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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 1989
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1988
Scott Nowell, Brookline, NH (US);
Alden Research Foundation, Brockton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of recording the varying gray shades of a facsimile signal line by line with a thermal print head having a linear arrary of heating elements sorts out the individual pixels of a facsimile signal line according to their gray shade in a scale of 1 to 16, and to their line position, into a number of separate series of pixels, each series representing a different gray shade. The 16 different series are stored and read out of a memory in their separate series, and as the separate series are applied to a thermal print head the marking energy is varied 16 times from series to series corresponding to the gray scale of the original signal. Thus 16 successive series of pixels are marked on the same line of a thermosensitive paper to reproduce all the gray shades.