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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
May. 16, 2013
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Richard I. Klaus, Ridgefield, WA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
Some of the embodiments provide a method for processing a continuous tone image, wherein each pixel of a plurality of pixels of the continuous tone image is associated with a corresponding value that represents a tone of the pixel, the method comprising for each pixel of the plurality of pixels of the continuous tone image, determining the corresponding value of the pixel that represents the tone of the pixel, wherein each pixel of a first subset of the plurality of pixels of the continuous tone image has a corresponding value that is within a first range; and generating a halftone image from the continuous tone image such that for each pixel of the first subset of the plurality of pixels of the continuous tone image, a corresponding pixel of the halftone image is generated to have a value that represents a zero optical density or a first optical density.