Intelligent halftone mechanism
US8830531B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 17, 2011 |
| Grant date | Sep 9, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 21, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N1/405
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes an image processor to selectively rasterize a plurality of objects, and to determine if a size of a first object is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold perform a single-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold and perform a super-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is greater than the predetermined threshold.
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