ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,548, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus, threshold matrix generation apparatus, control methods therefor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Ryosuke Otani (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus converts, based on a threshold matrix in which thresholds are arrayed, input image data into a first dot pattern representing dots recorded by a recording head, and obtains a second dot pattern representing dots recorded by each of L number of the nozzle arrays by assigning the dots of the first dot pattern to each of the nozzle array...