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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2010
Yusuke Komano, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Nakanishi, Kawasaki, JP;
Yusuke Komano, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Nakanishi, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording apparatus configured to cause a recording head to move and scan in a reciprocating manner includes a buffer configured to store raster data including multivalued data, a table in which a plurality of dot patterns is defined for a value of the multivalued data and including a dot pattern corresponding to the value, a first information storage unit configured to store an initial value of the dot pattern according to a direction of scanning by the recording head and the value of the multivalued data, a second information storage unit configured to store information indicating an empty raster, and a generation unit configured to, based on the initial value stored by the first information storage unit and the table, read the multivalued data from the buffer and generate a dot pattern based on the read multivalued data.