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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2023
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Luke Charles Ingram, Summerville, SC (US);
Anthony Wayne Baker, Gilbertsville, PA (US);
Steven A. Dorris, Willard, MO (US);
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A computing system includes an input sensor, a processor, and a memory storing executable instructions that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to collect input data related to at least a portion of an object from the input sensor, generate a UV coordinate map based on the input data, use a predetermined process ink density lookup table to produce an ink density bitmap corresponding to the UV coordinate map, the ink density bitmap including process ink densities for each bit in the ink density bitmap, produce and output a dithering of bits of the ink density bitmap to thereby generate dithered image pixel data, and compile and output a control plan, based on the dithered image pixel data, to control a printing array to print an image on a contoured surface of the object.