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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2008
Jeong-hwan Cho, Suwon-si, KR;
Ki-min Kang, Seongnam-si, KR;
Jeong-hwan Cho, Suwon-si, KR;
Ki-min Kang, Seongnam-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus and an image forming method thereof are provided. An image forming apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present general inventive concept comprises a decoder to decode a compressed image to convert the compressed image into image data, a pure black determining unit to determine whether the image data is pure black by using information of the converted image data, a section classifying unit to classify the image data into a text section and an image section by using a result of the pure black determination, and a color coordinate converter to perform color coordinate conversion on the image section of the classified sections. Therefore, it is possible to improve readability of black text.