Patent ID: 8908963
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus for applying to a color image a pattern corresponding to a color of the color image, the apparatus comprising: a pattern determination section that determines a hatch pattern having a foreground and a background each of which serves as a pattern in accordance with a color of a pixel in the color image; a color value determination section that determines a color value of a color material to be assigned to each of the foreground and the background in the determined hatch pattern in accordance with the color of the pixel in the color image; and an image processing section that replaces the color of the pixel in the color image with a color value of a color material of a corresponding pixel in the determined hatch pattern, wherein the color values of the color materials of the foreground and the background in the hatch pattern are different, and the color value determination section determines the color value of the color material per unit area in the hatch pattern determined by the pattern determination section such that a chromatic value as an attribute of the color of the corresponding pixel in the color image is maintained, wherein the pattern determination section determines an adhesion density of the color material such that the adhesion densities of the color materials of the foreground and the background in the hatch pattern are different.