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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1993
Kenneth C Knowlton, Merrimack, MA (US);
Kodak Limited, Harrow, GB;
Abstract
A method enables a dithered representation of an image to be converted to a continuous tone representation of the image. This undithering method compares the regions of dithered representation with sections of dither patterns to determine an appropriate continuous tone representation from which the dithered image could have resulted. When the continuous tone representation is found the region is converted into a continuous tone representation. This procedure may be spatially iterated on a pixel by pixel basis until all of the initial representation of the image is converted into a continuous tone representation. The procedure may also be modified to account for line art. Furthermore, the procedure may be applied to produce adjustments in the size of the picture including miniaturizations and enlargements of the original image. In accordance with this application, dithered portions of the original image are redithered in a manner to produce a alternative size output image. Similarly line art portions of the original image are treated as grey scale values and redithered to produce the alternative size representations of the line art.