PAGE PARALLEL RASTER IMAGE PROCESSING
    1.
    发明申请
    PAGE PARALLEL RASTER IMAGE PROCESSING 有权
    页面并行RASTER图像处理

    公开(公告)号:US20110292412A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-12-01

    申请号:US12788417

    申请日:2010-05-27

    IPC分类号: G06K1/00

    摘要: According to an aspect of the disclosure, a printing system is provided comprising a plurality of resources including idle and non-idle resources having a at least one image marking engine. The plurality of resources includes a page parallel RIP system wherein the RIP system supports configurable sized print chunks. The RIP system adaptively adjusts the size of the chunks according to the busyness of receiving RIP nodes.

    摘要翻译: 根据本公开的一个方面,提供一种打印系统,其包括多个资源,包括具有至少一个图像标记引擎的空闲和非空闲资源。 多个资源包括页面并行RIP系统,其中RIP系统支持可配置大小的打印块。 RIP系统根据接收RIP节点的繁忙情况自适应调整组块大小。

    Parallel RIP with Preamble Caching
    2.
    发明申请
    Parallel RIP with Preamble Caching 有权
    并行RIP与前导缓存

    公开(公告)号:US20090161163A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-06-25

    申请号:US11961102

    申请日:2007-12-20

    IPC分类号: G06K15/00

    CPC分类号: G06F3/124 G06F3/1213

    摘要: A method and system is provided for splitting a print job into its preamble and at least one chunk. The splitter maintains a collection of RIP node addresses to which chunks of the job currently being split have already been sent. When a new chunk is about to be sent, the splitter checks whether each RIP node address has already received a chunk. If the RIP node has not already received a chunk, the splitter sends the preamble as well as the chunk to an available RIP associated with the RIP node. If, however, the RIP node address has already received a chunk, only the portion of the chunk after the preamble is sent to an available RIP associated with the RIP node and communicate the location of the preamble to the available RIP node. The preamble may contain common content for each job.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于将打印作业分解成其前导码和至少一个块的方法和系统。 分配器维护目前正在拆分的作业块已经发送到的RIP节点地址的集合。 当新的组块即将发送时,分片器会检查每个RIP节点地址是否已经收到一个块。 如果RIP节点尚未收到块,则分离器将前导码以及该块发送到与RIP节点相关联的可用RIP。 然而,如果RIP节点地址已经接收到一个块,则只有前导码之后的块的部分才被发送到与RIP节点相关联的可用RIP,并且将该前导码的位置传送到可用的RIP节点。 前导码可能包含每个作业的常见内容。

    Method and apparatus for segmenting a composite image into mixed raster content planes
    3.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for segmenting a composite image into mixed raster content planes 有权
    将复合图像分割成混合光栅内容平面的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06324305B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-11-27

    申请号:US09218643

    申请日:1998-12-22

    IPC分类号: G06K936

    CPC分类号: G06K9/00456 H04N1/41

    摘要: An improved technique for compressing a color or gray scale pixel map representing a document using an MRC format including a method of segmenting an original pixel map into two planes, and then compressing the data or each plane in an efficient manner. The image is segmented such that pixels that compress well under a lossy compression technique are placed on one plane and pixels that must be compressed losslessly are placed on another plane. Lossy compression is then applied to the lossy pixel plane while lossless compression is applied to the lossless pixel plane.

    摘要翻译: 一种改进的技术,用于使用包括将原始像素图分割成两个平面的方法的MRC格式压缩表示文档的颜色或灰度像素图,然后以有效的方式压缩数据或每个平面。 图像被分割,使得在有损压缩技术下压缩的像素被放置在一个平面上,并且必须将无损压缩的像素放置在另一平面上。 然后将有损压缩应用于有损像素平面,同时将无损压缩应用于无损像素平面。

    Page parallel rip with interleaved chunks
    4.
    发明授权
    Page parallel rip with interleaved chunks 有权
    页面并行裂缝与交错块

    公开(公告)号:US08665469B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-03-04

    申请号:US12703261

    申请日:2010-02-10

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12

    摘要: Systems and methods are described that facilitate distributing a raster image processing task for an input file (e.g., an electronic document) across a plurality of nodes (e.g., computers) in a network. The input file is received at a first node, which becomes the controlling node and splits the pages of the input file into interleaved chunks such that adjacent pages are allocated to different chunks (i.e., no chunk contains adjacent pages in the document). Chunks are then assigned to different nodes for concurrent raster image processing. Once complete, the processed pages are returned to the controller node, which logically orders the pages into their original sequential order, and outputs the logically ordered, raster image processed pages to a printer, where they are printed.

    摘要翻译: 描述了便于在跨网络中的多个节点(例如计算机)上为输入文件(例如,电子文档)分发光栅图像处理任务的系统和方法。 输入文件在第一个节点处被接收,第一个节点成为控制节点,并将输入文件的页面分割成交错的块,使得相邻页面被分配给不同的块(即,没有块包含文档中的相邻页面)。 然后将块分配到不同的节点进行并行光栅图像处理。 一旦完成,处理的页面将返回到控制器节点,逻辑上将页面顺序排列成其原始顺序,并将经过逻辑排序的光栅图像处理页面输出到打印机。

    Page parallel raster image processing
    5.
    发明授权
    Page parallel raster image processing 有权
    页面并行光栅图像处理

    公开(公告)号:US08427702B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-04-23

    申请号:US12788417

    申请日:2010-05-27

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12 G06F9/46 G06K15/00

    摘要: According to an aspect of the disclosure, a printing system is provided comprising a plurality of resources including idle and non-idle resources having a at least one image marking engine. The plurality of resources includes a page parallel RIP system wherein the RIP system supports configurable sized print chunks. The RIP system adaptively adjusts the size of the chunks according to the busyness of receiving RIP nodes.

    摘要翻译: 根据本公开的一个方面,提供一种打印系统,其包括多个资源,包括具有至少一个图像标记引擎的空闲和非空闲资源。 多个资源包括页面并行RIP系统,其中RIP系统支持可配置大小的打印块。 RIP系统根据接收RIP节点的繁忙情况自适应调整组块大小。

    Parallel RIP with preamble caching
    6.
    发明授权
    Parallel RIP with preamble caching 有权
    并行RIP与前导码缓存

    公开(公告)号:US08077330B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-12-13

    申请号:US11961102

    申请日:2007-12-20

    IPC分类号: G06K15/00

    CPC分类号: G06F3/124 G06F3/1213

    摘要: A method and system is provided for splitting a print job into its preamble and at least one chunk. The splitter maintains a collection of RIP node addresses to which chunks of the job currently being split have already been sent. When a new chunk is about to be sent, the splitter checks whether each RIP node address has already received a chunk. If the RIP node has not already received a chunk, the splitter sends the preamble as well as the chunk to an available RIP associated with the RIP node. If, however, the RIP node address has already received a chunk, only the portion of the chunk after the preamble is sent to an available RIP associated with the RIP node and communicate the location of the preamble to the available RIP node. The preamble may contain common content for each job.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于将打印作业分解成其前导码和至少一个块的方法和系统。 分配器维护目前正在拆分的作业块已经发送到的RIP节点地址的集合。 当新的组块即将发送时,分片器会检查每个RIP节点地址是否已经收到一个块。 如果RIP节点尚未收到块,则分离器将前导码以及该块发送到与RIP节点相关联的可用RIP。 然而,如果RIP节点地址已经接收到一个块,只有前导码之后的块的部分才被发送到与RIP节点相关联的可用RIP,并将该前导码的位置传送到可用的RIP节点。 前导码可能包含每个作业的常见内容。

    PAGE PARALLEL RIP WITH INTERLEAVED CHUNKS
    7.
    发明申请
    PAGE PARALLEL RIP WITH INTERLEAVED CHUNKS 有权
    PAGE PARALLEL RIP with INTERLEAVED CHUNKS

    公开(公告)号:US20110194137A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-08-11

    申请号:US12703261

    申请日:2010-02-10

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12

    摘要: Systems and methods are described that facilitate distributing a raster image processing task for an input file (e.g., an electronic document) across a plurality of nodes (e.g., computers) in a network. The input file is received at a first node, which becomes the controlling node and splits the pages of the input file into interleaved chunks such that adjacent pages are allocated to different chunks (i.e., no chunk contains adjacent pages in the document). Chunks are then assigned to different nodes for concurrent raster image processing. Once complete, the processed pages are returned to the controller node, which logically orders the pages into their original sequential order, and outputs the logically ordered, raster image processed pages to a printer, where they are printed.

    摘要翻译: 描述了便于在跨网络中的多个节点(例如计算机)上为输入文件(例如,电子文档)分发光栅图像处理任务的系统和方法。 输入文件在第一个节点处被接收,第一个节点成为控制节点,并将输入文件的页面分割成交错的块,使得相邻页面被分配给不同的块(即,没有块包含文档中的相邻页面)。 然后将块分配到不同的节点进行并行光栅图像处理。 一旦完成,处理的页面将返回到控制器节点,逻辑上将页面顺序排列成其原始顺序,并将经过逻辑排序的光栅图像处理页面输出到打印机。

    System and method for determining a billing structure for documents based on marking medium predictions
    8.
    发明授权
    System and method for determining a billing structure for documents based on marking medium predictions 有权
    用于基于标记介质预测确定文档的计费结构的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08559081B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-10-15

    申请号:US12790388

    申请日:2010-05-28

    申请人: Peter A. Crean

    发明人: Peter A. Crean

    IPC分类号: G03F3/08

    摘要: Disclosed is a method for processing raster image data and determining via a reference device (e.g., LUT), an amount of marking medium (toner, ink) to be used for printing a document. Then billing costs based on the amount of medium is determined. In particular, a calibration method may be performed on an apparatus to determine the amounts of medium used for that particular apparatus. The calibration method includes printing pages with test patches for a plurality of colors at a particular dot value (or density), and weighing similar printed test pages so that the amount of medium used to print colors at particular dot values is determined by subtracting a weight of the pages before printing from the weight of the printed test pages. The change in weight (or mass) of the medium is used to populate the reference device for that apparatus.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于处理光栅图像数据并经由参考装置(例如,LUT),用于打印文档的标记介质(调色剂,墨)的量的处理的方法。 然后确定基于介质量的计费费用。 特别地,可以在装置上执行校准方法以确定用于该特定装置的介质的量。 校准方法包括以特定的点值(或密度)打印具有用于多种颜色的测试片的页面,并称重类似的印刷测试页,使得用于在特定点值处打印颜色的介质的量通过减去重量来确定 从印刷测试页的重量打印之前的页面。 介质的重量(或质量)的变化用于填充该装置的参考装置。

    Vector halftoning in an image path utilizing sub-sampled cross-channel image values
    9.
    发明授权
    Vector halftoning in an image path utilizing sub-sampled cross-channel image values 有权
    使用子采样交叉通道图像值的图像路径中的矢量半色调

    公开(公告)号:US08203760B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-06-19

    申请号:US12396668

    申请日:2009-03-03

    IPC分类号: H04N1/405 H04N1/46

    CPC分类号: H04N1/52

    摘要: This disclosure provides methods, apparatus and systems to generate vector halftone data for rendering an image on an image output device. According to one aspect, a method generates vector halftone data as a function of contone pixel data for a given colorant at its nominal resolution and contone pixel data for the other colorants at a relatively lower resolution.

    摘要翻译: 本公开提供了生成用于在图像输出设备上呈现图像的矢量半色调数据的方法,装置和系统。 根据一个方面,一种方法根据其标称分辨率产生作为给定着色剂的连续色像素数据的函数的矢量半色调数据,并以相对较低的分辨率对其它着色剂进行连续色调像素数据。

    HYBRID VECTOR HALFTONE SCREENING AND ERROR DIFFUSION
    10.
    发明申请
    HYBRID VECTOR HALFTONE SCREENING AND ERROR DIFFUSION 审中-公开
    混合矢量HALFTONE筛选和错误扩展

    公开(公告)号:US20120106835A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-05-03

    申请号:US12915271

    申请日:2010-10-29

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    CPC分类号: H04N1/4052 H04N1/52

    摘要: Vector halftoning and error diffusion are combined to provide a quantization method that yields high quality rendered images while demanding fewer system resources. For instance, the method is tolerant of resolution reductions in secondary or auxiliary channels to the vector halftoning process. Accordingly, these secondary pixel data channels can be sub-sampled and/or bit-depth reduced for transmission bandwidth conservation and/or reduction in data storage requirements. Restoring the resolution of the low resolution channels provides estimated image data to arrange or align with high resolution target channel data for the vector halftoning process. Error from marking decisions generated by the vector halftoning process is diffused to neighboring unprocessed pixels. The method also allows for the use of a small vector halftone threshold array while providing quantized images with fine texture and wide color gamuts. In some embodiments error diffusion is distributed according to vector error diffusion.

    摘要翻译: 组合向量半色调和误差扩散以提供量化方法,其产生高质量渲染图像,同时要求较少的系统资源。 例如,该方法容忍向量半色调处理的次要或辅助通道中的分辨率降低。 因此,可以对这些次级像素数据信道进行子采样和/或位深度降低,以便传输带宽保持和/或减少数据存储要求。 恢复低分辨率通道的分辨率提供了估计的图像数据以排列或对齐用于矢量半色调处理的高分辨率目标通道数据。 通过矢量半色调处理生成的标记判定出错,扩散到相邻的未处理像素。 该方法还允许使用小矢量半色调阈值阵列,同时提供具有精细纹理和宽色域的量化图像。 在一些实施例中,根据向量误差扩散分布误差扩散。