Konica Corporation

Shouichi Nomura

Tsuyoshi Haraguchi

Yoshiaki Yamanaka

Toru Kawabe

Tuyosi Hattori

An image processing apparatus is provided with an optical system to for irradiating light to an image document, for detecting light transmitting through the image document or light reflected from the image document and for converting the light into electric signals, thereby obtaining a first image information, the optical system having an amount of flare; a flare amount memory for memorizing an amount of flare of the optical system; a flare component calculator for obtaining a flare component contained in the first image information on the basis of the first image information and the flare amount of the optical system; and a controller for determining on the basis of the flare component a copy condition on which the image document is copied.

Image processing method and image processing apparatus

A method and apparatus for processing image information coming from various types of image inputting media yields an image processor for processing image information that consolidates image size irrespective of the type of image inputting medium. The apparatus is provided with a plurality of image inputting media, each of which inputs image information as a first image information having a fixed image size. An image size converter converts the fixed image size to a predetermined image size which is a constant image size independent of both the fixed image size and the type of image inputting medium that inputs the first image information. The conversion generates a second image information and a data generator generates conditional data for processing the second image information. An image processor processes the second image information using predetermined image processing procedures, based on the conditional data, to generate a third image information.

Image processing method and apparatus

A method of processing an image includes steps of: obtaining data concerning the brightness of an original image; dividing the data concerning the brightness into a plurality of groups for each brightness domain on the basis of the histogram of the data concerning the brightness; preparing correction information for correcting the data concerning the brightness for each of the plurality of groups, and executing image processing to the original image on the basis of the correction information.

Image processing apparatus

An image reproducing method includes a step of obtaining a print reproducing an object based on image information obtained by photographing the object, wherein logarithm E of object brightness satisfies formula (1) and formula (2) is effected with the logarithm E,

Image reproducing method

In an image recording apparatus provided with an image processor and an image recorder, the image processor has a memory for memorizing a reference converting condition for each color component, a correction value obtaining section for obtaining correction values for the image recording means for each color component, a converting condition calculating section for calculating an output converting condition for each color component based on both of the reference converting conditions and the correction values, and a converting section for converting the input image data into the output image data based on the output converting condition.

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