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Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2019
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ryosuke Otani, Tokyo, JP;

Hisashi Ishikawa, Urayasu, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/21 (2006.01); B41J 2/20 (2006.01); B41J 2/205 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/2139 (2013.01); B41J 2/2054 (2013.01);
Abstract

Density unevenness accompanying a variation in an ejection characteristic of each nozzle is reduced without worsening granularity of an image. To this end, an image processing apparatus generates first corrected data by correcting image data by using a first correction table common to the plurality of nozzles. Further, the image processing apparatus generates second corrected data by correcting the image data by using a second correction table for each of the plurality of nozzles. Furthermore, the image processing apparatus generates first quantized data by quantizing the first corrected data and generates second quantized data by quantizing the second corrected data. After that, the image processing apparatus generates N-valued print data based on the first quantized data and the second quantized data.


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