Patent · US Expired

Method for enhancing printing quality

US6744532B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 31, 1999
Grant dateJun 1, 2004
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Expiry dateAug 31, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K15/02
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for enhancing printing quality to process the picture and textual data in an image properly such that both the picture and textual data can be clearly printed. The inventive method can treat the image data to be printed in a real time fashion and while the entire image data is not required. In the inventive method, the difference of gray level is reallocated by error diffusion method to render the edge more smooth and clear.

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