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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1985
Tsuneya Kurihara, Kodaira, JP;
Akio Yajima, Suginami, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A displayable color which is the nearest to a desired display color (the synthesis of the color of an original image and an error distributed by the preceding processing) for a particular picture element which is being processed on a scan line (or the picture element which is presently the object of processing) is selected, the displayable color is supplied to a display portion, and the error between the selected displayable color and the desired display color is distributed to those picture elements which are on un-processed scan lines among the group of picture elements in the proximity of the particular picture element by assigning a suitable weight thereto. The processing of the particular picture element may be executed in parallel with a plurality of picture elements on the scan line which is being processed.