Patent ID: 8942472
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A color judging apparatus comprising: a color judging portion that calculates a color judgment result of a pixel included in image data by using a pixel value of the pixel for judgment, and a shared pixel judging portion that judges a certain pixel as a reference pixel, and another pixel sharing at least one or more pixel values with the reference pixel as a shared pixel, among pixels included in the image data, wherein the color judging portion, when a current pixel that is a pixel subjected to color judgment is judged as the shared pixel by the shared pixel judging portion, regards a color judgment result of the reference pixel as a color judgment result of the current pixel, in the shared pixel judging portion, attribute information about the image data is input, said another pixel is judged as the shared pixel based on the input attribute information and a color judgment area, the color judgment area being set as an area where the color judging portion performs color judgment in the image data.