US Patent Issued to Canon on May 13 for "Image processing apparatus to improve dot dispersibility with N-gradation multi-valued data, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,773, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus to improve dot dispersibility with N-gradation multi-valued data, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshinori Mizoguchi (Tokyo), Akitoshi Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hisashi Ishikawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination unit determines whether a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of pixel values of a plurality of pixels in a region of interest in N-gradation multi-valued data, where Nless than=4, representing the pixel values of the plurality of pixels is less than a determinat...