IP Library Granted Patent US 7,515,749
Granted Patent B2
US 7,515,749 · App. 11/727,560 · Granted Apr 7, 2009

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 7,515,749
App. No.
11/727,560
Granted
Apr 7, 2009
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 (12)

1. A judging method of contrast of an image data, comprising:

calculating histograms of R, G and B data;

calculating, for each histogram, a proportion of a prescribed range of the histogram to the whole range of the histogram, the prescribed range being a range in which a frequency at a level of the histogram is below a prescribed value; and

judging a contrast of the image data based on the calculated proportion wherein the judging method is executed by a computer or a processor.

2. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

a processor for calculating histograms of R, G and B data;

a processor for calculating, for each histogram, a proportion of a prescribed range of the histogram to the whole range of the histogram, the prescribed range being a range in which a frequency at a level of the histogram is below a prescribed value; and

a processor for judging a contrast of the image data based on the calculated proportion.

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

calculating histograms of R, G and B data;

calculating, for each histogram, a proportion of a prescribed range of the histogram to the whole range of the histogram, the prescribed range being a range in which a frequency at a level of the histogram is below a prescribed value; and

judging a contrast of the image data based on the calculated proportion.

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)
JP 10-102756 · Apr 14, 1998 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 0929135800 · Apr 14, 1999
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