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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2007
Ian Geoffrey Combes, Roselands, AU;
Edward James Iskenderian, Toongabbie, AU;
Vincent Groarke, Cork, IE;
Joseph Leigh Belbin, Summer Hill, AU;
Michael Warwick Chipman, Mona Vale, AU;
Ian Geoffrey Combes, Roselands, AU;
Edward James Iskenderian, Toongabbie, AU;
Vincent Groarke, Cork, IE;
Joseph Leigh Belbin, Summer Hill, AU;
Michael Warwick Chipman, Mona Vale, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method () is disclosed of generating a representation of a page () to be rendered to a raster image () of pixels. The page () comprises one or more graphical objects (and), arranged in a rendering order. Each the object (and) comprises one or more object edges and an associated fill. The method () comprises decomposing the objects (and) into a plurality of fillmap edges (, and) defining disjoint regions (, and) of the page. The method () further comprises setting a reference from at least one fillmap edge (, and) to a sequence comprising a plurality of fills to be composited to generate the values for all pixels within the defined region (, and).