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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. 04, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/21 ; H04N 1/40 ; H04N 1/417 ; G06K 9/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/21 ; H04N 1/40 ; H04N 1/417 ; G06K 9/36 ;
Abstract
A half-tone image is produced by scanning a plurality of input points of an original, outputting a screened image having a plurality of black and white dots and transmitting signals representing the screened image to a marking device. The size of each plurality of dots is determined from a recursive relationship between a value of a current input point, a previous output and an error representing a difference between a value of a previous input point and the previous output.