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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2012
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Ryota Kato, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshitomo Marumoto, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01); G06K 15/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/04595 (2013.01); B41J 2/2107 (2013.01); G06K 15/107 (2013.01); G06K 2215/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for generating data used to apply a plurality of inks similar in color and different in color material density, including a first ink and a second ink higher in color material density than the first ink, onto a pixel area on a recording medium with a recording head includes a generation unit configured to generate the data in such a way that out of a plurality of pixels constituting the pixel area, a number of pixels onto which dots of the first ink are applied in an overlapped manner is greater than a number of pixels onto which dots of the second ink are applied in the overlapped manner.