Patent ID: 9088753
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire image data by optically reading a document; a frequency distribution acquisition unit configured to acquire a first frequency distribution of luminances from the image data acquired by the image data acquisition unit; a generation unit configured to generate a second frequency distribution of luminances of a background of the document, by using a maximum frequency of the first frequency distribution acquired by the frequency distribution acquisition unit as a maximum frequency of the second frequency distribution of luminances of the background of the document; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a degree of deviation of the second frequency distribution from the first frequency distribution; a correction unit configured to correct the second frequency distribution based on the information indicating the degree of deviation acquired by the acquisition unit; and an image processing unit configured to process the image data using the corrected second frequency distribution.