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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Jun Itoh, Kashiwa-shi, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/46 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/556 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a hardware configuration for counting the amount of toner used for an image to be printed for each color component uses a conversion coefficient used for processing for converting a pixel value in image data expressing the image into a signal value indicating the amount of toner to convert the pixel value into the signal value. The image forming apparatus outputs information indicating whether or not a high-density image portion is included in an image based on the signal value obtained by performing the conversion.