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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1989
Toshiharu Kurosawa, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyoshi Tsuchiya, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuji Maruyama, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuo Nakazato, Tokyo, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image signal processing apparatus for converting input signal values representing density levels of successive picture elements of an image to corresponding bi-level signal values, whereby a conversion error for an object picture element is apportioned among a set of unprocessed adjacent picture elements, to update respective values of accumulated error. Each input signal value is compensated, prior to conversion, by a value derived from the total accumulated errors of the object picture element and these adjacent picture elements, while the conversion error is derived by subtracting from the bi-level output value a value obtained by compensating the input signal by the accumulated error for the object picture element.