Patent ID: 9007666
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for determining whether an image including a first area, a second area, and a third area surrounding the first area and the second area is color, the apparatus comprising: (a) a first unit configured to determine whether each line in the first area and each line in the second area have color pixels that are continuous for a first length in a main-scanning direction without determining whether each line in the third area has color pixels that are continuous for the first length in the main-scanning direction; (b) a second unit configured to determine whether, in the first area, lines that have been determined to have color pixels that are continuous for the first length in the main-scanning direction are adjacent in a sub-scanning direction for a second length; (c) a third unit configured to determine whether, in the second area, lines that have been determined to have color pixels that are continuous for the first length in the main-scanning direction are adjacent in the sub-scanning direction for a third length longer than the second length; (d) a fourth unit configured to determine that the image is color in a case that the lines in the first area are determined to be adjacent in the sub-scanning direction for the second length, or the lines in the second area are determined to be adjacent in the sub-scanning direction for the third length, and to determine that the image is not color in a case that the lines in the first area are determined not to be adjacent in the sub-scanning direction for the second length, and the lines in the second area are determined not to be adjacent in the sub-scanning direction for the third length.