Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program and printing device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorToshie Imai
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an area specifying unit for specifying a text area including a text with an achromatic color and a background with an achromatic color, in an image to be output; an inversion processing unit for inverting the brightness of achromatic colors only for the specified text area; and an output unit for outputting an image including the text area where the brightness of achromatic colors is inverted. With respect to a gray-level achromatic color configuring a text in the specified text area, the inversion processing unit changes the color to be brighter than the case where the brightness is inverted.
Claims7
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- an area specifying unit for specifying a text area including a text with an achromatic color and a background with an achromatic color, in an image to be output;
- an inversion processing unit for inverting the brightness of achromatic colors only for the specified text area;
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- an output unit for outputting an image including the text area where the brightness of achromatic colors is inverted.
An image processing method, comprising:
- specifying a text area including a text with an achromatic color and a background with an achromatic color, in an image to be output;
- inverting the brightness of achromatic colors only for the specified text area;
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- outputting an image including the text area where the brightness of achromatic colors is inverted.
A printing device, comprising:
- an area specifying unit for specifying a text area including a text with an achromatic color and a background with an achromatic color, in an image to be output;
- an inversion processing unit for inverting the brightness of achromatic colors only for the specified text area;
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- a printing processing unit for printing an image including the text area where the brightness of achromatic colors is inverted, on a printing medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.