Patent ID: 7692816
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus for processing image data comprising: an image output unit that includes a delivering unit for delivering the image data and a printing unit for printing the image data, the image output unit outputting the image data; an image-data acquiring unit that acquires first image data in a first color space that is an RGB space; an image storing unit that stores therein the first image data; an image-data converting unit that converts, at the time of outputting the image data, the first image data present in the image storing unit into second image data in a second color space that is a CMYK space corresponding to the image output unit; a mode setting unit that accepts an output mode for image processing in the image output unit, the output mode being a color mode or a monochrome mode, and an application-mode setting unit that accepts an application mode that is a delivering mode or a printing mode, wherein the image-data converting unit includes the image data converting unit determines that the output mode is the color mode when the application mode is the delivering mode, and determines that the output mode is the monochrome mode when the application mode is the printing mode.