Printing apparatus, printing method and image processing apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsFumiyuki Watanabe, Saravanacoumar Dourecannou
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Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, a printing apparatus comprises a data acquisition section configured to acquire printing data; an image determination section configured to determine a character part or a picture part of an image indicated by the printing data; an image process section configured to erase the picture part or the part other than the character part from the image indicated by the printing data; and a printing control section configured to execute a printing of an image processed by the image process section.
Claims6
A printing apparatus, comprising:
- a data acquisition section configured to acquire printing data;
- an image determination section configured to determine a character part or a picture part of an image indicated by the printing data;
- an image process section configured to erase the picture part or the part other than the character part from the image indicated by the printing data, and then determines a pixel of which a density value is lower than a pre-set density value in the image for which erasing has been executed, and then replaces a pixel value of the determined pixel with 0 or a value that indicates white;
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- a printing control section configured to execute a printing of an image processed by the image process section.
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- a data acquisition section configured to acquire image data;
- an image determination section configured to determine a character part or a picture part of an image indicated by the image data;
- an image process section configured to erase the picture part or the part other than the character part from the image indicated by the image data, and then determines a pixel of which a density value is lower than a pre-set density value in the image for which erasing has been executed, and then replaces a pixel value of the determined pixel with 0 or a value that indicates white;
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- an output control section configured to output an image processed by the image process section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.