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2005-03-22

2005-03-22

Grant, II, Jerome (Department: 2626)

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Static presentation processing

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C358S003090

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06870641

ABSTRACT:
The technique of the present invention temporarily registers a tone error, which arises in each pixel due to determination of the dot on-off state in the pixel, in an intermediate buffer. The technique calculates diffusion errors or error divisions, which are diffused to each of non-processed pixels in a neighborhood of a preset number of pixels, from tone errors arising in the preset number of pixels, and writes the error divisions into an error buffer. One procedure diffuses each tone error into the intermediate buffer in response to every occurrence of the tone error, and subsequently writes the diffused error divisions into the error buffer. Another procedure registers tone errors arising in the preset number of pixels in the intermediate buffer and writes the error divisions, which are calculated from the registered tone errors with regard to the preset number of pixels, into the error buffer. Compared with the conventional technique that diffuses each tone error into the error buffer in response to every occurrence of the tone error, either of these procedures enables collective diffusion of the tone errors with regard to the preset number of pixels, thus ensuring higher-speed diffusion of the tone error. The error diffusion may be attained by utilizing a procedure mathematically equivalent to the least mean square error method.

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