发明名称 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUANTIZING A COLOR IMAGE THROUGH A SINGLE DITHER MATRIX
摘要 This invention relates to a color image dithering method and apparatus for producing an output point (Fig. 12, 41) in an output color space (42) corresponding to a selected vertex (V, 0, 0, 0) in a tetrahedron of a three- dimensional cubic subinterval (40) of a pixel point in a source color space (42). The device includes a truncating logic (Fig. 11, 182) for truncating a value of a pixel having a point in a color space of the source image, for locating a three-dimensional cubic subinterval containing the point (41); a random number generator (184) for generating a random number as a threshold value for dithering each pixel value of the source image; a first comparator (186) for locating a tetrahedron having four vertices in the three-dimension al cubic subinterval that contains the pixel point; a second logic (188) for assigning a probability density corresponding to each of the vertex; a secon d comparator (190) for selecting a vertex provided by the threshold value through an inverse probability distribution function derived from the probability densities of said vertices; and a third logic (192) for locating an output point in an output color space corresponding to the selected verte x.
申请公布号 CA2399732(A1) 申请公布日期 2001.08.09
申请号 CA20012399732 申请日期 2001.01.31
申请人 PICTOLOGIC, INC. 发明人 LIN, FREDERICK;CHAN, SHULTZ
分类号 G09G3/20;G09G5/02;H04N1/52;(IPC1-7):G09G5/04;G09G5/36 主分类号 G09G3/20
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