Patent ID: 7940984
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a determining unit that extracts similar-characteristic areas in image data that are areas that contain image data with substantially similar characteristics, and determines a type of the characteristics of image data of each of the similar-characteristic areas; a first correcting unit that corrects a characteristic of image data in each of the similar-characteristic areas to a predetermined data characteristic according to the type of the characteristics of image data of that similar-characteristic area thereby obtaining characteristics-corrected image data; a storage unit that stores the characteristics-corrected image data and associated area information, the area information representing the extracted similar-characteristic area that corresponds to each of the characteristics-corrected image data; a second correcting unit that corrects a characteristic of the characteristics-corrected image data stored in the storage unit based on the area information to a destination-specific characteristic that corresponds to a destination to which image data is to be output, wherein if the characteristics-corrected image data corresponds to dot images, the second correcting unit does not correct the characteristic of the characteristics-corrected image data; and an output unit that outputs the image data having the destination-specific characteristic to the destination.