Encoding method for deferred anti-aliasing

Details Encoding method for deferred anti-aliasing Encoding method for deferred anti-aliasing

1995-05-25

1997-07-08

Coles, Sr., Edward L.

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Natural color facsimile

Color correction

358539, 358534, 358445, 382166, G03F 308, H04N 146

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056467516

ABSTRACT:
A method for increasing the speed of color conversion from a plurality of color spaces to a single color space by reducing the number of color pixels by a factor of two prior to the color conversion step. This pixel reduction constitutes a lossy data compression scheme which takes advantage of the advance knowledge that the pixels will later undergo anti-aliasing by averaging subsequent to the color conversion. First the pixels are grouped into pairs, and one pixel of each pair is eliminated to form a pseudo halfpixel. The eliminated pixel is replaced with a tag identifying either the previous, current or next pseudo halfpixel. Then each pseudo halfpixel is color converted. Finally the indicated previous, current or next pseudo halfpixel, now color converted, is averaged with the current pseudo halfpixel to form a halfpixel, which is then averaged with the halfpixel above or below it to form an anti-aliased full pixel which can be displayed. The color conversion time of this process is roughly halved since half of the pixels are eliminated before the color conversion step and then effectively added back in after the color conversion step.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5046119 (1991-09-01), Hoffert et al.
patent: 5359438 (1994-10-01), Maeda

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