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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1996
Nobuo Ohnuma, Yokohama, JP;
Takatoshi Ohta, Yokohama, JP;
Yuji Akiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Yoko Hirosugi, Fujisawa, JP;
Takahiro Moro, Wako, JP;
Masahiro Nagatani, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuyoshi Sumiuchi, Machida, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus having a first black generating unit for generating a black component from input image data of signals representative of a plurality of color components, a color correcting unit for correcting the colors of the signals representative of the plurality of color components and a signal representative of the black component and outputting the color corrected signals representative of the plurality of color components, and a second black generating unit for generating a signal representative of a black component from the color corrected signals.