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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2013
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiaki Kakutani, Shiojiri, JP;
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing device includes a processing device that performs a color reduction processing of converting data of a-levels of gray indicative of an image to be displayed in a display area including a plurality of pixels arranged along a first direction and a second direction into data of b-levels of gray (b<a) and, upon receiving an input of data for reducing the number of pixels with a first gray level in the display area to 50%, generates a result in which the arrangement of the pixels with the first gray level has blue noise characteristics in the display area, and the maximum value of the rate of occurrence of specific patterns in the display area is less than 7.0%.