COLOR CORRECTION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COLOR CORRECTION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

To improve the processing efficiency in color correction when forming, on a recording medium, a multi-layered image in which a second image in a second color overlaps a part of a first image in a first color.SOLUTION: A color correction device has: acquisition means that acquires first color information on a first image in a first color formed on a recording medium and second color information on a second image in a second color overlapped on the first color formed on the recording medium; and correction means that, based on the first color information and second color information, estimates color information on the second color varying by being affected by correction of the first color information to a first target value, and determines a correction value for the second color (S102-S104).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7 【課題】第１色の第１画像の一部に、第２色の第２画像が重なる多層画像を記録媒体に形成する場合に、色補正の処理効率を高める。【解決手段】色補正装置は、記録媒体上に形成された第１色による第１画像の第１色情報と、記録媒体上に形成された第１色の上に重ねられた第２色による第２画像の第２色情報と、を取得する取得手段と、第１色情報および第２色情報に基づいて、第１色情報を第１目標値へ補正する際の影響を受けて変動する第２色の色情報を推定し、第２色の補正値を求める補正手段と、を有する（Ｓ１０２～Ｓ１０４）。【選択図】図７