Patent ID: 11863726
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. The printing device according to claim 4,
wherein, after performing searching, the controller is configured to perform:
obtaining, as the approximate color, at least one of:
a color of the pixel located around the designated pixel in the image; and
a color of a contiguous pixel contiguous with the designated pixel via the pixel having the color difference less than the particular threshold from the designated pixel in the image, the color difference of the color of the contiguous pixel from the designated pixel being less than the particular threshold;

determining, in the adding, whether the designated color and the approximate color are different from a colors of the first patch group; and
adding, in the adding, among the designated color and the approximate color, a specific color, the specific color being different from the color of the first patch group to the color list.