Patent ID: 7729013
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a character-area extracting unit to extract a character area from an image; a character-area specifying unit to specify a character color of a character included in the extracted character area; a highlighted-character extracting unit to extract a highlighted character from the character included in the extracted character area based on the specified character color; a highlight processor to change a display mode of the extracted highlighted character; an area dividing unit to divide the extracted character area into a plurality of column areas; a color holding unit to hold a plurality of first colors and a plurality of second colors in association with each other; a character-color converting unit to convert the specified character color of the extracted highlighted character of a colunm area in the plurality of column areas to a first color of the plurality of first colors obtained from the color holding unit; and a background-color converting unit to convert a background color of a background of the column area of the image to a second color of the plurality of second colors, wherein the second color is identified by the color holding unit as associated with the first color.