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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 07, 2017
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Naoya Takesue, Tokyo, JP;

Toshiyuki Dobashi, Tokyo, JP;

Tomokazu Yanai, Yokohama, JP;

Hisashi Ishikawa, Urayasu, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/60 (2006.01); G01J 3/46 (2006.01); G01J 3/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/603 (2013.01); G01J 3/462 (2013.01); G01J 3/524 (2013.01); H04N 1/6002 (2013.01); H04N 1/605 (2013.01); H04N 1/6097 (2013.01);
Abstract

A color conversion processing apparatus that converts a signal value of an input image into an output value of an actual color material used in an image forming apparatus, and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a printing setting for the input image; and a conversion unit configured to convert the signal value of the input image into the output value of the actual color material in accordance with the acquired printing setting, and the conversion unit performs the conversion while maintaining a relationship between the signal value of the input image and output values of a virtual color material, the number of virtual color materials is smaller than the number of actual color materials and the respective virtual color materials have respective densities corresponding to respective wavelength bands obtained by dividing a wavelength range reproduced by the actual color materials being output into a plurality of wavelength bands, the output values of the plurality of virtual color materials are determined based on the respective densities corresponding to the respective wavelength bands, and the relationship is a relationship that increases monotonically and whose secondary differential does not become negative.


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