Streamlined real-time printmask revision, and printing-element data system, to circumvent element malfunction
US6771379B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 23, 2001 |
| Grant date | Aug 3, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 6, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06K2215/111
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Computation and data-storage are minimized in both accounting for element condition and reallocation of print tasks away from subnominal elements. An accounting function maintains an element-condition tabulation partly in a cumulative form—representing element stability directly without later interpretation. A reallocation distributes print burden from a subnominal element to plural other elements without making a new mask. Rather, entries for a poor element in a current mask are shifted prospectively and quickly to other elements serving the same pixel rows.
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