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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2015
Naoto Shiraishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoto Shiraishi, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a determining unit that determines whether image data includes multi-valued drawing information for drawing a multi-valued image; a multi-valued drawing unit that draws the multi-valued image of the image data when the multi-valued drawing information is determined to be included in the image data; a less-than-multi-valued drawing unit that draws a less-than-multi-valued image of the image data when the multi-valued drawing information is not determined to be included in the image data; a value-count reducing image processing unit that reduces number of values of a drawing result of the multi-valued image to generate an image with a fewer number of values; and a less-than-multi-valued encoding processing unit that encodes a drawing result obtained by drawing the less-than-multi-valued image and encodes the generated image with the fewer number of values.