Patent ID: 7209262

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for converting an input image signal into a control signal including a plurality of output color factors of an image forming apparatus, said image processing apparatus comprising: an object determining part determining a type and attributes of a drawing object from the input image signal; a background color information extracting part extracting background color information corresponding to a determination result of the object determining part from the input image signal; and a color converting part conducting a color conversion with respect to the input image signal based on the type and attributes of the drawing object and the background color information; and wherein the color converting part includes: a color conversion table storing part storing a plurality of color conversion tables; a selecting part referring to the type and attributes of the drawing object and the background color information and selecting one color conversion table from the plurality of the color conversion tables; and a compensation calculating part conducting a compensation calculation with respect to the image data based on the color conversion table selected by the selecting part.