DIGITAL HALFTONING

In one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for producing a halftone of a source image. The halftone includes halftone pixels. The halftone pixels are suitable for containing halftone dots. The method select s glyphs corresponding to intensities of regions (e.g., pixels) in the sour...

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Hauptverfasser: BYBELL, DANIEL P, SCHUH, DANA F, THORNTON, JAY E
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Sprache:eng ; fre
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Zusammenfassung:In one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for producing a halftone of a source image. The halftone includes halftone pixels. The halftone pixels are suitable for containing halftone dots. The method select s glyphs corresponding to intensities of regions (e.g., pixels) in the source image. The glyphs contain one or more halftone dots. The method located halftone dots within the halftone pixels such that for at least one pair of halftone dots contained within a pair of halftone pixels sharing a common boundary, the halftone dots in the pair of halftone pixels extend in opposit e directions form the common boundary.