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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2005
Yoshinari Ohnishi, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshinari Ohnishi, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an image processing method. According to the present invention, the image processing method, whereby a multi-value bit map development area, in which is stored a multi-value bit map that represents an output image, and a plurality of pattern planes, each of which corresponds to an attribute of an object, are employed to develop a drawing command and to perform a color process, comprises the steps of developing a multi-bit map in the multi-value bit map development area in accordance with a drawing command, determining an attribute for an object by using the drawing command, developing the bit map, which is consonant with the drawing command, in one of the pattern planes that corresponds to the attribute of the object, and controlling a color process for the multi-value bit map in accordance with the bit maps developed in the pattern planes.
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