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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:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Takafumi Ohkubo, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345147 ; 345467 ;
Abstract
A gray scale reduction method or apparatus reduces required memory capacity for storing gray scale as compared with conventional gray scale reduction methods. The gray scale reduction apparatus performs quantization error scattering of input gray level data of an input image. Data produced by the quantization error scattering is filtered after completing the quantization error scattering.