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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2011
Seong Jun Park, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Jan Allebach, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Mark Shaw, Meridian, ID (US);
George Henry Kerby, Boise, ID (US);
Victor D Loewen, Eagle, ID (US);
Kurt Robert Bengtson, Eagle, ID (US);
Seong Jun Park, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Jan Allebach, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Mark Shaw, Meridian, ID (US);
George Henry Kerby, Boise, ID (US);
Victor D Loewen, Eagle, ID (US);
Kurt Robert Bengtson, Eagle, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for creating an image to be printed is provided. A first halftone pattern and a second halftone pattern for respective first and second periodic clustered dot halftone regions of the image are selected. The regions have respective frequencies and one of the frequencies is higher than the other frequency. A transition region is determined. The transition region includes a boundary between the two regions and includes additional portions of the two regions beyond the boundary. The two halftone patterns are blended with each other in the transition region based on a blending ratio of the two halftones where the blending ratio changes as a function of distance between the edges of the transition region.