Method and apparatus for generating halftone images by discrete

Details Method and apparatus for generating halftone images by discrete Method and apparatus for generating halftone images by discrete

1993-09-08

1995-06-06

Boudreau, Leo H.

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Natural color facsimile

Specific image-processing circuitry

358429, 382298, G06K 900

Patent

active

054227429

ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for automatic high-speed generation of digital angled halftone screens, specially suited for obtaining screens approximating the irrational angles which are generally required by high-quality color reproduction. The method enables color separations to be generated which minimize Moire effects, interferences and artifacts by applying discrete one-to-one rotations to digital halftone screens of the required period in order to reach the final screen angle. Dither tiles incorporating assemblies of the basic screen element are rotated by one-to-one discrete rotation and transformed into a new type of dither array, the scanning dither array. The scanning dither array is composed both of dither thresholds and of displacement vectors, providing the means to scan the dither array at image generation time. Several different discrete one-to-one rotation variants are proposed: a small angle rotation technique valid for a subset of rational rotation angles, a rigid band technique and an improved band technique valid for all rational rotation angles and a technique based on discrete shearing transformations. The high-quality of the so rotated dither tile is due to the fact that discrete one-to-one rotation preserves the exact number of elementary cells per screen element and their exact dither threshold values.

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patent: 4350996 (1982-09-01), Rosenfeld

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