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Multi-bit output sampled threshold array halftoner
   
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US Patent 7359091
Issued Date
April 15, 2008
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Xerox Reference No. D/A0639A system and method for improving xerographic halftoning by magnifying a threshold array, interpolating the in-between values, enabling multiple thresholds to be accessed simultaneously and presented to multiple comparators, to cause multi-bit output. A threshold array is sampled at distinct locations separated by the sparse sampling distance to allow warping of the threshold array dots by adjusting the sampling distance in small, fractional portions (deltas) of the magnified distance. By adding more thresholds, amplitude or intensity modulation is used to move dot edges in a process direction for further flexibility in printing irrational or warpable screens.
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Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, CT)
Published
April 15, 2008
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10/248,384
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January 15, 2003
US Classification
358/3.06   358/3.01 358/3.1 358/3.13
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H04N   1/40   (20060101)   G06K   15/00   (20060101)   H04N   1/405   (20060101)  
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358/3.01   358/3.06   358/3.09   358/3.1   358/3.11   358/3.13   358/3.17  
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