Patent ID: 8958119
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing device comprising: a data acquisition unit that acquires image data serving as a printing target; an instruction receiving unit that receives, from an operator, an instruction to carry out n-up printing for which a scaling ratio is designated and an instruction to carry out toner-saving printing that is printing in which an amount of toner used is reduced; an image conversion pattern storage unit that stores a plurality of image conversion patterns having different dot thinning ratios and scaling ratios corresponding to the respective image conversion patterns, in which image conversion patterns having smaller dot thinning ratios are mapped to greater scaling ratios; an image processing unit that reads the image conversion pattern mapped to the scaling ratio designated for the n-up printing out of the image conversion pattern storage unit when the instructions to carry out the n-up printing and the toner-saving printing are received by the instruction receiving unit, and performs image processing on the image data acquired by the data acquisition unit using the image conversion pattern; and a determination unit discriminating whether the image data acquired by the data acquisition unit is a text image or a graphic image in units of pages, wherein the image conversion pattern storage unit stores the image conversion pattern of the dot thinning ratio set for the image processing of the graphic image, and when the instructions to carry out the n-up printing and the toner-saving printing are received by the instruction receiving unit, the image processing unit performs the image processing using the image conversion pattern mapped to the scaling ratio on the image data corresponding to the page determined to be the text image by the determination unit, and performs the image processing using the image conversion pattern stored in the image conversion pattern storage unit for graphic image processing on the image data corresponding to the page determined to be the graphic image by the determination unit.