摘要:
The present invention is a method and apparatus for improving the appearance of printed documents, and more specifically, to the use of a template matching process to enhance the fast-scan resolution of digital images while maintaining raster resolution for printing. The present invention uses multiple-bit per pixel, statistically generated templates, implemented using look-up tables, to improve document appearance by converting from a single-bit per pixel to N-bits per pixel, while preserving raster resolution of the printed output. The resulting N-bit per pixel image signals may be utilized to control a scanning beam where the beam varies in intensity and duration according to the pulses used to control it.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for automating the design of morphological or template-based filters for print quality enhancement. A plurality of different phase, but same resolution, subsampled images are generated from training documents. Statistical data derived therefrom is then employed in an automated process to generate filters. The filters may be used for resolution enhancement and/or conversion of bitmap images. Furthermore, the statistical data is used to produce filters that are intended to not only optimize image structure, but image density as well.
摘要:
A hybrid halftone cell selection method enables selection of gray levels in halftone printing algorithms to minimize the effects of noise resulting in nonuniformities, such as, for example, halftone banding. The method requires selection of hybrid halftone cells possessing structures wherein the total number of gray pixels are limited. The number of gray pixels having any given intermediate reflectance level in any halftone cell is also limited. The cell selection method thus reduces the number of TRC gray steps to some minimum required number by eliminating the most noise sensitive cells (i.e. those cells having the highest percentage of gray level pixels). The intermediate reflectance values of the gray pixels in the selected cells are then selected to produce uniform gray steps and reduce variability in the TRC.
摘要:
The present invention is a method for automating the design of pattern matching templates used to implement a print quality enhancement filter that preserves image density More particularly, the method is directed to the use of a representative set of page description language decomposed or scanned training documents, and statistical data derived therefrom, in an automated process that generates one or more sets of template-pattern pairs that are used as filters for resolution enhancement and/or conversion of bitmap images.
摘要:
A pulsed imaging Raster Output Scanner utilizes pulse width modulation in conjunction with spatial filtering to form three exposure levels at the surface of a recording medium, one of the levels associated with a specific color.
摘要:
A multi-beam laser ROS print system is described which is adapted to minimize banding in output prints. Multiple beams from a laser source are separated by a distance which causes the beam to scan consecutive lines in a non-consecutive scan; e.g., according to a particular beam interlacing sequence. It has been found that as a general proposition, banding decreases with increasing interlacing orders and, furhter, that once a print system error frequency, or another frequency of interest has been identified, there are a number of interlacing orders, each an optimum value, which can be introduced to reduce banding which would ordinarily result from the particular frequency error.
摘要:
A printing system employing a raster output scanning device is compensated for the effects of motion of the medium upon which an image is being printed. An amplitude transmittance spatial filter is positioned either in an exit pupil of the "slow scan" optics of the system or in the first Fourier transform plane of a lens positioned between the scanning device and the recording medium. Several preferred transmittance functions are provided.
摘要:
A short focal length lens array has a plurality of lenslets formed within the body of a photosensitive glass. The lenslets have areas which are oriented such that they tilt away from each other from the center out to the array edges. The lens array acts as a reduction or enlargement lens when reproducing objects at an object plane onto an image plane. A one or two row embodiment is disclosed suitable for incremental scanning of a document at image planes. A further full frame lens array is disclosed for providing full frame exposure of a document at various selected magnifications.
摘要:
A method for enforcing traffic signal compliance includes acquiring a series of temporal related image frames including a target area. Each image frame includes pixel data representative of the target area. The method includes generating one or more motion vectors between two or more of the image frames. The motion vectors are the type produced by compressing the pixel data associated with the two or more image frames. The method includes associating a cluster of motion vectors with a vehicle. The method further includes tracking a position of the vehicle across the two or more image frames. Using the tracking results, the method includes determining whether the vehicle stops in the target area. For the vehicle being determined as not stopping, the method includes signaling an occurrence of noncompliance.
摘要:
An image processing system, apparatus and method are disclosed for corner enhancing a digital image for rendering on an image output device. According to one exemplary method, pixels associated with corner regions of the digital image are determined using a plurality of vector windows. Subsequently, one or more corner pixels are modified to sharpen the rendering of the digital image on the image output device.