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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1990
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An image signal representing image information containing a periodic pattern is processed before it is broken up into halftone dots. First, the image information is averaged to generate an unsharpness signal, and then the unsharpness signal is processed for edge sharpness to generate a sharpness signal. Thereafter, a halftone-dot image is generated from the sharpness signal. More specifically, the sharpness signal Sij* is generated from a first unsharpness signal Uij which is produced by averaging the image information and a second unsharpness signal Uij which is produced by averaging the first unsharpness signal Uij, according to the equation:
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