Image processing apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorHiroshi Ishii
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a scanner which reads documents and produces image data in a first color space; a color converter which converts image data in the first color space into image data in a second color space; a printer unit which prints out the converted image data in the second color space; and a controller which receives image data in the first color space from an external apparatus. The controller converts the received image data into image data in the second color space and transmits the converted image data to the printer unit if the received image data do not have predetermined property, and the controller transmits the received image data to the color converter without converting within the controller if the received image data have the predetermined property.
Claims14
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a scanner which reads documents and produces image data in a first color space to which a predetermined property is added, the image data being output to an external apparatus;
- a first color converter which converts the image data in the first color space into image data in a second color space;
- a second color converter which converts image data in the first color space input from the external apparatus into image data in the second color space;
- a printer unit which prints out the converted image data in the second color space;
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- a controller which receives image data in the first color space from the external apparatus,
- wherein said controller provides the received image data to the second color converter to convert the received image data into image data in the second color space when the received image data does not have the predetermined property and transmits the converted image data to the printer unit, and
- wherein said controller transmits the received image data to the first color converter to convert the received image data into the image data in the second color space without converting by the second color converter when the received image data has the predetermined property.
A controller device connectable to an imaging device which comprises a first color converter to convert image data in a first color space into image data in a second color space, wherein a predetermined property is added to the image data in the first color space that is output from the imaging device to an external apparatus, and a printer to print out the converted image data in the second color space, said controller device comprising:
- a receiver which receives image data in the first color space from the external apparatus;
- a second color converter which converts the received image data into image data in the second color space when the received image data does not have the predetermined property;
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- a transmitter which transmits the converted image data to the imaging device when the received image data does not have the predetermined property, and transmits the received image data to the first color converter of the imaging device without converting in the second color converter when the received image data has the predetermined property.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.