Patent ID: 11968346
Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A color correction apparatus comprising:
a color sensor that obtains first color information of a first image formed by a first color formed on a recording medium and second color information of a second image formed by a second color superimposed on the first color formed on the recording medium;
a controller that finds a correction value for the second color by estimating color information of the second color based on the first color information and the second color information, the color information of the second color being varied due to an influence in correcting the first color information to a first target value of the first color, and, a storage unit that stores an influence coefficient used to calculate the estimation value of the second color, wherein
the controller calculates the estimation value of the second color using the influence coefficient.