Color image processing apparatus

• US 7,576,892 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2007
• Issued: 08/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ikeda, Yoshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Madeleine A
• Application Number:
  US11/743,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20070279660A1
• Time in Patent Office: 839 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.9, 358/537, 358/1.1, 358/538, 358/540, 358/518, 358/515, 358/523, 358/526, 358/530, 358/501, 358/2.1, 358/1.13, 382/162, 382/167
• US Class Current: 358/1.9
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/01 for producing multicoloured copies colour correction in photography G03C; colour correction in printing plate production
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/06 for developing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4076 dependent on references outside the picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/46 Colour picture communication systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/6077 Colour balance, e.g. colour cast correction

Abstract

The invention relates to a color image processing apparatus and, more particularly, to adjusting means of a color tone and a sharpness. According to the invention, there is provided a color image processing apparatus characterized by having processing means for performing processes to given color image data; memory means which can store a plurality of processing parameters of the processing means together with peculiar names, and means for searching the registered processing parameters from the memory means.

Claims

1. A color image processing apparatus comprising:

a first input unit configured to input first information indicating plural variables, each of which corresponds to one of plural color corrections instructed by a user;

a second input unit configured to input an identifier by a user;

a registering unit configured to register the identifier input by said second input unit with a set of the plural variables input by said first input unit;

a display unit configured to display the identifier registered in said registering unit so that a user can select the identifier;

a third input unit configured to input second information relating to a change of one of the plural variables corresponding to the selected identifier; and

a color image processing unit configured to perform a color image process corresponding to the plural color corrections based on variables each of which corresponds to one of plural color corrections, wherein the variables includes a variable changed from one of the plural variables in accordance with the second information.

2. A color image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said color image processing unit performs independently plural color corrections.

3. A color image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein each of the plural color corrections respectively corresponds to one of the variables.

4. A color image processing method comprising:

a first input step configured to input first information indicating plural variables, each of which corresponds to one of plural color corrections instructed selected by a user;

a second input step configured to input an identifier by a user;

a registering step configured to register the identifier input in a second input step with a set of the plural variables input in said first input step;

a display step configured to display the identifier registered in said registering step on a display so that a user can select the identifier;

a third input step configured to input second information relating to a change of one of the plural variables corresponding to the selected identifier; and

a color image processing step configured to perform a color image process corresponding to the plural color corrections based on variables each of which corresponds to one of plural color corrections, wherein the variables includes a variable changed from one of the plural variables in accordance with the second information.

5. A color image processing method according to claim 4, wherein in said color image processing step performs plural color corrections independently.

6. A color image processing method according to claim 5, wherein each of the plural color corrections corresponds to a respective one of the variables.