发明名称 |
PRINTER CONTROLLER FOR A PAGEWIDTH PRINTHEAD HAVING HALFTONER AND COMPOSITOR UNIT |
摘要 |
Provided is a printer controller for controlling a pagewidth printhead. The controller includes an interface for receiving an image having a bi-level black data layer compressed in an Edge Delta and Runlength (EDRL) compression format and a continuous tone (contone) CMYK data layer. Also included is an EDRL expander and a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) decoder unit for expanding the image by simultaneously decompressing the two data layers in parallel, as well as a halftoner and compositor unit for halftoning the contone CMYK data layer into bi-level CMYK data layer and compositing the bi-level black data layer over the bi-level CMYK data layer to form a composited bi-level CMYK image. The controller further includes a processor and memory arrangement configured to control the interface, the expander and decoder unit, and the halftoner and compositor unit, and further configured to transmit the composited bi-level CMYK image to a memory buffer of the pagewidth printer via a printhead interface.
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申请公布号 |
US2008297850(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2008.12.04 |
申请号 |
US20080188175 |
申请日期 |
2008.08.07 |
申请人 |
SILVERBROOK RESEARCH PTY LTD |
发明人 |
SILVERBROOK KIA;LAPSTUN PAUL;WALMSLEY SIMON ROBERT |
分类号 |
G06K15/00;B41J2/165;B41J2/205;G06F3/12;G06K15/02;H04N1/40;H04N1/41;H04N1/50 |
主分类号 |
G06K15/00 |
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