US 7,557,951 B2
Image processor and image printer
Kenji Hisatomi, Hirakata (Japan); Kazuyuki Murata, Kyotanabe (Japan); and Hideyuki Kuwano, Hirakata (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/507,080
PCT Filed Feb. 12, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/01423
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 09, 2004,
PCT Pub. No. WO03/077534, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 18, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-066041 (JP), filed on Mar. 11, 2002; and application No. 2002-365779 (JP), filed on Dec. 17, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2005/0151986 A1, Jul. 14, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01); G03F 3/08 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—1.9  [358/518] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image printing apparatus which executes printing based on given image data, the apparatus comprising:
an image obtaining unit operable to obtain at least one or more image data and information which indicates an apparatus which has generated the image data;
a color space estimating unit operable to estimate a color space according to the image data based on the information which indicates an apparatus which has generated the image data;
a color space specifying unit operable to specify a color space according to the image printing apparatus; and
a color space conversion unit operable to convert the obtained image data so that a definition according to the estimated color space becomes a definition according to the specified color space.