公开(公告)号：US07339704B2

公开(公告)日：2008-03-04

申请号：US10465457

申请日：2003-06-19

申请人： Lalit K. Mestha ,  Norman W. Zeck ,  Kenneth J. Mihalyov ,  Gaurav Sharma

发明人： Lalit K. Mestha ,  Norman W. Zeck ,  Kenneth J. Mihalyov ,  Gaurav Sharma

IPC分类号： H04N1/50 ,  H04N1/56 ,  G06K9/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/6025 ,  H04N1/6055

摘要： The present invention implements a CMYK to CMYK pre-transform in front of at least one printer to be clustered where the transform is designed to ensure that the printers addressed through the pre-transform have substantially identical output color for substantially identical input CMYK values. As one form of implementation a method is disclosed to build CMY to CMY 3D-LUTs and 1D-LUT for K using sensors in the field. Making use of a system LUT—CMY to CMY 3D-LUT and a K to K 1D-LUT—improves consistency and provides a coherent control strategy and a means to provide standardized input CMY and K values in a clustered environment so that single or multiple vendor DFEs see substantially identical CMYK values.

摘要翻译： 本发明在至少一个打印机之前实现CMYK到CMYK预变换，以便将变换设计成保证通过预变换寻址的打印机对于基本上相同的输入CMYK值具有基本相同的输出颜色。 作为实现的一种形式，公开了一种使用现场传感器构建CMY到CMY 3D-LUT和1D-LUT的方法。 利用系统LUT-CMY到CMY 3D-LUT和K至K 1D-LUT提高了一致性，并提供了一致的控制策略，并提供了一种在集群环境中提供标准化输入CMY和K值的方法，使单个或多个 供应商DFE看到基本相同的CMYK值。

公开(公告)号：US08477323B2

公开(公告)日：2013-07-02

申请号：US11158819

申请日：2005-06-22

申请人： James R. Low ,  Norman W. Zeck ,  Robert J. Rolleston

发明人： James R. Low ,  Norman W. Zeck ,  Robert J. Rolleston

IPC分类号： G06F3/12

CPC分类号： G06F3/1248 ,  G06F3/1204 ,  G06F3/1282

摘要： A system enables a rendering intent to be specified for an object in a page description language that does not support the specifying of rendering intents. Such a system includes a user interface for receiving a rendering intent and an identification of an object associated with the received rendering intent, a page description language (PDL) file generator for generating a tag to associate the identified object with a PDL output parameter, and an encoder for encoding the received rendering intent in the PDL output parameter associated with the identified object. Such a system may be used, for example, with a PostScript or a PDF print job file.

摘要翻译： 系统使得能够以不支持指定呈现意图的页面描述语言为对象指定呈现意图。 这样的系统包括用于接收呈现意图的用户界面和与接收到的呈现意图相关联的对象的标识;页面描述语言（PDL）文件生成器，用于生成将所识别的对象与PDL输出参数相关联的标签，以及 用于对与所识别的对象相关联的PDL输出参数中的接收到的渲染意图进行编码的编码器。 这样的系统可以例如使用PostScript或PDF打印作业文件来使用。

公开(公告)号：US06956676B2

公开(公告)日：2005-10-18

申请号：US09683418

申请日：2001-12-26

申请人： Norman W. Zeck ,  Peter A. Crean

发明人： Norman W. Zeck ,  Peter A. Crean

IPC分类号： H04N1/405 ,  G06K15/00 ,  H04N1/40

CPC分类号： H04N1/405 ,  H04N1/4058

摘要： Halftone generating methods and systems convert continuous tone anti-aliased image data to halftone image data using halftoning techniques that efficiently use memory resources. One of a plurality of Holladay counters is selected and the address bits from the selected Holladay counter are output to a look-up table that efficiently stores various halftone screens. Halftone image data is then output. If necessary, the halftone image data is unpacked and replicated as required depending on the resolution requirements of the halftone screen.

摘要翻译： 半色调产生方法和系统使用半色调技术将连续色调抗锯齿图像数据转换成半色调图像数据，该技术有效地使用存储器资源。 选择多个Holladay计数器中的一个，并且将来自所选Holladay计数器的地址位输出到有效存储各种半色调屏幕的查找表。 然后输出半色调图像数据。 如果需要，根据半色调屏幕的分辨率要求，将半色调图像数据解压缩并根据需要进行复制。

公开(公告)号：US06668093B2

公开(公告)日：2003-12-23

申请号：US09729151

申请日：2000-12-04

申请人： Norman W. Zeck

发明人： Norman W. Zeck

IPC分类号： G06K936

CPC分类号： H04N19/423 ,  G06T9/008 ,  H04N19/93 ,  H04N19/94 ,  H04N19/97

摘要： A method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing electronic documents, with improved compression and reduced history memory size requirements. The method includes receiving scan line ordered raster documents ordering the raster data, and compressing the data with a lossless dictionary compression method. The ordering of raster data into vectors accounts for the correlation of pixel data between scan lines, improving the compression. This ordering also reduces the history window size requirements in a sliding window dictionary compression method.

公开(公告)号：US6020979A

公开(公告)日：2000-02-01

申请号：US46231

申请日：1998-03-23

申请人： Norman W. Zeck ,  Thomas A. Henderson

发明人： Norman W. Zeck ,  Thomas A. Henderson

IPC分类号： H04N1/40 ,  G06T5/00 ,  G06T5/20 ,  H04N1/387 ,  H04N1/403 ,  H04N1/405 ,  H04N1/409 ,  H04N1/41 ,  G06K15/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/4092 ,  H04N1/3871 ,  H04N1/4056

摘要： A method of encoding higher resolution edge information in lower resolution image information, so that the advantageous properties of both types of data can be used in binarization including the steps of receiving text/line art regions of the document image as binary pixels at a text/line art frequency selected to avoid aliasing effects at any edge pixels therein; receiving pictorial regions of the document image as continuous tone pixels, at a frequency lower than the text/line art frequency; applying an anti-aliasing filter to the text/line art regions, to replace some edge pixels with gray level pixels having M levels; converting the document image to a binary representation by converting each of the M levels in the text/line art regions to a binary representation reflecting correct edge position of the text/line art regions, and converting the contone pixels to a binary representation determined by a halftone pattern having N levels selected for the contone pixels.

摘要翻译： 一种在较低分辨率图像信息中编码较高分辨率边缘信息的方法，使得两种类型的数据的有利性质可以用于二值化，包括以文本/文本图像的文本/线条艺术区域接收文本/ 线艺术频率被选择以避免其中任何边缘像素的混叠效应; 以低于文本/线条艺术频率的频率接收文档图像的图形区域作为连续色调像素; 将抗混叠滤波器应用于文本/线条艺术区域，以用具有M个等级的灰度像素替换一些边缘像素; 通过将文本/线条艺术区域中的每个M级别转换为反映文本/线条艺术区域的正确边缘位置的二进制表示，并将连续词像素转换为由 具有为连续色像素选择的N个级别的半色调图案。

公开(公告)号：US5745249A

公开(公告)日：1998-04-28

申请号：US770922

申请日：1996-12-20

申请人： Peter A. Crean ,  Norman W. Zeck

发明人： Peter A. Crean ,  Norman W. Zeck

IPC分类号： G06T1/20 ,  G06T5/00 ,  H04N1/405 ,  H04N1/40 ,  G06K9/54

CPC分类号： H04N1/4055

摘要： The present invention is a super-scalar method and apparatus for the generation of halftone dot patterns in an image processing system. The super-scalar design employs at least one block of memory for the storage of at least one predetermined halftone dot pattern across a plurality of unique locations therein, and a sequencer for producing an index into said memory as a function of the position of the pixel along a scan line and the halftone dot characteristics. Also included is addressing circuitry for memory access control, to combine the index produced by said sequencer and a pixel value for the pixel to produce a memory address, the memory address being thereby employed to access one of said locations in memory and to cause said memory to output a signal representative of a portion of the halftone dot pattern stored at the unique addressed location.

摘要翻译： 本发明是用于在图像处理系统中产生半色调点图案的超标量方法和装置。 超标量设计采用至少一个存储器块来存储跨越其中的多个独特位置的至少一个预定的半色调点图案，以及定序器，用于根据像素的位置产生索引到所述存储器中 沿扫描线和半色调点特征。 还包括用于存储器访问控制的寻址电路，组合由所述定序器产生的索引和像素的像素值以产生存储器地址，由此存储器地址用于访问存储器中的一个位置并使所述存储器 以输出表示存储在唯一寻址位置处的半色调点图案的一部分的信号。

公开(公告)号：US08610920B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-17

申请号：US12423999

申请日：2009-04-15

申请人： Saurabh Prabhat ,  Norman W. Zeck ,  Robert M. Lofthus

发明人： Saurabh Prabhat ,  Norman W. Zeck ,  Robert M. Lofthus

IPC分类号： G06F3/00 ,  G06F3/12 ,  G06F15/173

CPC分类号： G06F3/1205 ,  G06F3/1256 ,  G06F3/1275

摘要： A system is utilized to view and configure one or more print job scenarios within a print system. A preference module allows a user to select one or more preferences related to a print job in view of a job set and one or more limitations related to hardware within the print system. A rules component creates one or more rules for use within the print system to output a hard copy based at least in part upon the preferences selected via the preference module. A scheduler receives one or more rules from the rules component and configures the print system to execute the print job according to the preferences and/or the rules. A visualizer displays a scenario associated with each print system configuration, wherein the preferences and the rules can be edited to create one or more scenarios for execution of the print job.

摘要翻译： 利用系统来查看和配置打印系统内的一个或多个打印作业场景。 偏好模块允许用户根据作业集和与打印系统内的硬件相关的一个或多个限制来选择与打印作业相关的一个或多个偏好。 规则组件创建用于在打印系统内使用的一个或多个规则，至少部分地基于通过偏好模块选择的偏好来输出硬拷贝。 调度器从规则组件接收一个或多个规则，并根据偏好和/或规则配置打印系统执行打印作业。 可视化器显示与每个打印系统配置相关联的场景，其中可以编辑偏好和规则以创建用于执行打印作业的一个或多个场景。

公开(公告)号：US20130265423A1

公开(公告)日：2013-10-10

申请号：US13441294

申请日：2012-04-06

申请人： Edgar A. Bernal ,  Zhigang Fan ,  Yao Rong Wang ,  Robert P. Loce ,  Norman W. Zeck ,  Graham S. Pennington

发明人： Edgar A. Bernal ,  Zhigang Fan ,  Yao Rong Wang ,  Robert P. Loce ,  Norman W. Zeck ,  Graham S. Pennington

IPC分类号： H04N7/18 ,  G08B21/18

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0284 ,  G06K9/00785 ,  G07B15/02 ,  H04N7/181

摘要： A method for determining the occurrence of a short-term parking violation includes receiving video data in a sequence of frames provided by an image capture device monitoring a parking area over a duration of time. The method includes determining the presence of a vehicle captured in at least one of the sequence of frames. The method tracks the location of the vehicle across the sequence of frames. The method further determines a spatial location of the vehicle in each frame. The method includes determining spatio-temporal information describing the location of the vehicle as a function of time by associating the spatial location of the vehicle at each frame with the time instant at which the frame was captured. In response to the spatio-temporal information indicating that the vehicle becomes stationary, the method determines a duration that the vehicle is stationary using the determined spatio-temporal information of the vehicle.

摘要翻译： 用于确定短期停车违规发生的方法包括：在由持续时间监视停车区域的图像捕获装置提供的帧序列中接收视频数据。 该方法包括确定在帧序列中的至少一个中捕获的车辆的存在。 该方法跟踪车辆在整个帧序列上的位置。 该方法进一步确定车辆在每一帧中的空间位置。 该方法包括通过将每个帧处的车辆的空间位置与捕获帧的时刻相关联来确定描述车辆位置的时空信息作为时间的函数。 响应于指示车辆变得静止的时空信息，该方法使用所确定的车辆的时空信息来确定车辆静止的持续时间。

公开(公告)号：US20080137111A1

公开(公告)日：2008-06-12

申请号：US11636901

申请日：2006-12-11

申请人： Martin E. Banton ,  Mark S. Jackson ,  Norman W. Zeck ,  Peter A. Crean

发明人： Martin E. Banton ,  Mark S. Jackson ,  Norman W. Zeck ,  Peter A. Crean

IPC分类号： H04N1/60

CPC分类号： H04N1/603

摘要： A printing system capable of binding a modified image data to an individual print engine in a multiple print engine system. The system includes an image processor such as a digital front end, a set of transformations, and a configuration of printers. The system can also include a scanner that scans a test image so that this image binding process can be repeated. Furthermore, the transformation binding can also take place in real time.

摘要翻译： 一种能够将经修改的图像数据绑定到多重打印引擎系统中的单独打印引擎的打印系统。 该系统包括图像处理器，例如数字前端，一组转换和打印机的配置。 系统还可以包括扫描测试图像的扫描仪，以便可以重复该图像绑定过程。 此外，转换绑定也可以实时发生。

公开(公告)号：US06985249B2

公开(公告)日：2006-01-10

申请号：US09888755

申请日：2001-06-25

申请人： R. Victor Klassen ,  Norman W. Zeck

发明人： R. Victor Klassen ,  Norman W. Zeck

IPC分类号： G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/122 ,  G06F3/1205 ,  G06F3/1206 ,  G06F3/1243 ,  G06F3/1247 ,  G06F3/1284 ,  Y10S707/99942

摘要： A method for processing raw application data, which includes a plurality of occurrences of an object, receives a stream of the raw application data into a job inspector. The raw application data includes object raw data, which represents the object, and other raw data. The stream of the raw application data is scanned within the job inspector for identifying each of the occurrences of the object. The object raw data is transmitted to a cache manager. Data representing the object raw data is cached as a function of the object occurrences detected by the job inspector.