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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:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1999
Fred F Cao, Richmond, CA;
Larry Hsu, Blaine, WA (US);
Daryl Gordon James, Burnaby, CA;
Kevin MacArthur, Delta, CA;
Wendy Macura, West Vancouver, CA;
Derek G Montgomery, New Westminster, CA;
John A Nelson, Bellingham, WA (US);
Stephen A Pavelick, Bellingham, WA (US);
Gary K Pringle, Surrey, CA;
Alastair M Reed, Delta, CA;
Matthew P Rektor, Bellingham, WA (US);
Horst W Schaaf, Bellingham, WA (US);
Con Verburg, Delta, CA;
Cymbolic Sciences Inc., Bellingham, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of producing a composite image on an image recording medium from first and second component images, represented by digital image data, comprising the steps of converting the digital image data of each image into electromagnetic radiation image data; and forming the composite image by successively exposing the recording medium to the electromagnetic radiation image data of the first and second images so that the images are created on the medium in overlapping relationship to form a join region. The medium is doubly exposed, first by the image data of the first image and then by the image data of the second image. The intensity of the electromagnetic radiation representing the first image is progressively ramped off in the join region and the intensity of the electromagnetic radiation representing the second image is progressively ramped on in the join region.