Image processing apparatus, printing apparatus, and image processing method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9030712
APP PUB NO 20140139854A1
SERIAL NO

14076647

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Nozzles in a print head are arrayed in a density of 600 dpi. Moreover, a dither matrix has a size of 16 pixels×16 pixels in 600 dpi. The dither matrix is repeatedly used. In the meantime, each of rectangles represents an HS processing unit. WHS=3 pixels. As a consequence, the relationship of a least common multiple below is established in a nozzle array direction: 3×WD=16×WHS. In this case, the cycle of interference unevenness can be prolonged to the least common multiple between WD and WHS, that is, 48 pixels (3WD). In this manner, the size of the dither matrix is not an integral multiple of the HS processing unit width, so that the cycle of interference unevenness can be prolonged more than the size of the dither matrix. Thus, the interference unevenness can be hardly recognized.

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  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Goto, Fumitaka Tokyo, JP 139 1373
Iguchi, Ryosuke Kawasaki, JP 70 880
Ishikawa, Tomokazu Yokohama, JP 241 2047
Kagawa, Hidetsugu Kawasaki, JP 68 476
Miyake, Nobutaka Yokohama, JP 90 1423
Nakagawa, Junichi Tokyo, JP 111 561
Ono, Mitsuhiro Tokyo, JP 134 1459
Saito, Senichi Funabashi, JP 20 221
Yamada, Akitoshi Yokohama, JP 295 3062

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