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On-the-fly halftone image generation

US8885223B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 9, 2013
Grant dateNov 11, 2014
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Expiry dateSep 9, 2033

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/4058
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method comprising forming an array comprising a plurality of microcells, each microcell of the plurality of microcells including a plurality of pixels; for each pixel in each of the plurality of microcells, assigning (i) a respective pixel offset factor that is associated with a relative position of the pixel in the respective microcell, and (ii) a respective microcell offset factor that is associated with an index of the respective microcell; and for each pixel in each of the plurality of microcells, determining a respective final offset factor that is based at least in part on the respective pixel offset factor and the respective microcell offset factor. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

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