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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2021
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Shibata, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing method, an apparatus, a program, and an image forming apparatus capable of suppressing an artifact in a boundary part of a threshold value matrix and performing high-quality correction even in a case where defective recording elements are concentrated are provided. An image processing method according to an aspect of the present invention includes performing correction of suppressing visibility of an image defect using recording elements around a defective recording element of a recording head by disabling the defective recording element, and performing quantization of data of an image, in which processing of the quantization includes applying a first threshold value matrix to a first image region that is separated by more than a first distance from a defective image region, applying a second threshold value matrix to a second image region separated by less than the first distance, and applying a third threshold value matrix to a third image region at a boundary between the first image region and the second image region.