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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2005
Applicant:
Toshiyuki Hattori, Nagano-ken, JP;
Inventor:
Toshiyuki Hattori, Nagano-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/04 (2006.01); G03F 3/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A scan target is scanned to acquire scan data that includes tone values for each color component in a plurality of pixels; there are acquired scan profiles indicating association relationships between the aforementioned tone values and color values, which profiles specify a said association relationship for each of a plurality of scan locations in the aforementioned image scanning program code; and for scan data acquired by means of the aforementioned image scanning step, the aforementioned tone values are converted to color values with reference to the scan profile corresponding to each scan location.