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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:
Oct. 05, 2010

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2007
Applicant:

Koichi Miyazaki, Ebina, JP;

Inventor:

Koichi Miyazaki, Ebina, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image processing device includes a multivalue-converting unit that converts input binary image data including plural color components into multivalued image data; a restriction unit that restricts imaging materials to be used for multivalued image data produced by the multivalue-converting unit; and a binarizing unit that binarizes the multivalued image data for which the imaging materials to be used have been restricted by the restriction unit.


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