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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. 22, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2001
Applicants:
Jiebo Luo, Pittsford, NY (US);
Qing Yu, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 (2006.01); H04N 1/405 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for multitone processing an N level digital image to produce an M level digital image wherein M<N, includes the steps of: determining M reconstruction levels based on the gray level distribution of the N level image; and applying multilevel dithering to the N level digital image using the M reconstruction levels to produce the M level digital image.