IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: MURAKAMI YOSHINORI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 10.11.2023
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

To provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that appropriately convert a monochrome image including handwritten characters into a color image.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 1 comprises: an input unit that receives input of an image based on a document; a control unit; and a character image creation unit having an image conversion unit (gray scale (brightness) conversion unit) that performs predetermined conversion of the image. The control unit assigns an output color to handwritten characters, of characters included in the image, by a first method based on the image, assigns the output color to characters other than the handwritten characters by a second method based on the image obtained through the predetermined conversion performed by the image conversion unit, and outputs the image.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】手書き文字が含まれるモノクロ画像を適切にカラー画像にする画像処理装置、画像処理方法及びプログラムを提供する。【解決手段】画像形成装置１において、原稿に基づいた画像を入力する入力部と、制御部と、画像に所定の変換を行う画像変換部（グレースケール（輝度）変換部）を有する文字画像生成部と、を備える。制御部は、画像に含まれる文字のうち、手書き文字に対しては、画像に基づいて第１の方法により出力色を割り当て、手書き文字以外の文字に対しては、画像変換部により所定の変換をした画像に基づいて第２の方法により出力色を割り当てて、画像を出力させる。【選択図】図２