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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2002
Taisuke Akahori, Toyokawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Suzuki, Toyokawa, JP;
Taisuke Akahori, Toyokawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Suzuki, Toyokawa, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image forming apparatus utilizing the image processing apparatus that can decrease deterioration of image quality even when misjudgment occurs in judging a type of an image, such as a halftone-dot area and an edge area of a character, when performing predetermined image processing on the image. When an area judgment unitjudges that a target pixel is in an edge area of a character that is present on a halftone-dot area (when any one of signals Sto Sis 'high'), an operation of image processing to be performed on the target pixel is switched in accordance with whether the target pixel is a color pixel or not and whether the halftone-dot area is a color area or not.