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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7619793 | Moire reduction apparatus, method, and computer product An image forming apparatus has a color converter, a BG/UCR processor, a Bk/Lk generator, and a halftone processor. The cyan, the black, and the magenta are halftone screens having substantially equal frequencies and angle differences therebetween each set at approxi... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7433084 | Digital de-screening technique for scanned documents A method and system for de-screening an image signal utilizing a bank of filters to provide several increasingly blurred versions of the original image signal is disclosed. At any given time, only two of these blurred versions are created, on a pixel-by-pixel basis.... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433256 | Information carrier, and system for positioning such an information carrier in a reading and/or writing apparatus The invention relates to an information carrier (101) intended to be read and/or written by a periodic array of light spots, said information carrier (101) comprising a data area (105) defined by a set of elementary data areas, a first periodic ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433255 | Information carrier, and system for positioning such an information carrier in an apparatus The invention relates to an information carrier, and a system for positioning such an information carrier in an apparatus. This system comprises an optical element (102) for generating a periodic array of light spots (103) intended to be applied to an ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7421230 | Image forming apparatus and method that performs image-process magnification alteration to image data A digital copying machine includes a CPU that executes an overall control, a scanner section, a printer section, and an image processing section that executes image processes including image-process magnification alteration. The CPU adjusts a main-scan magnification... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7375866 | Image processing system and method for screening A system and method for printing an image on a document by generating RGB data from a scanned image, converting the RGB data to CMYK data and identifying one of a first and a second type of screening. The type of screening is identified for a first one of the CMYK d... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369283 | Color image reading apparatus and color image reading method for eliminating or reducing moire A color image reading apparatus reads an original image by a line sensor through sequentially lighting respective light sources of a plurality of colors with respect to a scan line. An analog-to-digital converter converts an analog image signal read by said line sen... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7342696 | Computational moiré compensation The amount of moiré in halftone printed images is reduced using unique moiré intensity functions and moiré vectors in a halftoner. In various embodiments, moiré phase angle zones are determined over the full field of an image and high addressability units in the... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7327492 | Image processing device and image processing method In a black character detection processing, RGB data read from a line buffer is converted into YIQ data. For a subject pixel, a subject area centered on the subject pixel is set, and a judgment pixel that has the lowest brightness in the subject area is set. Then, a ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7301676 | Printing method and apparatus, and binary-form dither matrix pattern A method and apparatus for printing a multivalue image in a binary-form output pattern. The printing apparatus employs a binary-form dither matrix pattern which is composed of a greater number of pixels, so that moiré patterns and other artifacts are minimized in p... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7277201 | Systems and methods for designing digital anamorphic line screens Historically, the creation of digital line screens was considered to be a subset of the creation of the digital cluster dot screens. The geometric constraints necessary for digital cluster dot screens were imported into the creation of digital line screens. Accordin... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7268920 | Halftone patterns The patterns can be used to reduce one or more undesirable effects such as moire or colour shift in coloured halftone images. Colour screens in the images are based on a combination of non-orthogonal mesh structures with parcels of printing dots which have common sh... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7251059 | System for distinguishing line patterns from halftone screens in image data In a system, such as in a digital copier, for classifying image data derived from an original image, the image data is classified by type. An algorithm is applied to the gray levels of pixels surrounding each pixel of interest. The algorithm determines whether a loc... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7233415 | Printing method and apparatus, and binary-form dither matrix pattern A method and apparatus for printing a multivalue image in a binary-form output pattern. The printing apparatus employs a binary-form dither matrix pattern which is composed of a greater number of pixels, so that moiré patterns and other artifacts are minimized in p... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221479 | Method for avoiding multiple color moirés in color halftoning A method for halftoning an image, including receiving image data including a plurality of color separations and comparing image data for first, second, third, and fourth separations to first, second, third, and fourth halftone screens. The screens are characterized ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7209144 | Image-display apparatus, image-display method, and image-display program Aspects of the invention provide an image-display apparatus including an image display, such as a liquid-crystal display panel, where the image display can display a limited number of gray scales, interpolation is performed so that the number of gray scales displaye... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7164499 | Block quantization method for color halftoning A method and apparatus for performing color halftoning using block quantization is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises dividing an input image into a plurality of blocks, clustering pixels in each of the plurality of blocks into a plurality of color g... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7102791 | Mask producing method, image outputting device and computer readable recording medium A mask is produced for converting multi-level image data into a halftone image through comparison with a threshold for each pixel. For this purpose, a dot pattern is determined on each of predetermined gray scale levels, and, the mask is created by the dot patterns ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099043 | Halftone screening method and storage medium A halftone screening method creates screens of a plurality of colors, where each of the screens is divided into a plurality of cells, and intentionally changes a dot position of certain colors within cells of the screens of the certain colors relative to a dot posit... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092123 | Evaluation of dot interference moiré A halftone dot image HI composed of halftone dots is produced by halftone dot meshing of an object image OI. A smoothed object image SOI and a smoothed halftone dot image SHI are then produced by smoothing the object image and the halftone dot image. An interference... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7054032 | Image processing apparatus and method To provide an image processing apparatus capable of making an MTF correction for each image at a low cost. The image processing apparatus according to the present invention performs a spatial filtering process by selecting a filter having an appropriate spatial freq... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7023576 | Method and an apparatus for elimination of color Moiré A digital image processing method for eliminating Moiré in a digital image divided into pixels holding pixel component values includes selecting a first pixel and defining a pixel window around the selected first pixel. Then, a set of pixels are identified which co... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7009737 | Image processing method and apparatus A non-periodic dot output arrangement is taken in the low thickness region, and a periodic dot output arrangement is taken in the intermediate and high thickness region. In addition, error diffusion processing is made for all thickness regions. Small dots are produc... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6999631 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing technique for generating a multi-valued image with fine contours from an input image that is generated by reading, as a multi-valued image, the dotted print contents of printed matter. An image processing apparatus of the present invention genera... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6985256 | Halftoning using dot and line screens to avoid two and three color moiré Moiré free color halftoning is achieved through the use of two dot screens and one or two line screens. The line screens may be, for example hybrid line screens. Frequency vectors associated with the screens combine to produce moiré frequency vectors representing ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6972871 | Color image forming device and method A color image forming device and method prevent occurrence of pile height moires specific to electrophotographic images in low-frequency areas and conventional moires in a digital screen set of four colors. In the color image forming device, by at least one of a hal... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6956670 | Method, system, program, and data structures for halftoning with line screens having different lines per inch (LPI) Provided is a method, system, program, and data structures for halftoning an input image comprised of at least two input color components. Each input color component provides input intensity values for the color component at pixel locations in the image. At least tw... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6919962 | Reflectometry apparatus and method A reflectometry apparatus and method is presented that allow the diffuse and specular reflectance parameters of an object to be independently and reliably measured, and that allow the variations in surface normal and surface height to be estimated. An extended light... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6919969 | Method and apparatus for processing The tincture of an input image is analyzed, and stable, smooth screen angles are assigned in descending order from the most dominant color. When the input image has dot information, like a print, the two-dimensional frequency components of the input image for C, M, ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6897983 | Image processor An image processor of the invention has an object to provide an effective moire suppression by using a spatial filter and an efficient edge emphasis by using a spatial filter. When a spatial filter process is performed for moire removal, a spatial filter processing ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6864994 | High-speed, high-quality descreening system and method A system and method descreen halftone images into a continuous tone image while preserving edge detail and reducing initial image blur. The descreening can be applied to monochrome or color images. Descreening is achieved by first using a low pass filter to form a b... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6850651 | Moiré correction in images Image defects in a digital image are reduced by a process comprising: providing a digital image data set in the form of a matrix of pixels; selecting a sub-matrix comprising at least a 5×5 matrix of pixels; ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6813044 | Narrow band, anisotropic stochastic halftone patterns and methods of creating and using the same A stochastic halftone pattern has been invented which has a narrow band power spectrum due to the incorporation of a dot growth process. The narrow band power spectrum may be matched to the resolution characteristics of specific printers, resulting in smoother print... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6798539 | Method for moire-free color halftoning using non-orthogonal cluster screens The invention provides methods for using single-cell non-orthogonal cluster screens to satisfy the moiré-free conditions for color halftoning. The invention also provides methods that combine single-cell non-orthogonal cluster screens and line screens for moiré-fr... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6753984 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus is arranged to illuminate a transparent or transmissive original with light fluxes emitted by a plurality of light emission parts which differ in wavelength characteristic from each other, to select by means of a reflection mirror the wave... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6717696 | Systems and methods for moiré-reduced halftoning By using negative feedback, moiré patterns can be reduced, or virtually eliminated, from input black-and-white or color original images. In particular, by feeding back an image containing the difference between the original input image and the halftone output with ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6714320 | Image processor and color image processor Halftone processing section carries out a halftone processing using a dither threshold plane on which thresholds in a predetermined threshold range corresponding to the tone range of input image data are arranged, and provides halftone-processed image data. Image ou... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6690484 | Antipatterning printmode for matrix-based scattered-dithered images in incremental printing Apparatus defines a dither mask (DM) and printmask (PM) with corresponding dimensions. In one invention form the DM dimension is not an integral factor or multiple of the PM dimension. The two dimensions may be lengths or widths; preferably the apparatus ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6671401 | Removing color moire patterns from digital images having known chromaticities A method for removing color moire pattern noise having known chromaticities from a digital image is disclosed. The chromaticities are used to determine the region of color moire. The chromaticities within the region of color moire are then changed in acco... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6643030 | Quantization method for color document reproduction in a color printing system The present invention is a method and apparatus for reducing two-color moireoften found during the rendering of full color images using halftoning techniques, by providing shared screen angles between distinct color separations.... | 11/04/2003 |
