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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:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Terrence M Shannon, Kuna, ID (US);
Michael G Fuchs, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382237 ; 358456 ; 358457 ;
Abstract
The present invention reduces the amount of data sent to a printer from a printer driver. Data reduction is achieved by using a dither matrix that is designed to produce compressible images, then using a lossless compression scheme that matches the dither matrix.