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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Haeng-nan Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 (2006.01); H04N 1/46 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01); H04N 1/52 (2006.01); H04N 1/387 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/6016 (2013.01); H04N 1/52 (2013.01); H04N 1/387 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a rendering image having a plurality of tones, a communication interface unit configured to receive print data, a rendering unit configured to render the received print data to a bitmap image, a mergence unit configured to merge the bitmap image and the rendering image into a single mergence image, a binary coding unit configured to perform halftoning for the generated mergence image to generate binary data, and a print engine unit configured to form an image on a paper by using the generated binary data.