METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HALFTONE RENDERING OF A GRAY SCALE IMAGE USING A BLUE NOISE MASK
Patent №
US 5,111,310
Granted
1992-05-05
Filed 1990
Owner
RESEARCH CORPORATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. A NOT-FOR-PROFIT, NON-STOCK CORPORATION OF DE
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AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
07622056
A method of and system for rendering a halftone image of a gray scale image by utilizing a pixel-by-pixel comparison of the gray scale image against a blue noise mask is disclosed in which the gray scale image is scanned on a pixel-by-pixel basis and compared on a pixel-by-pixel basis to an array of corresponding data points contained in a blue noise mask stored in a PROM or computer memory in order to produce the desired halftoned image. Both digital and optically implemented halftone methods are disclosed.
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RESEARCH CORPORATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. A NOT-FOR-PROFIT, NON-STOCK CORPORATION OF DE
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Assignors
PARKER, KEVIN J., MITSA, THEOPHANO
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