IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

• Main Author: ODA MINORU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 01.06.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus that enables a user to check the color of an image using a developer containing a luminous toner before image formation.SOLUTION: An image processing apparatus of the present invention comprises image processing means that converts original image data formed as an image on a medium by using a normal color developer and a luminous color developer that emits light upon irradiation with predetermined light into post-conversion image data represented by the color of a predetermined color space in accordance with the amount of the normal color developer and luminous color developer, and performs an output based on the post-conversion image data.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】 発光トナーを含む現像剤を用いた画像の色を画像形成前にユーザに確認させることができる画像処理装置を提供する。【解決手段】 本発明の画像処理装置は、通常色の現像剤と、所定の光を照射すると発光する発光色の現像剤とを用いて媒体に画像形成する原画像データを、通常色の現像剤と発光色の現像剤との量に応じた所定の色空間の色で表現される変換後画像データに変換し、前記変換後画像データに基づく出力を行う画像処理手段を有することを特徴とする。【選択図】 図１