Patent ID: 7554556

Claim:
A color image processing device, comprising: means for inputting color image data including data of a plurality of color components; a pre-correcting means which includes a pre-correction circuit that carries out a pre-correction before a prescribed computation processing to reverse a highest-order bit of a pixel value on data of a color component input from the means for inputting and which selectively outputs the data of the color component input from the means for inputting or the data of the color component pre-corrected by the pre-correction circuit according to the color component; a computation processing means for carrying out the prescribed computation processing on the data of the color component output by the pre-correcting means and outputting the data of the color component carried out with the prescribed computation processing; and a post-correcting means which includes a post-correction circuit that carries out a post-correction after the pre-correction to reverse a highest-order bit of a pixel value on the data of the color component output by the computation processing means after the pre-correction and which selectively outputs to a prescribed output destination according to the color component, the data of the color component output by the computation processing means after the pre-correction or the data of the color component post-corrected by the post-correction circuit after the pre-correction, wherein the prescribed computation processing carried out by the computation processing means is a spatial filtering processing which calculates a pixel value by carrying out a computation of convolution by using a plurality of pixel values and prescribed filtering coefficients.