Device for high speed two beam printing with parallel processing of image data including density conversion and enhancement
US6211967A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 17, 1998 |
| Grant date | Apr 3, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 17, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06K2215/0077
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An image processing device capable of writing two lines at the same time and applicable to an apparatus using digital image data is disclosed. A data bus width control section controls the bus width of input data. A temporary storage temporarily stores data input thereto. A data control section controls the reading and writing of data out of the temporary storage. A two line section produces two lines for writing two lines of input data at the same time. A data converting section converts parallel data to serial data. A multilevel section transforms an input bilevel image to a multilevel image. A rate varying section varies the rate of multilevel data input thereto. A data selecting section selects processed multilevel image data. A register control section executes register control with at least data stored in a storage included in the multilevel section. Data conversion and transformation to the multilevel image data are effected before the data output from the temporary storage are output from the data selecting section.
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