IMAGE PROCESSOR WITH SMOOTH TRANSITIONING BETWEEN DITHER AND DIFFUSION PROCESSES

Patent №

US 5,014,333

Granted

1991-05-07

Filed 1988

Owner

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07222610

An image processor converts a multiple gray-level image to a bi-tonal image using both error diffusion and ordered dither to enhance image quality. The error diffusion process is attenuated smoothly as the local area intensity approaches a light or dark maximum, while the ordered dither process is attenuated smoothly as the local area high spatial frequency content increases.

AI classification

Vision0.78
Natural language0.34
AI hardware0.04
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

assignment · 54580265

Assignors

MILLER, RODNEY L., MORTON, ROGER R. A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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