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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
May. 24, 2011
Chung-hui Kuo, Fairport, NY (US);
Hwai-tzuu Tai, Rochester, NY (US);
John T Hartman, Churchville, NY (US);
Chung-Hui Kuo, Fairport, NY (US);
Hwai-Tzuu Tai, Rochester, NY (US);
John T Hartman, Churchville, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for depositing a texture on a receiver includes a data source that provides multilevel input tint data values. A lossy compressor produces compressed multilevel tint data values from the multilevel input tint data values. A decompressor produces multilevel decompressed tint data values from the compressed multilevel tint data values. A texture memory receives those values from the decompressor and provides corresponding multilevel texture pixel data values. A print engine deposits at each of a plurality of pixel sites on the receiver an amount of texture-forming material corresponding to the respective multilevel texture pixel data value. A loader loads into the texture memory a texture set including multilevel texture pixel data values for each of a plurality of textures, and each texture in the texture set corresponds to a respective selected range of multilevel decompressed tint data value.