Patent ID: 8830525
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A changed-color-arrangement image creating apparatus comprising: a difficult-to-recognize color arrangement storage unit configured to store a difficult-to-recognize color arrangement, wherein the difficult-to-recognize color arrangement is difficult to visually recognize; an object extracting unit configured to extract objects from an original image; a difficult-to-recognize object detecting unit configured to detect, from among the extracted objects, a difficult-to-recognize object that has the difficult-to-recognize color arrangement stored in the difficult-to-recognize color arrangement storage unit as a color arrangement to a color of a periphery of the difficult-to-recognize object; a representative color obtaining unit configured to obtain a representative color of the difficult-to-recognize object detected by the difficult-to-recognize object detecting unit; a color arrangement changing unit configured to change a color arrangement of the original image by assigning, to at least a partial area of the difficult-to-recognize object detected by the difficult-to-recognize object detecting unit, a color by which the color arrangement to the color of the periphery of the difficult-to-recognize object is changed from the difficult-to-recognize color arrangement stored in the difficult-to-recognize color arrangement storage unit; a printing device configured to print, on a recording medium, a changed image obtained as a result of the color arrangement being changed by the color arrangement changing unit; and a changed image printing unit configured to command the printing device to print the changed image; wherein the color arrangement changing unit is configured to embed, in the partial area as dots, information about the representative color obtained by the representative color obtaining unit.