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Half-tone image generator using white noise source

US5006938A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 28, 1989
Grant dateApr 9, 1991
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Expiry dateDec 28, 2009

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/4051
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A half-tone binarization generator that produces high-quality half-tone binarization images by converting multilevel brightness information into sets of black and white bitonal data by adding noise to the multilevel brightness information and using a thresholding technique.

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