US 11,691,434 B2
Apparatus and method
Hiroaki Ogawa, Kanagawa (JP); Yuki Omagari, Tokyo (JP); and Akitoshi Yamada, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/481,051.
Claims priority of application No. JP2020-164107 (JP), filed on Sep. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0097365 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/32 (2006.01); B41J 2/355 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/32 (2013.01) [B41J 2/355 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a generation unit configured to generate image data for recording by a forming apparatus configured to form an image on a forming member using a print head configured to apply energy to the forming member, the forming member including a plurality of color development layers each having a different color development characteristic and configured to cause color development depending on the applied energy; and
a multiplexing unit configured to perform multiplexing processing to generate recording data in which predetermined information to be recognized by a reading apparatus as information different from an image to be recorded on the forming member is embedded in the image data representing the image,
wherein the multiplexing unit generates the recording data so that the predetermined information is recorded by the color development of at least the color development layer that causes color development of a dot of one pixel in a shortest time among the plurality of color development layers in a case where the print head applies the energy to the forming member, and
wherein the multiplexing unit generates the recording data so that the color development layers other than the color development layer in which the predetermined information is to be recorded also cause the color development based on the predetermined information.