Apparatus, method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAtsushi Totsuka
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Abstract
An apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires first shape data representing a shape of ink unevenness, a first determination unit that determines a direction of a pattern of the ink unevenness based on the first shape data, a second determination unit that determines a rotation angle for changing the direction of the pattern of the ink unevenness based on at least one of a movement direction of a head of a printer and a movement direction of a recording medium, and a generation unit that generates second shape data representing a shape having a pattern in at least one of the movement direction of the head and the movement direction of the recording medium based on the first shape data and the rotation angle.
Claims20
An apparatus which generates data for an inkjet printer that includes a head having an ink discharge port to form ink unevenness on a recording medium based on relative movement between the head and the recording medium and ink discharge by the head, the apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors, the one or more memories having instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, perform operations as:
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire first shape data representing a shape of the ink unevenness;
- a first determination unit configured to determine a direction of a pattern of the ink unevenness based on the first shape data;
- a second determination unit configured to determine a rotation angle for changing the direction of the pattern of the ink unevenness based on at least one of a movement direction of the head and a movement direction of the recording medium;
- and
- a generation unit configured to generate second shape data representing a shape having a pattern in at least one of the movement direction of the head and the movement direction of the recording medium based on the first shape data and the rotation angle.
A printer which includes a head having an ink discharge port and forms ink unevenness on a recording medium based on relative movement between the head and the recording medium and ink discharge by the head, the printer comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors, the one or more memories having instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, perform operations as:
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire first shape data representing a shape of the ink unevenness;
- and
- a control unit configured to control forming, on the recording medium, ink unevenness having a pattern in at least one of a movement direction of the head and a movement direction of the recording medium based on the first shape data.
A method for generating data for an inkjet printer that includes a head having an ink discharge port to form ink unevenness on a recording medium based on relative movement between the head and the recording medium and ink discharge by the head, the image processing method comprising:
- acquiring first shape data representing a shape of the ink unevenness;
- determining a direction of a pattern of the ink unevenness based on the first shape data;
- determining a rotation angle for changing the direction of the pattern of the ink unevenness based on at least one of a movement direction of the head and a movement direction of the recording medium;
- and
- generating second shape data representing a shape having a pattern in at least one of the movement direction of the head and the movement direction of the recording medium based on the first shape data and the rotation angle,
- wherein the image processing method is executed by one or more processors of the image processing apparatus based on instructions stored in one or more memories of the image processing apparatus.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method for generating data for an inkjet printer that includes a head having an ink discharge port to form ink unevenness on a recording medium based on relative movement between the head and the recording medium and ink discharge by the head, the method comprising:
- acquiring first shape data representing a shape of the ink unevenness;
- determining a direction of a pattern of the ink unevenness based on the first shape data;
- determining a rotation angle for changing the direction of the pattern of the ink unevenness based on at least one of a movement direction of the head and a movement direction of the recording medium;
- and
- generating second shape data representing a shape having a pattern in at least one of the movement direction of the head and the movement direction of the recording medium based on the first shape data and the rotation angle,
- wherein the image processing method is executed by one or more processors of the image processing apparatus based on instructions stored in one or more memories of the image processing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.