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Color image processing apparatus for selectively altering image colors

US4873570A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 13, 1987
Grant dateOct 10, 1989
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Expiry dateNov 13, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/622
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A color image processing apparatus such as a color copying machine has a color appointing device for enabling an operator to appoint any desired color involved in an original image, a color range changing device for manually or automatically changing the size of range of the colors which can be regarded as being the same as the predetermined color, a target color appointing device for appointing a color to which the predetermined color is to be converted, and a color image forming device such as a laser beam printer for forming a color image with the predetermined color and colors in the color range converted into the target color.

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