Patent ID: 11436455

Abstract:
An image processing method configured to process an image constituted by a plurality of pixels arranged two-dimensionally includes the steps of dividing the image into a plurality of blocks, and comparing image data of the pixel included in a first block as one of the blocks divided into with a first threshold value, and converting the image data into first dot data representing whether to form a dot using an error diffusion method. Further, processing of comparing image data of the pixel included in a second block as a block adjacent to the first block with a second threshold value prepared in advance, and converting the image data into second dot data representing whether to form a dot using an error diffusion method is performed independently of a first processing section. On this occasion, the first threshold value and the second threshold value include variable components periodically varying along two-dimensional arrangement directions of the pixels, respectively, and the variable components are provided with the same phase at a junction between the first block and the second block.