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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005

Filed:

Dec. 26, 2001
Applicants:

Norman W. Zeck, Webster, NY (US);

Peter A. Crean, Penfield, NY (US);

Inventors:

Norman W. Zeck, Webster, NY (US);

Peter A. Crean, Penfield, NY (US);

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K015/00 ; H04N001/40 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Halftone generating methods and systems convert continuous tone anti-aliased image data to halftone image data using halftoning techniques that efficiently use memory resources. One of a plurality of Holladay counters is selected and the address bits from the selected Holladay counter are output to a look-up table that efficiently stores various halftone screens. Halftone image data is then output. If necessary, the halftone image data is unpacked and replicated as required depending on the resolution requirements of the halftone screen.


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