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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
May. 27, 2015
Screen Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Shigenori Arizono, Kyoto, JP;
Kohei Ueda, Kyoto, JP;
SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
As image processing apparatus includes a color converteras a color converting device. The color converterhas, as main functional components for carrying out color conversion of halftone of a spot color, a spot color information acquiring unitfor acquiring spot color information from manuscript data, a spot color Lab acquiring unitfor acquiring L*a*b* values in an L*a*b* color space when the dot percentage of the spot color is 100%, a first calculating unitfor calculating halftone L*a*b* values, using the L*a*b* values at 100% dot percentage of the spot color acquired by the spot color Lab acquiring unitand a dot percentage of the spot color in a printing target portion of the spot color, and a second calculating unitfor converting, using an output ICC profile, the halftone L*a*b* values calculated by the first calculating unitinto CMYK values.