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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2009
Yoshiaki Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshiaki Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing method comprises: a step of acquiring recording characteristic information of the recording elements; a step of obtaining inconsistent density correction information from the recording characteristic information acquired in the characteristic information acquiring step; a step of obtaining inconsistency corrected image data from the inconsistent density correction information and data of the input image; a step of generating inconsistency correction unfit image position information by detecting an inconsistency correction unfit image from data of the input image; a step of obtaining image data having an N number of tones from the inconsistency corrected image data; a step of judging whether non-correctable conditions arise according to the inconsistent density correction information and the inconsistency correction unfit image position information; and a step of alerting a user to an image anomaly according to judgment results given in the image anomaly judgment processing step.