Image processing apparatus and image processing method for reducing the amount of consumption of recording material

摘要

There is provided an image processing apparatus which can suppress degradation of an image quality in a recording material save mode processing and obtain an effect of consumption amount reduction of recording material desired by a user at low costs. A recording material consumption amount at the time of applying first color conversion processing unit is predicted corresponding to inputted image data. The setting of a second color conversion processing is changed from a prediction value and a target value of the recording material consumption amount.

主权项

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
a color conversion unit configured to perform color conversion in such a manner that density of image data after the color conversion is decreased more largely in a high density area as compared with a low density area in the image data; an adjustment unit configured to perform, in a case where a reduction ratio of recording material based on the image data after the color conversion by the color conversion unit has not reached a reduction target value, adjustment processing which linearly decreases a signal value of the image data so that the reduction ratio of recording material reaches the reduction target value, wherein when the reduction ratio of recording material reaches the reduction target value, the adjustment processing unit does not perform the adjustment processing.