发明名称 |
Method and system for enhancing the quality of both color and black and white images produced by ink jet and electrophotographic printers |
摘要 |
A method of gray scale printing of dots of one or more colors into pixels and in a controlled ordered sequence into a plurality of super pixels defined by a given number of said pixels, characterized in that: one or more levels of dot loading are used to achieve different values of gray level in a multiple-level gray table. This generic method is applicable to both ink jet and electrophotographic printing species of this invention. In one electrophotograpic printing species of this invention, there is disclosed a method of electrophotographic color printing which includes mixing a plurality of colors in a single plane and in dot-next-to-dot (DND) pixels within a plurality of super pixels to produce a color image, whereby the sum of the multi-color dots printed in any super pixel is limited to the number of subdivided individual pixels therein, thereby assuring dot-next-to-dot (DND) always printing of said colors in a single plane. The above method further includes varying the area of each printed color dot within each pixel of a super pixel in order to control the gray scale of a printed color image. Gray scale printing is achieved by controlling the selection of a gray table entry level number representative of one of several available entry level numbers corresponding to a plurality of different dot loadings for a corresponding plurality of differently printed super pixels.
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申请公布号 |
US5111302(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1992.05.05 |
申请号 |
US19900515946 |
申请日期 |
1990.04.27 |
申请人 |
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY |
发明人 |
CHAN, C. S.;BEARSS, JAMES G.;NELSON, TERRY M. |
分类号 |
H04N1/23;H04N1/40;H04N1/405;H04N1/46;H04N1/52 |
主分类号 |
H04N1/23 |
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