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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:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bahram Ghaffarzadeh Kermani, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 ; H04N 1/407 ; H04N 1/409 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 ; H04N 1/407 ; H04N 1/409 ;
Abstract
The invention is a method and apparatus for printing images intended to appear to be of solid uniform color and intensity while conserving the amount of image-generating medium used to form the image. The method and apparatus form such images by continually reducing the amount of an image-generating medium deposited in a first portion of the image from a predetermined amount at an outer edge of the portion to a lesser amount at an inner edge of the first portion.