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Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1976

Filed:

Jan. 06, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:

Michael J Perriman, Boreham Wood, EN;

Richard M Gascoigne, Kingston-upon-Thames, EN;

Peter C Pugsley, Pinner, EN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358 75 ; 178 / ; 178 / ; 235186 ;
Abstract

In the reproduction of a half-tone image, x and y pulse trains are generated in synchronism with the production of image-representing signals resulting from scanning the image to be reproduced; the x pulse train is multiplied in frequency by first and second factors and the y pulse train by third and fourth factors, all factors being irrational or nearly irrational and being different functions of the screen angle selected for printing; the first and third pulse trains are accumulated and combined and the second and fourth pulse trains are separately accumulated and combined, the resulting signals being applied to a function generator which produces a predetermined screen pattern signal which is a periodic two-dimensional function of the position of the scanned image element in the two mutually perpendicular directions.


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