ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,217, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Storage medium, image processing apparatus, and image processing method" was invented by Akitoshi Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinichi Miyazaki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to maintain density as an area as compared to a conventional technology even in a case where the quantization target is an image of a high-frequency pattern, such as a hatching pattern, with a halftone value to be subjected to an error diffusion process. An embodiment of the present invention is a program for causing a computer to function as an ...