IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

In chaning or otherwise handling sequential videotex codes comprising geometric codes representing individual image areas as respective geometric drawings and also characteristic codes representing attributes of the geometric drawings, the order of transmission of the geometric codes and characteristic codes is supervised in an order table (105) and a characteristic code table (106) is provided for supervising the characteristic codes, with correction or rearranging of the videotex code data being effected in the tables (105, 106). In the case where the videotex codes are to represent an input colour image, a histogram of the frequencies of occurrence of all colours represented by colour data for each input colour image is produced and a predetermined relatively small number of colours having the highest frequencies of occurrence, either in the histogram as a whole, or in divisions of the histogram, are selected and each image area has assigned thereto colour data representing the one of the selected colours closest to the actual colour of the image area in question.