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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:
Sep. 10, 1996

Filed:

Dec. 09, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:

Paul J Perowne, Herts, GB;

George C Manley, Herts, GB;

Richard A Kirk, Herts, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358462 ; 358533 ;
Abstract

A method of generating an output device control signal having portions representing the content of pixels of an image including at least two types of image content, in which data defining the content of each pixel of the image at a lower, first resolution and a higher, second resolution are passed respectively through a pair of processing paths, one corresponding to each image content type. A binary control signal is generated from the first resolution data in the first path by applying a stochastic screen. The binary control signal resulting from the stochastic screen is adapted to conform with the data at the second resolution, and the output device control signal is generated by combining data from the two processing paths.


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