Patent ID: 9342028
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: G03G,G06K,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus connected to a printing device that is equipped with a colored color toner and a colorless clear toner and forms an image on a recording medium based on color plane data to attach the color toner and clear toner plane data to attach the clear toner, the information processing apparatus comprising: a total amount control unit that corrects the color plane data and the clear toner plane data to apply a total amount controlling process by which a sum of density values of all pixels composing the color plane data and the clear toner plane data becomes not larger than a certain value; a determining unit that determines whether the total amount controlling process is applied to the clear toner plane data; a difference calculating unit that calculates a difference between the density value of a pixel of the clear toner plane data and the density value of the pixel of the clear toner plane data to which the total amount controlling process is applied, for each pixel, when the total amount controlling process is applied to the clear toner plane data; an extracting unit that extracts a region composed of a pixel in which the difference calculated by the difference calculating unit exists; and an output unit that outputs the region where the difference exists.