, JIN; ONO, SATORU
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053341/0432 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-142069 · Aug 1, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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