Patent ID: 8144982

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: an inputting portion that inputs image data of a color image, the image data being in a form of combinations of values for a plurality of base colors, the color image including a first specific color and a second specific color; a converting portion that converts the image data inputted by the inputting portion to values of lightness, chroma, and hue; an adjusting portion that adjusts the values of lightness, chroma, and hue converted by the converting portion, the adjusting portion comprising: a change-amount setting portion that sets an amount of change for each of lightness, chroma, and hue to a corresponding one of parameters specified by a user; a weighting-curve storing portion that stores weighting curves for each of lightness, chroma, and hue, the weighting curve for lightness including a first section in which a weighting factor increases monotonically from a value less than one to one, a second section defined at a value indicating the second specific color in which the weighting factor is one, a third section in which the weighting factor decreases monotonically from one to a predetermined value greater than zero and less than one, a fourth section defined at a value indicating the first specific color in which the weighting factor is the predetermined value, and a fifth section in which the weighting factor decreases monotonically from the predetermined value to a value less than the predetermined value, wherein the first section, the second section, the third section, the fourth section, and the fifth section are sequentially continuous, the weighting curve for each of chroma and hue including a first section in which the weighting factor increases monotonically from zero to one, a second section defined at a value indicating either the first specific color or the second specific color in which the weighting factor is one, a third section in which the weighting factor decreases monotonically from one to zero, and a fourth section in which the weighting factor is zero; a weighting-factor determining portion that determines, based on the weighting curves, weighting factors for the values of lightness, chroma, and hue converted by the converting portion; a specific-color-index determining portion that determines a specific color index by multiplying the weighting factors by each other; and an adjustment-amount determining portion that determines an adjustment amount by multiplying, by the specific color index, the amount of change set by the change-amount setting portion, and that determines adjusted values of lightness, chroma, and hue based on the adjustment amount; and an adjusted-color-image obtaining portion that obtains an adjusted color image based on the adjusted values of lightness, chroma, and hue determined by the adjusting portion.