The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2018
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Yafei Mao, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Jan Allebach, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Lluis Abello Rosello, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;
Joan Vidal Fortia, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;
Robert Ulichney, Stow, MA (US);
Utpal Kumar Sarkar, Sant Cugat del Valles, ES;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
In some examples, an imaging device may include a controller including processing circuitry to detect, a first quantity of rows of pixels to be included as a first band of a contone image, process the pixels of each row of the first band in parallel raster order, detect a second quantity of rows of pixels to be included as a second band of the contone image; and process the pixels of each row of the second band in response to the completion of the pixels of the first band, where the rows of the second band are processed in parallel in serpentine order with respect to the first band.