Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming device and method of interpolation of missing image dots
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Application No.: US16174964Application Date: 2018-10-30
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Publication No.: US10609252B2Publication Date: 2020-03-31
- Inventor: Toshiyuki Mizutani
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Priority: JP2017-211459 20171101
- Main IPC: G06K15/10
- IPC: G06K15/10 ; H04N1/409 ; B41J2/21 ; H04N1/405 ; B41J25/00

Abstract:
An image forming device includes: a hardware processor that performs halftone processing on input image data using a threshold matrix of a dither method, and that, when dot missing exists in a formed image by the image forming part, performs interpolation by rearranging a missing dot to peripheral pixel position; and an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium on the basis of image data after halftone processing by the halftone processing part, wherein the hardware processor, using the threshold matrix, sets a blank pixel having a high probability of being generated next when gradation is increased, as a rearrangement destination of the missing dot.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190132478A1 IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD Public/Granted day:2019-05-02
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