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

Claim 6:
7. The printing device according to claim 4,
wherein, after performing searching, the controller is configured to perform:
obtaining, as an 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 is in the image, the color difference of the color of the contiguous pixel from the designated pixel being less than the particular threshold; and

when obtaining a plurality of the approximate colors in the obtaining, adding, in the adding, among pixels corresponding to the plurality of the approximate colors, the approximate color of a pixel closer to the designated pixel to the color list in priority.