Picture image color separating apparatus

U.S. Patent Number: 5343310

Abstract: A picture image color separating apparatus to be used when block copies for dyeing use are made in a dyeing business, wherein a region the above described other representative color occupies may not exist on a straight line connecting the above described adjacent two representative color positions on the color space when the other representative color exists near the adjacent two representative colors on the original picture image from among a plurality of representative colors selected by the given procedure by the representative color selecting portion from the illustration inputted from the picture image inputting portion, whereby noises by the above described representative color are not caused on the boundary of the above described adjacent two representative colors.

Inventors: Tasaki; Koji (Yao, JP), Asai; Toshimitsu (Osaka, JP), Jones; Kenneth M. (Yao, JP)

Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Osaka, JP)

Application Number: 07/773,209

Issued: 1994-08-30

Expired: 2006-08-30

Classes: 358/515 ; 358/518; 358/533

Field of search: 358/75,80,81,316,515,518,531,533

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