Patent ID: 9578208
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G03G,H04N

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus structured to read a first image consisting of user content and a second image consisting of patches from a medium in a first reading condition and a second reading condition in which flare less occurs than in the first reading condition, said image processing apparatus comprising: a reflectance assignment unit structured to assign a reflectance to the first image in accordance with a distance between the first image and the second image which are read in the second reading condition; a color information arithmetic unit structured to obtain color information about the first image which is read in the second reading condition; a flare component derivation unit structured to derive a flare component of the second image based on the reflectance assigned by the reflectance assignment unit and the color information obtained by the color information arithmetic unit; and a flare component removing unit structured to remove a flare component of the second image which is read in the first reading condition, based on the second image which is read in the first reading condition and the flare component of the second image which is derived by the flare component derivation unit.