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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2008
Toshitsugu Yamamoto, Takatsuki, JP;
Toshitsugu Yamamoto, Takatsuki, JP;
Abstract
In image processing that expresses a small region with a predetermined number of representative colors, the image processing being carried out for each of small regions, with respect to the content of one small region, based on the extent of variation in that small region of each of the values of a plurality of color variables that express the color of each pixel, a target color variable is selected (#), among values from the maximum value to the minimum value of the target color variable in that small region, a value of the target color variable for which the number of pixels is '0' is obtained as a reference value, and the pixels in that small region are grouped based on the reference value (#), and a representative color of each group is obtained (#).