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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2000
Applicants:
Ravishankar Rao, White Plains, NY (US);
Gerhard Robert Thompson, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Inventors:
Ravishankar Rao, White Plains, NY (US);
Gerhard Robert Thompson, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G005/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention presents halftoning techniques for printers and solves problems related to halftoning so as to render a combination of text and image areas in a pleasing manner. An advantage of this technique is that it gradually switches from text rendering to picture rendering in a manner which is locally adaptive over small regions, (say 3×3 pixels).