Patent ID: 8508797
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: B41J,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus that processes input image data corresponding to an image to be recorded in a predetermined region of a recording medium, to record the image in the predetermined region of the recording medium by a plurality of relative movements between the recording medium and recording means that includes a plurality of recording element groups for ejecting ink of a single color, the apparatus comprising: first generating means for generating a plurality of pieces of multivalued image data for a same pixel of the single color respectively corresponding to the plurality of relative movements from the input image data on a pixel basis; second generating means for quantizing each of the pieces of the multivalued image data for the same pixel of the single color generated by the first generating means on a pixel basis to generate quantized data corresponding to the plurality of relative movements; and dividing means for dividing each of pieces of the quantized data generated by the second generating means and corresponding to the plurality of relative movements into quantized data corresponding to the plurality of recording element groups and being complements of each other.