Color-converting an outline or other portion, with or without spreading of the portion

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• outline extracting means for extracting an outline of an input image;
• color designating means for manually designating a converting-color to be applied to the outline extracted by said outline extracting means;
• color converting means for converting the color of the outline according to the converting-color designated by said designating means;
• and
• color discriminating means for discriminating a predetermined color on the input image,
• wherein said color converting means converts a color according to an output from said color discriminating means and an output from said outline extracting means, and
• wherein said color converting means converts a color at a portion other than said predetermined-color portion, when said color discriminating means has detected said predetermined color.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• outline extracting means for extracting an outline of an input image;
• color designating means for manually designating a converting-color to be applied to the outline extracted by said outline extracting means;
• color converting means for converting the color of the outline according to the converting-color designated by said designating means;
• and
• color discriminating means for discriminating a predetermined color on the input image,
• wherein said color converting means converts a color according to an output from said color discriminating means and an output from said outline extracting means, and
• wherein said color converting means converts a color at a portion other than an outline portion when said outline extracting means extracts an outline of said input image.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• outline extracting means for extracting an outline of an input image;
• color designating means for manually designating a converting-color to be applied to the outline extracted by said outline extracting means;
• color converting means for converting the color of the outline according to the converting-color designated by said designating means;
• and
• color discriminating means for discriminating a predetermined color on the input image,
• wherein said color converting means converts a color according to an output from said color discriminating means and an output from said outline extracting means;
• and
• block-region processing means for allowing said color converting means to convert a color at an objective pixel when at least one pixel of a block region having a plurality of pixels including the objective pixel must be color converted in the input image.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• outline extracting means for extracting an outline of an input image;
• color designating means for manually designating a converting-color to be applied to the outline extracted by said outline extracting means;
• and
• color converting means for converting the color of the outline according to the converting-color designated by said designating means, wherein said color converting means does not output image data at a portion other than said outline which has been color-converted.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• binarizing means for binarizing input image data;
• area spreading means for spreading an area represented by said image data binarized by said binarizing means;
• and
• coloring means for coloring the spread area made by said area spreading means with a predetermined color.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• outline extracting means for extracting an outline of an input image;
• color designating means for manually designating a converting-color to be applied to the outline extracted by said outline extracting means;
• color converting means for converting the color of the outline according to the converting-color designated by said designating means;
• and
• color discriminating means for discriminating a predetermined color on the input image,
• wherein said color converting means converts a color according to an output from said color discriminating means and an output from said outline extracting means,
• wherein said color converting means converts a color at outline portion when said outline extracting means extracts an outline of said input image, and
• wherein said color converting means outputs image data after changing a width of at least a part of said outline portion.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• input means for reading an original image and converting the image to image data;
• outline extracting means for extracting an outline portion from the image data inputted by said input means;
• color designating means for manually designating a converting-color to be applied to the outline portion extracted by said outline extracting means;
• color converting means for color-converting the color of the extracted outline portion according to the converting-color designated by said color designating means;
• and
• recording means for recording the image on a recording medium according to an output from said color converting means.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• binarizing means for binarizing input image data;
• area spreading means for spreading an area represented by said image data binarized by said binarizing means;
• and
• coloring means for coloring the spread area made by said area spreading means, except for a portion of the spread area which was binarization-processed, with a predesignated color.

An image processing method comprising the steps of:

• extracting an outline of an input image;
• manually designating a converting-color to be applied to the outline extracted in said outline extracting step;
• and
• converting a color of an outline portion along the extracted outline of the input image to the converting-color designated in said designating step.

An image processing method comprising the steps of:

• inputting image data representing an original image;
• extracting an outline portion from the image data input in said input step;
• manually designating a converting-color to be applied to the outline portion extracted in said outline extracting step;
• color-converting a color of an outline portion along the extracted outline of the original image to the converting-color designated in said color designating step;
• and
• recording an image on a recording medium according to the color-converted outline portion.