Patent ID: 7823999

Claim:
A recording apparatus including a recording head configured to perform scanning of a recording medium to record an image on the recording medium, the recording apparatus comprising: a recording buffer configured to store image data representing one pixel having a plurality of bits; a reading unit configured to read, from a storage area of the recording buffer, image data corresponding to a region including a boundary between a region recorded on the recording medium by a first scanning and recording operation and a region recorded on the recording medium by a subsequent scanning and recording operation; a thinning unit configured to thin out the image data based on a thinning rate corresponding to an ink amount indicated by the image data read by the reading unit; a storage unit configured to store the image data thinned out by the thinning unit in the storage area of the recording buffer; and a recording unit including the recording head configured to perform recording based on the image data including the thinned out data.