IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: NAKANE HIROYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 26.12.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide an image formation device which can adjust a thickness of a graphic character and an image formation method therefor, and a program.SOLUTION: An image formation device 110, which processes a printing job comprising PDL, generates an object for each drawing command unit which is included in the PDL at a PDL analysis part 202, and when the generated object is a graphic object, performs rendering of the object at a thickening part 205, and generates an image A which is a mask image. Further, the device generates images B to D in which an image A is shifted in an x direction, a y direction, a z direction respectively by one pixel at the thickening part 205, and performs logic synthesis of the images A to D, thereby generating a final image 750. Thereafter, the device converts the final image 750 into intermediate data at an intermediate data generation part 203, and performs RIP processing of the intermediate data.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 【課題】グラフィック文字の太さを調整可能な画像形成装置及びその画像形成方法、並びにプログラムを提供する。【解決手段】ＰＤＬからなる印刷ジョブを処理する画像形成装置１１０は、ＰＤＬ解析部２０２でＰＤＬに含まれる描画コマンド単位毎にオブジェクトを生成し、生成されたオブジェクトがグラフィックオブジェクトである場合は太らせ処理部２０５でそのオブジェクトをレンダリングしてマスクイメージである画像Ａを生成する。さらに太らせ処理部２０５で画像Ａをｘ方向、ｙ方向、ｘｙ方向の夫々に１ピクセルずつずらした画像Ｂ〜Ｄを生成し、画像Ａ〜Ｄを論理合成して最終画像７５０を生成する。その後、中間データ生成部２０３で最終画像７５０を中間データに変換し、その中間データのＲＩＰ処理を行なう。【選択図】図３