Patent ID: 8437039

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a storage unit that stores a profile for transforming image data from one color space to another color space, and a lookup table for transforming coordinate values in a color space of the image data to ink volumes in an ink color space rendered by plural different types of ink; a profile transformation unit that transforms input reference image data containing a plurality of colors to transformed reference image data based on said profile; and an ink information generating unit that transforms the transformed reference image data to ink volume information based on the lookup table, and based on said ink volume information and the input reference image data, generates ink information correlating said ink volumes with the colors contained in the input reference image data; wherein the ink information generating unit correlates ink volume information to the colors contained in the input reference image data based on the color of each area in the input reference image data, the correlation between areas in the reference image data and areas in the transformed reference image data, and the correlation between the areas in the transformed reference image data and the ink volumes.