Dr. Ing. Rudolf Hell Gmbh

Ing. Rudolf Hell Gmbh

Karl R Scheuter

Gerhard Fischer

A method and apparatus for minimizing errors in digital processing of electrical signals whereby a digital input signal is divided into a digital useful signal having a lower resolution than the input signal and into a digital error signal having lower resolution than the input signal. A deviation of the useful signal is reproduced from the input signal and a check is performed to see whether the sum error of a plurality of successive useful signal values crosses a prescribed upper or lower threshold. When a threshold is crossed, an error value of the useful signal which comes closest to this threshold is identified and the useful signal and the error signal of this signal value are corrected such that the sum error no longer crosses the threshold.

Method and apparatus for minimizing errors in the digital processing of

A method for producing printing forms by way of irregularly-distributed printing points provides that an image original be opto-electrically scanned across individual surface elements with a desired detail resolution. A gray scale corresponding to the scanning signal is assigned to each surface element and surface elements of the same or approximately the same gradation are combined into sub-surfaces and the individual sub-surfaces are reproduced in accordance with their gradation value by way of a plurality of statistically-distributed printing points whose overall surface coverage within the sub-surface corresponds to the gradation of the sub-surface, whereby the combination of the sub-surfaces is undertaken in accordance with the actual boundaries of the same or approximately the same gradation within the original image.

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Darmstadt, Germany

Karl R Scheuter