Patent ID: 8462387
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus for recording a color image on a print medium, comprising: a buffer configured to store first image data expressed by multi-value data corresponding to a first color space; a conversion unit configured to convert the first image data stored in the buffer into second image data that corresponds to a second color space and that corresponds to each recording color; a dividing unit configured to divide the second image data converted by the conversion unit into first divided data and second divided data; a correcting unit configured to correct the second divided data depending on the first divided data divided by the dividing unit so as to reduce an overlap between a dot based on the first divided data and a dot based on the second divided data; and a control unit configured to read out the first image data for each predetermined recording area where a part of an image of a page is to be recorded and to cause the conversion unit to convert the first image data, the dividing unit to divide the second image data and the correcting unit to correct the second divided data in accordance with the read out first image data.