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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2009
Applicants:
Ilia Vladimirovich Safonov, Moscow, RU;
Sergey Yur'evich Yakovlev, Moscow, RU;
Inventors:
Ilia Vladimirovich Safonov, Moscow, RU;
Sergey Yur'evich Yakovlev, Moscow, RU;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of forming characters for microprint and an image forming apparatus using the same. The method of forming characters for microprint includes determining for every image character a size font taking into account the rules to create small prints, rasterizing a character into a bitmap, skeletonizing the bitmap, reformatting the bitmap maintaining a character legibility, storing the bitmap, and forming halftoning cells from the reformatted bitmap.