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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:
Apr. 10, 2012

Filed:

Apr. 10, 2009
Applicants:

Connie Purdum, Rochester, NY (US);

Lalit Keshay Mestha, Fairport, NY (US);

Martin Maltz, Rochester, NY (US);

Frederick J. Ramsey, Webster, NY (US);

Alvaro Enrique Gil, Rochester, NY (US);

Inventors:

Connie Purdum, Rochester, NY (US);

Lalit Keshay Mestha, Fairport, NY (US);

Martin Maltz, Rochester, NY (US);

Frederick J. Ramsey, Webster, NY (US);

Alvaro Enrique Gil, Rochester, NY (US);

Assignee:

Xerox Corpoartion, Norwalk, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/60 (2006.01); G03G 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A printer configured to adjust gloss appearance of images includes a marking engine configured to render an image on a substrate from input image data; and a controller configured to: (i) correlate a minimum luminance value to be used by the printer based on a gloss selection; (ii) determine a black point compensation function based on the correlated minimum luminance value; and (iii) adjust luminance values for input image data using the determined black point compensation function. A method to adjust gloss appearance of images is also provided.


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