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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
May. 24, 2005
Takahiro Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Norimasa Shigeta, Kanagawa, JP;
Shuji Ono, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an output apparatus capable of outputting an image of high quality even if unreproducible colors are converted into reproducible colors among colors included in an image. The output apparatus, which converts unreproducible colors into reproducible colors among colors included in an image to output the image, includes a color unreproducible region extracting unit operable to extract a color unreproducible region that is a region including a color capable of not being reproduced by the output apparatus among the colors included in the image, a first color converting unit operable to convert a color of the color unreproducible region into a color capable of being reproduced by the output apparatus, and a second color converting unit operable to convert colors of regions besides the color unreproducible region based on positional relationship in the image between the color unreproducible region and the regions besides the color unreproducible region.