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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Shoji Takeda, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes (A) a dither processing unit to perform dither processing on first image data to generate second image data, the second image data including a target pixel and an adjacent pixel, each of the pixels having a density value, the density value of the target pixel being greater than that of the adjacent pixel, and the density value of the adjacent pixel being not greater than a predetermined density, (B) a diffusing unit (a) to determine an error value resulting at the target pixel, (b) to diffuse the error value to pixels subsequent to the target pixel, and not to diffuse an error value resulting at the adjacent pixel to pixels subsequent to the adjacent pixel.