Patent ID: 8031203

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a first conversion unit that converts, on the basis of an input device profile corresponding to characteristics of an input device, input data into first device-independent data expressed by a color space that is independent of an apparatus; a storage unit in which there are stored, on the basis of observation conditions representing environments in which the input data and output data outputted on the basis of the input data are observed, the characteristics of the input device and characteristics of an output device, and in correspondence with a plurality of device characteristics that are dependent on apparatuses, a plurality of conversion profiles for converting using a color appearance model such that color appearances of the input data and the output data become the same in the color space that is independent of the apparatus; a selection unit that selects, from the plurality of conversion profiles stored in the storage unit, a conversion profile corresponding to the characteristics of the input device, the characteristics of the output device, the observation condition of the input data and the observation condition of the output data; a second conversion unit that converts, on the basis of the conversion profile selected by the selection unit, the first device-independent data converted by the first conversion unit into second device-independent data; and a third conversion unit that converts the second device-independent data converted by the second conversion unit into the output data on the basis of an output device profile corresponding to the characteristics of the output device.