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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 13, 2018
Applicant:

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroshi Sekine, Ebina, JP;

Hiroyuki Kawano, Ebina, JP;

Takanobu Otsubo, Ebina, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/00 (2005.12); H04N 1/387 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/3871 (2012.12);
Abstract

There is provided an image processing apparatus where in an additional image storage unita color additional image is stored into a color image storage unitand a black/white additional image is stored into a black/white image storage unitA color judging unitjudges as to whether an input image corresponds to a color image, or a black/white image every page thereof. Based upon the judgment result of the color judging unitan image synthesizing unitadds the color additional image stored in the color image storage unitto the input image when the input image is the color image, and adds the black/white additional image stored in the black/white image storage unitin the input image when the input image is the black/white image. Then, the image synthesizing unitoutputs the resulting image synthesized with the additional image. When the input image is the black/white image, the black/white additional image is added to this input image charge amount for the black/white image can be determined.


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