System and method for improved page composition
US7672521B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 30, 2004 |
| Grant date | Mar 2, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 3, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N1/3871
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for page composition in a processor-controlled printing system. Formatted image data is first received to a processor, the data representing image elements to be merged into a new document. At least one compressed cell describing each of the page elements is generated based on the formatted image data. A compressed cell contains pixilated image data of a predetermined pixel size. An element table including at least one cell pointer for each page element is generated. Each cell pointer includes a memory location and a cell type for each compressed cell that is pointed to by the generated element table. A merged page is composed based on the cell type entries of the element tables. A page composition system and a computer readable media having computer instructions for implementing the method of page composition are also provided.
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