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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2017
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Sugita, Hachioji, JP;
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a control apparatus, an image processing method and a non-transitory recording medium. A hardware processor of the control apparatus controls the amount of color materials to be used in printing a source image together with a white base by adjusting pixel values of multi-valued pixels forming the source image and white base, and converts the multi-valued pixels into two-valued pixels corresponding to colors of the color materials of the source image and two-valued white pixels. In controlling the amount of color materials, the hardware processor, for each multi-valued pixel of the white base, defines the pixel value such that colored two-valued white pixels exist in a coverage ratio being equal to or greater than the total coverage ratio of the color materials of the source image. The hardware processor rearranges the two-valued white pixels so that colored two-valued white pixels are located at all the colored pixel positions.
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