1992-02-14
1993-10-19
Evans, Arthur G.
395107, G06K 1500
Patent
active
052553515
ABSTRACT:
A pulse-width modulation device for controlling shapes of dots printed out by a printer by regulating shapes of pulses of pulse-width modulation signals, which respectively represent gray levels of pixels of input image, according to code signals respectively indicating shapes of pulses of pulse-width modulation signals, each of which has a duration composed of time slots respectively corresponding to bits of image data representing a gray level of a pixel. The pulse-width modulation device is provided with a code converter for converting image data corresponding to each pixel of an input image into a predetermined code indicating a shape of a pulse of a corresponding pulse-width modulation signal and for outputting a code signal representing the predetermined code. The indicated shape of the pulse is formed by making the corresponding pulse modulation signal have a high level at a predetermined number of time slots thereof, which are serially counted from the time slot corresponding to the most significant bit of the image data or from the time slot corresponding to the least significant bit of the image data according to a gray level of each pixel. The pulse-width modulation device is further provided with a pulse generating circuit for receiving the code signal and for generating the pulse of the predetermined pulse-width modulation signal according to the code in response to a predetermined clock signal.
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Ichitou Toshikatsu
Namiki Kazunori
Takanashi Itsuo
Yamamura Takashi
Evans Arthur G.
Victor Company of Japan Ltd.
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