Inventor
THOMPSON GERHARD ROBERT
US20 patents
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IBM
15 patentsUS6633411B1Oct 14, 2003
Method and apparatus for repurposing binary images
IBM21 citations92
US6088123AJul 11, 2000
Dithering masks with very large periods
IBM20 citations92
US5917951AJun 29, 1999
Clustered aperiodic mask
IBM43 citations92
US6208753B1Mar 27, 2001
Quality of digitized images through post-scanning reregistration of their color planes
IBM40 citations91
US6172769B1Jan 9, 2001
Printer dependent descreening method
IBM22 citations89
US6870643B2Mar 22, 2005
Method and system for error diffusion with a plurality of error measures
IBM12 citations84
US6025930AFeb 15, 2000
Multicell clustered mask with blue noise adjustments
IBM17 citations84
US5943477AAug 24, 1999
Microlocal calibration of digital printers
IBM17 citations84
US6992789B2Jan 31, 2006
Method, system, and program for managing a multi-page document
IBM15 citations83
US6956670B1Oct 18, 2005
Method, system, program, and data structures for halftoning with line screens having different lines per inch (LPI)
IBM15 citations83
US4095283AJun 13, 1978
First in-first out memory array containing special bits for replacement addressing
IBM20 citations80
US6055065AApr 25, 2000
Printer independent halftone image rendering
IBM13 citations74
US7593600B2Sep 22, 2009
Black white image scaling for optical character recognition
IBM3 citations63
US6922196B1Jul 26, 2005
Priority-driven dither
IBM4 citations63
US6687023B1Feb 3, 2004
Data processing system and method for producing shifted-element halftone screens
IBM0 citations46
INFOPRINT SOLUTIONS CO LLC
5 patentsUS7400430B2Jul 15, 2008
Detecting and compensating for color misregistration produced by a color scanner
INFOPRINT SOLUTIONS CO LLC9 citations84
US7310168B2Dec 18, 2007
Method and apparatus for controlling a spot function for digital halftoning
INFOPRINT SOLUTIONS CO LLC8 citations71
US7545537B2Jun 9, 2009
Bandless halftone design for multiple beam printers employing non-orthogonal halftones
INFOPRINT SOLUTIONS CO LLC2 citations63
US7446904B2Nov 4, 2008
Methods and apparatus for generating dither mask through interpolation between preferred patterns
INFOPRINT SOLUTIONS CO LLC5 citations63
US7733533B2Jun 8, 2010
Generating threshold values in a dither matrix
INFOPRINT SOLUTIONS CO LLC3 citations62