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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2008
Yasunori Fujimoto, Inagi, JP;
Shinichi Miyazaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroki Horikoshi, Komae, JP;
Akira Ichimura, Tokyo, JP;
Naoko Baba, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasunori Fujimoto, Inagi, JP;
Shinichi Miyazaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroki Horikoshi, Komae, JP;
Akira Ichimura, Tokyo, JP;
Naoko Baba, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus processes, for each pixel, multivalued image data for a unit area of a recording medium, so as to form an image on the unit area with a plurality of relative movements between a recording head and the recording medium. The apparatus has a selector that selects a first processing mode for dividing the multivalued image data into a plurality of pieces of multivalued image data corresponding to the plurality of relative movements, and then quantizing each of the plurality of pieces of multivalued image data, or a second processing mode for quantizing the multivalued image data into quantized image data, and then dividing the quantized image data into a plurality of pieces of quantized image data corresponding to the plurality of relative movements. The selector selects the processing mode based on a content (attribute, grayscale, color, etc.) of the multivalued image data.