IP Library Granted Patent US 7,844,111
Granted Patent B2
US 7,844,111 · App. 12/389,126 · Granted Nov 30, 2010

Image processing method, recording medium with recorded image processing program and image processing apparatus

Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,844,111
App. No.
12/389,126
Granted
Nov 30, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image processing method for carrying out predetermined correction processing with respect to one or more items regarding the quality of color images and the image processing method comprises a judgment step for judging the necessity/nonnecessity of correction with respect to each of the above-mentioned items and a correction processing step for carrying out the predetermined correction processing with respect to the item judged as required to be corrected at the above-mentioned judgment step.

Claims (25)

1. A judging method of a color image covered with a specific color, comprising:

converting color components R, G and B of an image data of a color image into hue data, lightness data and saturation data;

calculating histograms of the hue data, the lightness data and the saturation data;

calculating, based on an entirety of the hue data, a first data concentration of the hue data in a first predetermined range;

calculating, based on the entirety of the hue data, a second data concentration of the hue data in a second predetermined range which is different from the first predetermined range; and

judging that the color image is covered with a specific color based on the first data concentration and the second data concentration.

2. A judging method of the color image covered with a specific color according to claim 1 , wherein the second predetermined range is wider than the first predetermined range.

3. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

a memory which stores an image data of a color image;

a judge section which judges whether correction of the color image based on the color image covered with a specific color;

wherein the judge section comprises;

a unit for converting color components R, G and B of an image data into hue data, lightness data and saturation data;

a unit for calculating histograms of the hue data, the lightness data and the saturation data;

a unit for calculating, based on an entirety of the hue data, a first data concentration of the hue data in a first predetermined range;

a unit for calculating, based on the entirety of the hue data, a second data concentration of the hue data in a second predetermined range which is different from the first predetermined range; and

a unit for judging that the color image is covered with a specific color based on the first data concentration and the second data concentration.

4. An image processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the second predetermined range is wider than the first predetermined range.

5. A computer readable medium with a recorded program, the program being executed and performing:

converting color components R, G and B of an image data of a color image into hue data, lightness data and saturation data;

calculating histograms of the hue data, the lightness data and the saturation data;

calculating, based on an entirety of the hue data, a first data concentration of the hue data in a first predetermined range;

calculating, based on the entirety of the hue data, a second data concentration of the hue data in a second predetermined range which is different from the first predetermined range; and

judging that the color image is covered with a specific color based on the first data concentration and the second data concentration.

6. A computer readable medium with a recorded program according to claim 5 , the program being executed and performing:

wherein the second predetermined range is wider than the first predetermined range.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Aug 22, 2014
From: MINOLTA CO., LTD.
To: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
Reel/Frame 033593/0312 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 22, 2014
From: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
To: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Reel/Frame 033596/0216 →
Priority Claims (1)
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