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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10105907 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 19, 2016

Method of printing an object having a surface of varying height

Applicant:

Oce-technologies B.v., Venlo, NL;

Inventor:

Cédric T. Valade, Venlo, NL;

Assignee:

OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V., Venlo, NL;

Attorney:

Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Satish Rampuria

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2018.01); B29C 67/00 (2017.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/10 (2006.01); G05B 19/4099 (2006.01); G06F 7/58 (2006.01); H04N 1/54 (2006.01); B29C 64/112 (2017.01); B29C 64/386 (2017.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 67/0088 (2013.01); B29C 64/112 (2017.08); B29C 64/386 (2017.08); G05B 19/4099 (2013.01); G06F 7/58 (2013.01); G06K 15/105 (2013.01); H04N 1/00827 (2013.01); H04N 1/54 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12); G05B 2219/35134 (2013.01); G05B 2219/49007 (2013.01); G06F 2207/58 (2013.01);
Abstract

A printing system and method of printing an object having a surface of varying height, by a printer configured to print a number of pass images on top of each other in a number of passes, including: deriving from an object image a number of pass images to be printed on top of each other, including: establishing pass pixels of the pass images for which pass pixels a pass pixel height is defined, where a sum of the defined heights of a sequence of pass pixels that corresponds to a respective pixel of the object image equals the height of that pixel of the object image; and printing the pass images on top of each other. An amount of printed material that is printed per printed pass pixel is varied in accordance with the defined pass pixel heights. The pass pixels heights are selected, based on random data, from a respective set of at least two positive pass pixel heights.

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