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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Webb, Lane Cove, AU;
William C Naylor, Jr, Mount Kuring, AU;
Assignee:
Canon, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382252 ; 358465 ; 382234 ; 382304 ;
Abstract
In order to display continuous tone colour image on a discrete colour level display, methods of halftoning must be used. The high display rate of colour output devices means that serial methods of real time halftoning are difficult to use. A method and apparatus are disclosed for reducing the speed with which a halftoning method must be performed by performing the halftoning of an output image in parallel by simultaneously error diffusing more than one line of input at a time.