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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
May. 20, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; G03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358296 ; 358504 ; 358518 ; 358520 ;
Abstract
A color correcting device and a color correcting method in an image forming apparatus such as a color copying machine that rely on, a correction factor in a masking equation which is previously found for each predetermined hue range. It is judged which of a plurality of predetermined hue ranges corresponds to a hue corresponding to input data composed of color data in a plurality of colors. The input data is subjected to color correction using a masking equation using a correction factor corresponding to the judged hue range.