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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1990
Kei Sato, Atsugi, JP;
Noboru Murayama, Machida, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
An image output system includes a memory for storing multi-level information which describes each pixel of a binary image when the binary image is scanned in a main scanning direction, where the multi-level information has a first value at a black transition point where a pixel changes from white to black and has a second value at a white transition point where a pixel changes from black to white, a counter for keeping a count, a decoder for decoding the multi-level information read out from the memory, where the decoder outputs a value indicating black when the count of the counter is greater than or equal to one, and a controller for controlling an operation timing of the decoder in synchronism with reading of the multi-level information from the memory. The controller scans the memory to read the multi-level information from the memory and supplies the read multi-level information to the decoder. The decoder increments the count of the counter by one when the multi-level information has the first value and decrements the count of the counter by one when the multi-level information has the second value.