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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2020
Applicant:
Agfa Offset Bv, Mortsel, BE;
Inventor:
Rudolf Bartels, Mortsel, BE;
Assignee:
Agfa Offset BV, Mortsel, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/405 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); B41N 1/14 (2006.01); B41N 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/1881 (2013.01); B41N 1/14 (2013.01); B41N 3/003 (2013.01); H04N 1/405 (2013.01); G06K 15/1836 (2013.01); H04N 1/4055 (2013.01); H04N 1/4056 (2013.01); H04N 1/4057 (2013.01);
Abstract
A halftone raster image, suitable for rendering a continuous-tone image, which comprises a plurality of regularly tiled spiral dots. Said spiral dots comprise (i) image pixels arranged as a first arc () or as a plurality of arcs which together represent a first spiral (), and (ii) non-image pixels arranged as a second arc () or as a plurality of arcs which together represent a second spiral (), wherein neighbour halftone dots from said plurality of regularly tiled halftone dots represent a double spiral or triple spiral.