| CPC B41M 3/06 (2013.01) [H04N 1/0282 (2013.01); H04N 1/6016 (2013.01)] | 8 Claims |
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
one or more processors that are configured:
to obtain image data obtained by optically reading an original image;
to obtain a fluorescence light emission amount obtained by optically detecting a fluorescent color material in the original image;
to estimate, based on the obtained fluorescence light emission amount, a color component attributable to the fluorescent color material in the obtained image data, the color component attributable to the fluorescent color material including a color component of reflected light in the fluorescent color material and a color component caused by emission when the fluorescent color material transitions from an excited state to a ground state;
to separate a color component attributable to a subtractive color mixture color material from the obtained image data by using the estimated color component attributable to the fluorescent color material; and
to output image data obtained by the separation.
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