Color converting apparatus and a color converting method
US9443175B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 27, 2015 |
| Grant date | Sep 13, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 27, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N1/6016
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
As image processing apparatus includes a color converter 20 as a color converting device. The color converter 20 has, as main functional components for carrying out color conversion of halftone of a spot color, a spot color information acquiring unit 21 for acquiring spot color information from manuscript data, a spot color Lab acquiring unit 22 for 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 unit 23 for 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 unit 22 and a dot percentage of the spot color in a printing target portion of the spot color, and a second calculating unit 24 for converting, using an output ICC profile, the halftone L*a*b* values calculated by the first calculating unit 23 into CMYK values.
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