Patent ID: 7697177
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: color conversion means for convening individual color components of input image data into components of a plurality of coloring materials for generating an image, and for outputting output image data represented for each of the components of the plurality of coloring materials; component coloring material used amount calculating means for calculating, for each of pixels of the output image data, amounts of component coloring materials to be used, which are a sum total of amounts of each of the components of the plurality of coloring materials to be used, which are subjected to the conversion; maximum component coloring material amount detecting means for detecting an amount of component coloring materials at the pixel of said pixels, where a maximum value of the amounts of component coloring materials is used; and adjusting means for calculating a minimum value of the amounts of component coloring materials, which reproduces a same glossiness as the amount of component coloring materials detected by the maximum component coloring material amount detecting means reproduces referencing a glossiness table which represents relationships between the amounts of component coloring materials to be used and glossiness in the case where an image of the input image data is generated and for adjusting the amount to be used for each component of the plurality of coloring materials such that the amounts of component coloring materials to be used become the minimum.