Intelligent color to texture converter

An image processor operative to generate a single colorant version of a color image, the single colorant version including modulations only where necessary to distinguish between conflicting colors, the image processor comprising:

• an image analyzer operative to find and classify conflicting colors in the color image;
• a gray scale modulator operative to add spatial modulations to single colorant versions of only the conflicting colors within the single colorant version of the color image wherein the gray scale modulator further comprises a color relationship discriminator operative to receive conflicting color classification information from the image analyzer and color image pixel information, the color relationship discriminator operative to determine a relationship between the color image pixel and the conflicting color and wherein the gray scale modulator further comprises:
• a spatial modulation attenuator operative to attenuate a gray scale modulation based on the relationship between the color image pixel and the conflicting color.

An image processor operative to generate a single colorant version of a color image, the single colorant version including modulations only where necessary to distinguish between conflicting colors, the image processor comprising:

• an image analyzer operative to find and classify conflicting colors in the color image;
• a gray scale modulator operative to add spatial modulations to single colorant versions of only the conflicting colors within the single colorant version of the color image wherein the gray scale modulator further comprises a color relationship discriminator operative to receive conflicting color classification information from the image analyzer and color image pixel information, the color relationship discriminator operative to determine a relationship between the color image pixel and the conflicting color and wherein the relationship between the conflicting color and the color image pixel comprises a color distance within a color space.

An image processor operative to generate a single colorant version of a color image, the single colorant version including modulations only where necessary to distinguish between conflicting colors, the image processor comprising:

• an image analyzer operative to find and classify conflicting colors in the color image;
• a gray scale modulator operative to add spatial modulations to single colorant versions of only the conflicting colors within the single colorant version of the color image wherein the gray scale modulator further comprises
• a color relationship discriminator operative to receive conflicting color classification information from the image analyzer and color image pixel information, the color relationship discriminator operative to determine a relationship between the color image pixel and the conflicting color and wherein the relationship between the conflicting color and the color image pixel comprises a color distance within a perceptually uniform color space.

An image processor operative to generate a single colorant version of a color image, the single colorant version including modulations only where necessary to distinguish between conflicting colors, the image processor comprising:

• an image analyzer operative to find and classify conflicting colors in the color image;
• a gray scale modulator operative to add spatial modulations to single colorant versions of only the conflicting colors within the single colorant version of the color image wherein the gray scale modulator further comprises a color relationship discriminator operative to receive conflicting color classification information from the image analyzer and color image pixel information, the color relationship discriminator operative to determine a relationship between the color image pixel and the conflicting color and wherein the relationship between the conflicting color and the color image pixel comprises a color distance within a CIELAB color space.