Patent ID: 8041109

Claim:
A color processing apparatus comprising: a creating unit that creates at least one CIE color conversion table to be used to convert a CIE color to a device color value; a storing unit that stores therein the CIE color conversion table created by the creating unit; a controlling unit that, when a CIE color is specified, decides an appropriate CIE color conversion table for specified CIE color, checks if the appropriate CIE color conversion table is present in the storage unit, and if the appropriate CIE color conversion table is present in the storage unit, selects that CIE color conversion table as a target CIE color conversion table, and if the appropriate CIE color conversion table is not present in the storage unit, causes the creating unit to create a CIE color conversion table that is appropriate for the specified CIE color as a target CIE color conversion table, and stores the target CIE color conversion table in the storage unit; and a converting unit that converts the specified CIE color to a device color value by using the target CIE color conversion table, wherein the controlling unit detects an embedded memory capacity, calculates an appropriate number of samples for the memory capacity, and causes the creating unit to create the target CIE color conversion table corresponding to the number of samples.