Image forming apparatus, image processing method and recording medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorManabu Sakakibara
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus comprises gradation converting means for executing a gradation conversion for process input image data and dither conversion processing means for converting the gradation conversion processed image data into a plurality of image data by using a dither matrix, wherein the gradation conversion processed image data has the number of conversion errors due to the gradation conversion smaller than the number of gradation expressible by the dither matrix.
Claims7
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- gradation converting means for executing a gradation conversion on process input image data;
- and
- dither conversion processing means for converting the gradation conversion processed image data into a plurality of image data by using a dither matrix,
- wherein the number of bits of the process input image data corresponds to the number of bits capable of being expressed in the dither matrix,
- said dither conversion processing means switches the dither matrix, in accordance with a pixel position indicted by the input image data, and
- a sum total of the dither-converted image data within the dither matrix is substantially equivalent to the value of the process input image data.
An image processing method comprising the steps of:
- executing a gradation conversion process on input image data;
- and
- converting the gradation conversion processed image data into a plurality of image data by using a dither matrix,
- wherein the number of bits of the process input image data corresponds to the number of bits capable of being expressed in the dither matrix,
- said dither conversion processing means switches the dither matrix, in accordance with a pixel position indicted by the input image data, and
- a sum total of the dither-converted image data within the dither matrix is substantially equivalent to the value of the process input image data.
A recording medium which stores a program, said program comprising:
- a code of the step of executing a gradation conversion process on input image data;
- and
- a code of the step of converting the gradation conversion processed image data into a plurality of image data by using a dither matrix,
- wherein the number of bits of the process input image data corresponds to the number of bits capable of being expressed in the dither matrix,
- said dither conversion processing means switches the dither matrix, in accordance with a pixel position indicted by the input image data, and
- a sum total of the dither-converted image data within the dither matrix is substantially equivalent to the value of the process input image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.