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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.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1985
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Karl M St John, Huntington Station, NY (US);
Nicholas J Reeber, Hauppauge, NY (US);
Sheldon J Kerbel, Merrick, NY (US);
Assignee:
Hazeltine Corporation, Commack, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358 76 ;
Abstract
An ink usage estimator signal is developed representing the amount of ink required to print on a receptive media a portion of an image which is on film, such as a color separation. A video signal representing the portion of the selected image is gated by area pulses during periods of the video signal which define the selected portion of the image. The gated video signal is averaged to develop the ink usage estimator signal, which represents the amount of ink required to print the selected portion of the image.