Intelligent halftone mechanism

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8830531
APP PUB NO 20120320426A1
SERIAL NO

13162871

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A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes an image processor to selectively rasterize a plurality of objects, and to determine if a size of a first object is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold perform a single-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold and perform a super-cell halftone process on the first object if the size of the first object is greater than the predetermined threshold.

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RICOH COMPANY LTD3-6 NAKAMAGOME 1-CHOME OHTA-KU TOKYO 143-8555

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Meixel, John Longmont, US 1 0
Stanich, Mikel Longmont, US 53 278
Towns, Timothy Longmont, US 4 11
Ushijima, Miki Longmont, US 1 0

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