Referring to Table 15, when a direction (angle) of an edge is determined, a case in which the intensity of a current pixel (C) is less than the intensities of two neighboring pixels forming an edge or a case in which the intensity of the current pixel (C) is less than the intensity of one neighboring pixel are set to a single category (Category 1).
When a direction (angle) of an edge is determined, a case in which the intensity of the current pixel (C) is greater than the intensities of two neighboring pixels forming an edge or a case in which the intensity of the current pixel (C) is greater than the intensity of one neighboring pixel are set to a single category (Category 2).