Patent ID: 9400948
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit, including a network interface, configured to receive indexed color image data including a color lookup table defining a first color value and a second color value associated respectively with a first reference number and a second reference number, and including a binary bitmap image including pixels, each of the pixels having either one of the first and second reference numbers represented by one bit as a pixel value; and a processing unit, including at least a processor, configured to generate bitmap image data including a color value per pixel by referring to the color lookup table with respect to reference numbers of pixels of the received indexed color image data pixel by pixel, wherein, if a composition of a combination of the color values defined by the color lookup table included in the received image data is a specific composition, the processing unit is configured to generate bitmap image data based on the received indexed color image data according to a method which is based on the composition of the combination and skips the referring.