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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2016
Applicant:
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Hideya Muramoto, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01); H04N 1/409 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/60 (2013.01); B41J 29/38 (2013.01); G06F 3/1219 (2013.01); H04N 1/40 (2013.01); H04N 1/4092 (2013.01); B41J 21/00 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0081 (2013.01);
Abstract
The character edge area determining unit () determines a character edge area in input image data. The output image processing unit () performs an image process for a target pixel in the determined character edge area in order to adjust a toner consumption amount in accordance with the number of continuous edge pixels (i.e. continuous pixels that belong to the character edge area) included in a reference window of which a center is set on the target pixel and an average value of pixel values of the continuous edge pixels.