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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 15, 2020
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Junichi Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;

Yumi Yanai, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/21 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01); H04N 1/401 (2006.01); H04N 1/58 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/034 (2006.01); H04N 1/195 (2006.01); H04N 1/23 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G06K 15/10 (2006.01); B41J 2/205 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/2139 (2013.01); B41J 2/2056 (2013.01); B41J 2/2146 (2013.01); G06K 15/102 (2013.01); G06K 15/1877 (2013.01); H04N 1/00005 (2013.01); H04N 1/00015 (2013.01); H04N 1/00023 (2013.01); H04N 1/00068 (2013.01); H04N 1/00087 (2013.01); H04N 1/034 (2013.01); H04N 1/1951 (2013.01); H04N 1/233 (2013.01); H04N 1/2315 (2013.01); H04N 1/2346 (2013.01); H04N 1/40006 (2013.01); H04N 1/4015 (2013.01); H04N 1/40087 (2013.01); H04N 1/58 (2013.01); H04N 1/605 (2013.01); H04N 1/6027 (2013.01); H04N 1/6041 (2013.01); G06K 15/027 (2013.01); H04N 1/6033 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a processing unit that converts first input image data for a first region and second input image data for a second region to reduce a difference between first region recorded image density and second region recorded image density, and generates dot position data of a dot to be generated in each of the first and second regions based on the dot data after the conversion processing. The acquisition unit acquires edge information indicating a first object pixel edge of an image pixel for the first region and a second object pixel edge of an image pixel for the second region. Based on the acquired edge information, conversion and generation processing are performed in such a manner that a color signal of an edge pixel is increased/reduced to a degree lower than a degree to which a color signal of a non-edge object pixel is increased/reduced.


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