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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2015
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Genda, Kawasaki, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a contour extracting unit, a contour processing unit, a dithering unit and a binarizing unit. The contour extracting unit extracts a contour pixel forming a contour part from pixels of image data having multiple gradation values. The contour processing unit performs adjustment to reduce a gradation value of the contour pixel extracted by the contour extracting unit. The dithering unit binarizes, by using a blue noise dither matrix, the gradation value of the contour pixel subjected to the adjustment by the contour processing unit. The binarizing unit binarizes, of the pixels of the image data, a gradation value of a non-contour pixel which is other than the contour pixel.