Image registration method

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1996-06-25

1998-06-02

Frahm, Eric

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Facsimile

Recording apparatus

358406, 395109, 382293, H04N 140, H04N 100, G06F 1500, G06K 932

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057609144

ABSTRACT:
An electronic image registration method for use with a high-speed raster printer controller provides run-time registration of an image which is defined by a continuous stream of rasterized bit-map data. The method includes the steps of: (a) detecting a misalignment of the image with respect to a form, and producing a registration value in response to the detected misalignment; (b) acquiring a present block of the bit-map data from the stream; (c) shifting the present block of the bit-map data a number of bits according to a shift count generated from the registration value produced in step (a) to create a present contiguous set of shifted bit-map data bits and a present contiguous set of spill-over bit-map data bits; (d) storing the present set of spill-over bits; (e) combining the present set of shifted bits with a previous contiguous set of spill-over bit-map data bits to create a present registered block of bit-map data; and (e) dispatching the present registered block to a print engine. The method preferably operates in hardware positioned between the rendering section of the raster printer controller and the print engine, thus allowing the registration to be performed in real-time without slowing the raster printer controller's processing speeds.

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