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Automatic calibration of halftones

US5649073A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 28, 1995
Grant dateJul 15, 1997
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Expiry dateDec 28, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/4078
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A calibration system, for calibrating a printer response to halftone images directed thereto, includes a test pattern, stored in a memory, providing a plurality of samples of combinations of printed spots, printable on a media by the printer; a gray measuring device, to derive a gray measurement of the samples of printed spots; a calibration processor correlating gray measurements with a particular combination of spots, and deriving parameters describing the printer response to the particular combination; generating at least one gray image correction, including a set of correction values selected in accordance with said the described printer response, and a calibration memory, storing the generated halftone patterns.

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