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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2007
Satoshi Ohkawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Kawamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyuki Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Togami, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Ohkawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Kawamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyuki Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Togami, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A determining unit extracts similar-characteristic areas in image data and determines a type of the characteristics of image data of each of the similar-characteristic areas, a first correcting unit corrects a characteristic of image data in each of the similar-characteristic areas to a predetermined data characteristic according to the type of the characteristics of image data of that similar-characteristic area thereby obtaining characteristics-corrected image data, a storage unit stores therein the image data and the characteristics-corrected image data, a second correcting unit corrects a characteristic of the image data and the characteristics-corrected image data stored in the storage unit to a destination-specific characteristic that corresponds to a destination to which image data is to be output, and an output unit outputs the image data having the destination-specific characteristic to the destination.