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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2017
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Motohiro Mitamura, Tokyo, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing device including a hue acquiring unit and a lightness acquiring unit that respectively acquire hue information and lightness information of each pixel from an original color image, a color-component selecting unit that selects a color component associated with a hue range, of a plurality of hue ranges, to which the hue information of each pixel belongs as a conversion-target color component of the pixel, and a color-converted-image generating unit that generates a color-converted image in which a gradation value based on the lightness information acquired by the lightness acquiring unit is applied to the conversion-target color component selected by the color-component selecting unit from the color components of the pixels.