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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1997
Kevin R Hudson, Vancouver, WA (US);
Thomas B Pritchard, Prairie, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In an error diffusion process for an inkjet printer, a look-up table is indexed by an input color tone, with entries for base output level, base level error term, threshold error term, and whatever other data may be relevant. This table may be embodied in a conventional memory or software code. The base output level corresponds to the number of ink drops to be ejected by the inkjet print for particular ink colors, the base level error term reflects the error between the input and output of the look-up table, and the threshold error term is subtracted from the total error for the pixel if the base output level is incremented by one.