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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2013
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Sergio Puigardeu Aramendia, Barcelona, ES;
Angel Martinez Barambio, Barcelona, ES;
Luis Garcia, Les Roquetes, ES;
M. Isabel Borrell Bayona, Barcelona, ES;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Image processing transforms input multi-level image data into output image data having a smaller number of levels (the input and output image data represents images formed of cells). The image processing distributes quantization error of a target cell of the image to neighbor cells in proportions determined by a set of weights. The distribution excludes neighbor cells whose data level is less than a threshold value from receiving distributed quantization error, or allows just a fraction of the quantization error to be distributed to such neighbor cells.