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Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010

Filed:

Apr. 14, 2006
Applicant:

Norimasa Shigeta, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventor:

Norimasa Shigeta, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 3/08 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The apparatus is provided with an area conversion section that creates two or more conversion areas by executing more than one type of adaptive conversion of approximating a gray area in a first color expression area to a gray area in a second color expression area while causing other areas to move following the gray area, and an intermediate area creating section that creates an intermediate area by combining a first conversion area which is closest to the chroma range of the first color expression area and a second conversion area closest to the brightness range of the second color expression area out of the plurality of conversion areas created by the area conversion section.


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