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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTaira Matsuoka
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An image processing device, which can be incorporated in an image forming apparatus and perform an image processing method, includes a first image sensor unit including multiple image sensor chips arranged in a line to read an image of a document by converting light incident from the document into electrical signals, a chroma calculation unit to calculate chroma data from an image signal constituted by the electrical signals of the image read by the first image sensor unit, and a chroma adjustment unit to adjust the chroma by using the chroma data calculated by the chroma calculation unit to perform, only on a low-chroma image signal, a conversion process for reducing the chroma to suppress color irregularities occurring at intervals corresponding to widths of the multiple image sensor chips of the first image sensor unit.
An image processing device, comprising:
An image processing method, comprising:
A program product comprising a computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied thereon for causing a computer to perform an image processing method, the method comprising:
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