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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Jinno, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method comprises receiving color data and gloss data of an image, converting the color data into a first signal representing a use amount of a dark print material having a relatively high density, generating a second signal in which a use amount corresponding to the gloss data, of the dark print material use amount indicated by the first signal, is replaced with a use amount corresponding to a light print material having a relatively low density, converting the second signal into path separation data corresponding to each printing scan of an apparatus, and performing halftone processing on the path separation data to generate a print signal indicating a print position of an on-dot, for each of the dark print material and the light print material, thereby generating the print signal which causes superposition of on-dots of the light print material in printing scan of the apparatus.