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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2009
Applicant:
Toshitsugu Yamamoto, Takatsuki, JP;
Inventor:
Toshitsugu Yamamoto, Takatsuki, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G03F 3/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing apparatus executes an area dividing process on color image data that have been divided into blocks of a prescribed size, and for each block, selects a three-color mode when tone gradation is of higher priority and a four-color mode when resolution is of higher priority, as a color mode for an area averaging process. The image processing device executes a compression process in the selected color mode block by block, and outputs image data in a data format of 256 bit length, regardless of the color mode for compression.