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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:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
May. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takahide Hirawa, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395109 ; 358455 ; 358457 ; 358298 ; 382237 ;
Abstract
The present invention generates a first threshold value constituting a first threshold pattern and a second threshold value constituting a second threshold pattern. The first threshold pattern is to reproduce a relatively large number of tones and is relatively small in size, while the second threshold pattern has a relatively small number of tones and is relatively large in size. An arithmetic operation is carried out on the first threshold value and the second threshold value so as to generate a third threshold value. The third threshold value is compared with an image signal to generate a dot signal representing a halftone dot.