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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2012
Applicant:
Yuuki Sagimori, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Yuuki Sagimori, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G03F 3/08 (2006.01); H04N 1/46 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/5041 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0164 (2013.01); H04N 1/58 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a character identifying unit configured to identify character data of black from color image data; a character data generating unit configured to add character data of a color other than black to the character data of black as additional character data to generate combined character data; and a character data correcting unit configured to perform thinning process of making a line of a character of the additional character data thinner than a line of the character data of black.