Patent ID: 7646510
Filing Date: 2010-01-12
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image scanner printer that reads an original image and that prints out the original image, comprising: a red-eye detection unit that detects red-eye that is included in an image corresponding to a predetermined number of lines of RGB image data when the original image is read; a YCC image storage processing unit that converts the predetermined number of lines of the RGB image data into YCC image data and stores all the data as one unit JPEG image; a YCC/RGB conversion unit that converts the YCC image data into RGB image data in units of a line or in units of a predetermined number of lines; a red-eye correction unit that executes red-eye correction on the RGB image data when an image corresponding to the converted RGB image data includes a red-eye area that is stored in a red-eye table; and a print data creating unit that, among the RGB image data, for RGB image data on which the red-eye correction has been performed, creates print data from the RGB image data on which the red-eye correction has been performed, when the print data are created from the RGB image data.