公开(公告)号：US07457015B2

公开(公告)日：2008-11-25

申请号：US11132465

申请日：2005-05-18

申请人： Trevor J. Snyder ,  Stephen M. Kroon ,  Meng Yao ,  Michael C. Gordon

发明人： Trevor J. Snyder ,  Stephen M. Kroon ,  Meng Yao ,  Michael C. Gordon

IPC分类号： G03F3/08

CPC分类号： H04N1/52

摘要： A method of processing cyan, magenta and yellow color values including half-toning cyan and magenta colors values, and half-toning yellow color values in such a manner that yellow dots tend to be printed next to cyan, magenta or secondary color dots regardless of cyan, magenta, or yellow coverages.

摘要翻译： 一种处理青色，品红色和黄色颜色值的方法，包括半色调青色和品红色颜色值，以及半色调黄色颜色值，使得黄色点倾向于打印在青色，品红色或次级色点旁边，而不管 青色，品红色或黄色覆盖物。

公开(公告)号：US20070291287A1

公开(公告)日：2007-12-20

申请号：US11424182

申请日：2006-06-14

申请人： Trevor J. Snyder ,  Stephen M. Kroon ,  Paul J. Woodward

发明人： Trevor J. Snyder ,  Stephen M. Kroon ,  Paul J. Woodward

IPC分类号： G03F3/08

CPC分类号： H04N1/6055

摘要： A method for printer to monitor color matching includes displaying a target color pattern corresponding to a source color pattern and printing a plurality of reference color patterns, each reference color pattern corresponding to a color corrected source color pattern. The method includes comparing the reference and target color patterns and determining whether there is a match according to a user-defined criteria. A system includes a display device to display a source color pattern represented in a first color space in a second color space; a printer to map first color space values of the source color pattern to third color space values associated with the printer; color correction transforms to map the third color space values associated with the printer to another set of color space values; and a printer driver to configure color settings according to the selected color correction transform and a selected print mode.

摘要翻译： 一种用于监视颜色匹配的打印机的方法包括显示与源颜色图案相对应的目标颜色图案并打印多个参考颜色图案，每个参考颜色图案对应于颜色校正的源颜色图案。 该方法包括比较参考和目标颜色图案，并根据用户定义的标准确定是否存在匹配。 一种系统包括显示装置，用于显示在第二颜色空间中的第一颜色空间中表示的源颜色图案; 打印机，将源颜色图案的第一颜色空间值映射到与打印机相关联的第三颜色空间值; 颜色校正转换为将与打印机相关联的第三颜色空间值映射到另一组颜色空间值; 以及打印机驱动程序，用于根据所选择的颜色校正变换和所选的打印模式配置颜色设置。

公开(公告)号：US06193366B1

公开(公告)日：2001-02-27

申请号：US09079822

申请日：1998-05-15

申请人： Jule William Thomas, Jr. ,  Bernard Allen Apple ,  C. Wayne Jaeger ,  Stephen M. Kroon

发明人： Jule William Thomas, Jr. ,  Bernard Allen Apple ,  C. Wayne Jaeger ,  Stephen M. Kroon

IPC分类号： B41J201

CPC分类号： B41J2/005 ,  B41J2/17593 ,  B41J2002/012

摘要： An improved apparatus for recording a gradient image on transparent media. The apparatus has at least one solid phase change ink and a solid null image element. A printing head melts the solid phase change ink to form a molten phase change ink and melts the solid null image element to form a molten null image element. The molten phase change ink and the molten null image element are deposited, in an imagewise pattern, onto a transfer surface. A cooling mechanism cools the molten phase change ink and the molten null image element in the imagewise pattern to form a malleable phase change ink and a malleable null image element in the imagewise pattern on the transfer surface. The malleable phase change ink and the malleable null image element are transfered to a media from the transfer surface in the imagewise pattern.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在透明介质上记录梯度图像的改进的装置。 该装置具有至少一个固相变油墨和固体无效图像元件。 打印头熔化固相变油墨以形成熔融相变油墨并熔化固体无效图像元件以形成熔融无效图像元素。 熔融相变油墨和熔融零点图像元素以成像图案沉积到转印表面上。 冷却机构以成像图案冷却熔融相变油墨和熔融零点图像元素，以在转印表面上的成像图案中形成可延展的相变油墨和可延展的零点图像元素。 可延展的相变油墨和可延展的零点图像元件以成像图案从转印表面转印到介质上。

公开(公告)号：US06871928B1

公开(公告)日：2005-03-29

申请号：US10657020

申请日：2003-09-05

申请人： Stephen M. Kroon

发明人： Stephen M. Kroon

IPC分类号： B41J2/21 ,  B41J2/525 ,  G06T5/00 ,  H04N1/405 ,  H04N1/46 ,  H04N1/52 ,  H04N1/58 ,  H04N1/60 ,  B41J2/205

CPC分类号： H04N1/58

摘要： A technique for selective enhancement of black including printing a non-black color at pixel locations identified by a candidate pixel array and which correspond to marked pixels in a predetermined pixel pattern, wherein the candidate pixel array comprises a plurality of N-pixel candidate tiles respectively associated with N-pixel image tiles of a black half-toned bit map, wherein an N-pixel candidate tile includes marked pixels only if the associated N-pixel image tile comprises a portion of a half-toned uniform region and the number of marked pixels in the associated N-pixel image tile is at least a predetermined percentage of N, and wherein the number of marked pixels in some of the N-pixel candidate tiles is less than the number of marked pixels of the associated N-pixel image tile.

摘要翻译： 一种用于选择性增强黑色的技术，包括在由候选像素阵列识别并对应于预定像素图案中的标记像素的像素位置处印刷非黑色，其中候选像素阵列分别包括多个N像素候选瓦片 与黑色半色调位图的N像素图像块相关联，其中仅当相关联的N像素图像块包括半色调均匀区域的一部分和标记的数量时，N像素候选块包括标记像素 相关联的N像素图像瓦片中的像素至少为N的预定百分比，并且其中N个像素候选瓦片中的一些中的标记像素的数量小于相关联的N像素图像瓦片的标记像素的数量 。

公开(公告)号：US06799912B2

公开(公告)日：2004-10-05

申请号：US10280223

申请日：2002-10-25

申请人： Stephen M. Kroon

发明人： Stephen M. Kroon

IPC分类号： B41J1144

CPC分类号： G03G13/01 ,  G03G2215/0158

摘要： A printing technique wherein pixel locations that are requested to be marked with only black are identified, black is applied to the identified pixel locations, and non-black color is applied to those identified pixel locations that (A) have an associated black half-tone threshold level that is darker than a predetermined non-white threshold level, and (B) correspond to on-pixels of a reference pattern of non-black color pixels having an on-pixel population of at least 20 percent and a toner transfer efficiency of less than about 20 percent.

摘要翻译： 识别被请求仅标记黑色的像素位置的打印技术，将黑色应用于所识别的像素位置，并且将非黑色应用于（A）具有相关联的黑色半色调的那些识别的像素位置 阈值电平比预定的非白色阈值电平更暗，并且（B）对应于具有至少20％的像素总数的非黑色彩色像素的参考图案的像素和调色剂转印效率 小于约20％。

公开(公告)号：US5966150A

公开(公告)日：1999-10-12

申请号：US968778

申请日：1997-11-10

申请人： Audrey A. Lester ,  Steven V. Korol ,  Stephen M. Kroon ,  C. Wayne Jaeger

发明人： Audrey A. Lester ,  Steven V. Korol ,  Stephen M. Kroon ,  C. Wayne Jaeger

IPC分类号： B41J2/005 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J2/015 ,  B41J2/175 ,  B41J2/21 ,  B41J2/52 ,  B41M3/00 ,  B41M5/00 ,  B41M5/50 ,  B41M5/52 ,  B41M7/00 ,  B41J2/17 ,  G01D11/00

CPC分类号： B41J2/005 ,  B41J2/0057 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J2/17593 ,  B41J2/2114 ,  B41J2/52 ,  B41M3/008 ,  B41M5/0023 ,  B41M5/025 ,  B41M7/0027 ,  B41M5/508 ,  B41M5/5218

摘要： A method of printing with phase change ink on an ink jet printer that contains multiple levels of black gray scale ink and a clear or slightly tinted wax ink base and which is applied to the roughened surface of an adhesion promoting coating applied to a transparent substrate is disclosed. The adhesion promoting coating has a surface roughness of greater than about 0.5 micrometers and contains a binder and an inorganic particulate material.

摘要翻译： 在喷墨打印机上印刷相变墨水的方法，该喷墨打印机含有多层黑色灰色油墨和透明或稍微着色的蜡油墨基底，并施加于施加在透明基材上的粘附促进涂层的粗糙表面上， 披露 粘合促进涂层具有大于约0.5微米的表面粗糙度并且包含粘合剂和无机颗粒材料。

公开(公告)号：US08077332B2

公开(公告)日：2011-12-13

申请号：US10274470

申请日：2002-10-17

申请人： Stephen M. Kroon ,  Paul W. Philippi

发明人： Stephen M. Kroon ,  Paul W. Philippi

IPC分类号： G06F3/12 ,  G06K15/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/4105

摘要： Writing a decompressed bit-map cell in accordance with a pixel count and a fill order pattern based on half-tone threshold values of a half-toned bit-map compression cell that was used to determine the pixel count.

摘要翻译： 根据用于确定像素数的半色调位图压缩单元的半色调阈值，根据像素数和填充顺序图来编写解压缩位图单元。

公开(公告)号：US07717532B2

公开(公告)日：2010-05-18

申请号：US11275664

申请日：2006-01-23

申请人： Stephen M. Kroon ,  Meng Yao ,  Augustus J. Rogers, IV

发明人： Stephen M. Kroon ,  Meng Yao ,  Augustus J. Rogers, IV

IPC分类号： B41J2/205

CPC分类号： B41J2/17593 ,  H04N1/54

摘要： An imaging system that forms an image on a receiving medium including a fluid ejector that ejects fluid onto the receiving medium and a controller that controls the fluid ejector to eject the fluid to include a non-white and non-clear fluid or one of at least white and clear W fluid on each pixel on the receiving medium. A substantially single layer of fluid is ejected onto the receiving medium. A method for forming an image on a receiving medium includes ejecting a fluid onto the receiving medium, and controlling the ejection of the fluid to include a non-white and non-clear fluid or one of at least white and clear fluid for each pixel on the receiving medium.

摘要翻译： 一种在接收介质上形成图像的成像系统，包括将流体喷射到接收介质上的流体喷射器，以及控制器，其控制流体喷射器喷射流体以包括非白色和非透明流体或至少 白色和透明的W液体在接收介质上的每个像素上。 将基本上单层的流体喷射到接收介质上。 用于在接收介质上形成图像的方法包括将流体喷射到接收介质上，并且控制流体的喷射以包括非白色和非透明流体或者每个像素上的至少白色和透明流体之一 接收介质。

公开(公告)号：US06250733B1

公开(公告)日：2001-06-26

申请号：US09198024

申请日：1998-11-23

申请人： Meng Yao ,  Stephen M. Kroon

发明人： Meng Yao ,  Stephen M. Kroon

IPC分类号： B41J2205

CPC分类号： H04N1/52 ,  H04N1/56

摘要： A method of operating a printing system that can print any of several different colors onto a point on a sheet of printer media. The method includes using a halftoning screen with a matrix of assorted threshold values, along with image data having a matrix of image data elements. For each data element and each color, a density value is determined to establish the amount of each color needed to produce the color associated with the original data element. Then a calculation determines which of the colors will be printed to the particular location. In a selected sequence of colors, density values of the colors are added one by one to generate a density sum that increases until it exceeds the threshold value. The last color added, which caused the sum to exceed the threshold, is then printed to the media sheet at a corresponding point. The system may employ a high frequency blue noise screen, and may operate to print droplets of more colors than the number of ink colors by printing secondary color dots formed of two or more different color ink, as well as single color dots.

摘要翻译： 一种操作打印系统的方法，该打印系统可以将多种不同颜色的任何一种打印到一张打印机介质上的一个点上。 该方法包括使用具有各种阈值的矩阵的半色调屏幕，以及具有图像数据元素的矩阵的图像数据。 对于每个数据元素和每种颜色，确定密度值以建立产生与原始数据元素相关联的颜色所需的每种颜色的量。 然后计算确定将哪一种颜色打印到特定位置。 在所选择的颜色序列中，逐个加上颜色的浓度值，以产生增加直至其超过阈值的浓度和。 然后，将相加的总和超过阈值的最后一个颜色在对应的点打印到介质页。 该系统可以使用高频蓝噪声屏幕，并且可以通过打印由两个或更多个不同颜色的墨水形成的次要颜色点以及单个颜色点来操作以比通过墨水颜色的数量打印更多颜色的墨滴。

公开(公告)号：US6059404A

公开(公告)日：2000-05-09

申请号：US954342

申请日：1997-10-17

申请人： C. Wayne Jaeger ,  Stephen M. Kroon

发明人： C. Wayne Jaeger ,  Stephen M. Kroon

IPC分类号： B41J2/01 ,  B41J2/205 ,  B41J2/21 ,  B41J2/485 ,  B41M1/30 ,  B41M5/025 ,  B41M7/00 ,  C09D11/00 ,  B41J2/175 ,  G01D11/00

CPC分类号： B41J2/01 ,  B41J2/2056 ,  B41J2/211 ,  B41J2/2114 ,  B41M5/0256 ,  B41M7/00 ,  C09D11/32 ,  C09D11/34

摘要： A gray scale ink jet printing method and apparatus which produce a high quality images having varying color intensities are disclosed. This is achieved by using a clear phase change ink base and a plurality of colored phase change inks with varying amounts of black dye, thereby producing multiple gray scale levels of black in images with substantial contrast between the imaged and non-imaged areas that are used in medical diagnostic imaging applications.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种产生具有不同颜色强度的高品质图像的灰度喷墨打印方法和装置。 这通过使用具有不同量的黑色染料的透明相变油墨基底和多个有色相变油墨来实现，从而在使用的成像区域和非成像区域之间产生具有显着对比度的图像中的黑色的多个灰度级别 在医学诊断成像应用中。