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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2010
Yosuke Ushigome, Yokohama, JP;
Yosuke Ushigome, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a recording head configured to scan a recording medium and record an image on the recording medium. The recording apparatus includes a recording buffer to store image data representing one pixel with a plurality of bits, a reading unit to read, from a storage area of the recording buffer, image data corresponding to a region including a boundary between two regions recorded on the recording medium in successive scanning and recording operations, a thinning unit to thin out image data based on a thinning rate corresponding to the image data read by the reading unit, a storage unit to store image data thinned out by the thinning unit in the storage area of the recording buffer, a quantization unit to perform quantization processing on the image data stored in the recording buffer when the image data is transferred to the recording head, and a recording unit to perform recording based on the image data quantized by the quantization unit.