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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2014
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiaki Kakutani, Nagano, JP;
Takuma Hayashi, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
When dot data indicating whether or not a dot is to be formed is formed based on the gradation value for each pixel forming an image, dots belonging to a plurality of pixel groups are printed in a common region in an overlapping manner, and the distribution of dots formed in the common region has a noise characteristic possessing a peak in the spatial frequency region on the high-frequency side. In a case where first and second pixels belonging, respectively, to two pixel groups are proximal pixels in the common region in a predetermined gradation range in which probabilities k1 and k2 at which a dot is formed in the first and second pixels are such that k1<0.5 and k2<0.5, a probability K of a dot being formed in both of the proximal pixels is set to be close to k1·k2.