Image processing device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasashi Suzuki, Tomoaki Hattori, Katsuyuki Yokoi
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Abstract
A color blindness dialog box in a Properties window includes a color blindness process mode checkbox enabling a user to select a printing process designed for color blindness. When the color blindness process mode checkbox is checked, it is determined whether the image to be printed includes problematic areas for people with color blindness. If so, image data for these areas is extracted and displayed in a popup window. Subsequently, a borderline process is performed to form a borderline on either or both of the border areas and of text data and graphics data. Thus, the problematic areas are extracted and processed properly so that the problematic areas will become easy to distinguish.
Claims42
An image processing device for processing image data, comprising:
- an image input portion receiving image data indicative of an image;
- and
- an image processing portion processing the image data into processed image data indicative of a processed image which has image portions easy to distinguish,
- wherein:
- the image processing portion includes an image output portion forming the processed image based on the processed image data on a recording medium,
- the image processing portion includes a color image processing portion processing a color state of an entire part of the original image, and
- the image data is indicative of an original color image having a color hue, the color image processing portion processing the original color image into a processed color image whose color hue is determined by rotating the color hue of the original color image on a predetermined color plane.
An image processing device for processing image data, comprising:
- an image input portion receiving image data indicative of an image;
- and
- an image processing portion processing the image data into processed image data indicative of a processed image which has image portions easy to distinguish, wherein:
- the image processing portion includes an image output portion forming the processed image based on the processed image data on a recording medium,
- the image data includes original text data indicative of a text located in the image and surrounding-image data indicative of a surrounding image that is located in the image at a portion surrounding the text and
- the image processing portion processes the image data for at least a border portion between the text and the surrounding-image into the processed image data allowing the text to become easy to distinguish from the surrounding image, and
- the image processing portion processes the image data for at least the border portion into the processed image data allowing the text to become easy to distinguish by people with color blindness from the surrounding image.
An image processing device for processing image data, comprising:
- an image input portion receiving image data indicative of an image;
- an image processing portion processing the image data into processed image data indicative of a processed image which has image portions easy to distinguish;
- and
- an image extracting portion extracting from the image an image region that includes at least two image portions which are located adjacent to each other and which are difficult to distinguish, the processing portion processing the image data indicative of at least a part of the extracted image region,
- wherein:
- the image extracting portion extracts the image region that includes the at least two image portions which are difficult to distinguish by people with color blindness.
- the image data includes color data indicative of color of each pixel located in the image,
- the image extracting portion includes a color type determining portion determining color type of each pixel located in at least a part of the entire image, the image extracting portion extracting, based on the determined color type of the each pixel, the image region that includes at least two image portions that have different color types, and
- the image processing portion includes an image output portion forming the processed image based on the processed image data on a recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.