Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Specific signal processing circuitry
Patent
1987-12-17
1989-07-18
Goldberg, E. A.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Specific signal processing circuitry
364523, 340802, H04N 140
Patent
active
048498220
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is directed to a method and to an apparatus for electronic page montage for reproduction technology, whereby the recording of the individual pages on a recording medium occurs with a recorder which comprises an electronic screening unit having a multi-track recording element with a resolution which is finer then the resolution of the image information, whereby, before recording, the entire end page is divided into sub-areas within which various motifs, such as image, text or artificially generated image information respectively supplied from different signal sources are recorded according to a layout, and are recorded with the recorder having the finer resolution.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In reproduction technology, combinations of images, letterings, signets, etc., are composed to form an end page having arbitrary arrangement and overlap according to a layout. Other than in a conventional way, such combinations were previously only executed off-line with full electronic systems, involving considerable time expenditure, whereby the individual images or text parts are present completely stored and are individually transferred into a short-time memory according to the layout. In this respect, for example, see DE-A No. 33 42 947 or DE-C No. 21 61 038 (Equivalent UK No. 1,407,487). How such combinations are implemented in detail may be seen, for example, in DE-C No. 21 37 676 (which is equivalent to U.S. Pat. No. 3,904,816).
DE-A No. 32 23 730 (which is equivalent to U.S. Pat. No. 4,496,989) discloses a method for composing and reproducing a picture and a letter using image signals and letter signals for application in an image reproducing machine wherein a switching between image signal and script signal occurs. An electronic screening unit comprising a multi-track recording element having a plurality of write tracks is provided, the individual screen points being generated during image recording such that the individual write tracks of the multi-track recording element are separately driven. Such a screening unit is also disclosed, for example, in DE-A No. 21 07 738 (equivalent to U.S. Pat. No. 3,725,574).
The screening unit of FIG. 8 in DE-A No. 32 23 730 (which is equivalent to U.S. Pat. No. 4,496,989) is composed of a control unit in which drive signals for the individual write tracks are generated, these drive signals determining whether the light beam of a write track is turned on. The image information is reproduced by screen points which are formed as a coherent spot composed of a plurality of parallel write tracks The text information is recorded in that the individual write tracks are trace-unblanked and blanked at the contours of the letters for generating the letters. In order to obtain a combination of text and image information, OR gates are provided in the control lines which extend from the control unit to the individual write tracks. Dependent on the drive of these OR gates, thus, screen points or pure black-and-light information are recorded by the recording element. To this end, one group of the inputs of the OR gates are connected to the control unit of the screening unit; the other group of inputs of the OR gates supplies the text information. Dependent on which group of inputs is activated, thus, image or text is recorded.
The time when the OR gates switch determines the topical limitation between the image parts and text parts. With this circuit arrangement, thus, it is only possible to select between a text and an image or, respectively, an image part since the OR gates only allow these two selection possibilities.
In reproduction technology, however, there is often a desire to switch not only between an image and text, but it is frequently required to combine a plurality of images or image parts with a plurality of text parts or individual letters or texts having image content, gradation information or with constant tint value. This, however, is not possible with the arrangement disclosed in DE-A No. 3
REFERENCES:
patent: 4476497 (1984-10-01), Oshikoshi et al.
Donovan L.
Dr. -Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH
Goldberg E. A.
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