Patent ID: 6344908
Filing Date: 2002-02-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image processing method for executing, in order to form a color image with color image formation means, a color process on a color image object to generate output color image data including black component data and other color component data, the method having a mode for generating the output color image data, when one color image data representing the color image object is an achromatic color, the other component data in the output color image data are substantially zero-valued, and it is judged in the mode whether or not one color image data is the achromatic color for each pixel, the method comprising the steps of:a setting step of setting, based on an instruction from a user, whether or not the mode is to be executed for each of a plurality of different types of color image objects; a discriminating step of discriminating the type of input color image object; and a color processing step of executing a color process on color image data of the input color image object, wherein the color processing step controls whether or not the mode is to be executed to the color image data, on the basis of an attribute of the discriminated input color image object and the setting in the setting step.