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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2003
Applicant:
Joji Oki, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Joji Oki, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/60 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An information processing apparatus accurately and automatically determines whether a page to be printed out or rendered is a color page or a monochrome page. In order to efficiently output the page, color/monochrome determination is performed to the page by examining all the pixels forming a bitmap image based on the bitmap image and an attribute bitmap image.