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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1992

Filed:

Feb. 05, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:

Lindsay W MacDonald, Bedfordshire, GB;

Richard A Kirk, Hertfordshire, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 17 ; 382 18 ; 358 80 ;
Abstract

Apparatus for generating an array of control data, the array having a number of pixels each of which corresponds to a respective pixel in an image, the apparatus comprising a first store (100) for storing the image data; a second store (17) for storing the control data; and a processor which, for each control data array pixel generates and stores in the second store (17) a control value in accordance with a predetermined algorithm which defines the control value as a function of the corresponding image pixel color components and the corresponding color component(s) of the target colors, wherein the generated control values can be ordered on a scale of at least three value classes.


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