METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE AND RECORDING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form an image data enhanced in halftone reproducibility by arranging a means which corrects overlap record information selected by a selecting means on the basis of a density change estimated by an estimation means and determines record information for recording, etc. SOLUTION: An image signal CV input at an image input part 1 is input to a gamma correction process 11 and converted to a density signal CD indicating a density with reference to a gamma correction conversion table 4a. The image density signal CD after the gamma correction is stored in a page memory area of an image process work area of a RAM 5. A target pixel selection process 12 selects one pixel to be processed in the page memory area of the RAM 5 and obtains the density data CD of the pixel. An ink kind distribution process 13 selects a combination candidate of kinds of ink to express a density of the target pixel with reference to an ink kind distribution table 4b on the basis of a density value (CD value) of the target pixel selected at the target pixel selection process 12.