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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Hiromitsu Nishikawa, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/60 (2006.01); H04N 1/54 (2006.01); H04N 1/405 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/6019 (2013.01); H04N 1/54 (2013.01); H04N 1/6058 (2013.01); H04N 1/6075 (2013.01); H04N 1/6077 (2013.01); H04N 1/4051 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image processing apparatus of the embodiments includes: an input unit configured to input a hue signal representing a hue of an image and an image quality signal representing a texture of the image; a conversion unit configured to convert the image quality signal into a physical quantity signal indicating at least one physical quantity of a refractive index of a color material, surface roughness of an image, an area ratio of dots on an image surface, and a layer thickness of a color material in an image corresponding to the image quality signal; and a dot arrangement determination unit configured to determine a color material dot arrangement for outputting the image based on the hue signal and the physical quantity signal.


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