Patent ID: 8659794
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: a dense-light color decomposition unit that decomposes n colors out of elementary color components of m colors, which is in first print image data where a color value is represented by a combination of the elementary color components of m colors in a color space of a printer, into a dense color component and a light color component respectively, so as to generate second print image data represented by color values of (m+n) color components; a converter unit that converts the color value represented by the combination of the elementary color components of m colors in the color space of the printer into a color value represented by a combination of elementary color components of p colors in a color space of a display, and supplies the color value as a conversion result to the display; and a supplying unit that extracts, from the first and/or the second print image data, a color component selected as a target of composite display from among the color components of (m+n) colors and supplies the extracted color component to the converter unit, wherein if only the light color component corresponding to the elementary color component decomposed is selected as the target of the composite display, the supplying unit, in accordance with at least one of the elementary color component of the first print image data, the dense color component and the light color component corresponding to the elementary color component of the second print image data, determines a value of the elementary color component that, with the elementary color component printed on the printer, comes to be equal in density to the value of the light color component, and supplies the determined value to the converter unit, wherein m is an integer equal to or larger than 1, and n is an integer equal to or larger than 1 and equal to or smaller than m, and p is an integer equal to or larger than 1.