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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Gideon Amir, Gan-Yavne, IL;
Noam Shaham, San Jose, CA (US);
Yoram Arnon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lenny Ridel, Hod-Hasharon, IL;
Gideon Amir, Gan-Yavne, IL;
Noam Shaham, San Jose, CA (US);
Yoram Arnon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lenny Ridel, Hod-Hasharon, IL;
Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V., Maastricht, NL;
Abstract
A page composition method for composing a page from elements in pixelized form for bit-mapping or half-toning prior to printing including; (a) determining the positions of the elements on a printed page; (b) dividing the page into bands; (c) serially transferring pixel data values for sections of bands corresponding to the portions of respective elements in a band, seriatim to a buffer memory, wherein the data from the portion of one element in a band is completely read prior to reading data corresponding to the portion of a second element in the band; (d) writing the data to a buffer memory as it is read; and (e) transferring the data from the buffer memory when all the data corresponding to all portions of all elements in the band is written in the buffer memory.