H04N 1/4051
Producing a dispersed dots halftone pattern, the dots having substantially the same
Official title: {producing a dispersed dots halftone pattern, the dots having substantially the same size (different sizes H04N1/4057)}
H04N1/4051 (Producing a dispersed dots halftone pattern, the dots having substantially the same) appears on 1,093 US grants and 710 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
- Method of generating multiplexed image for printing based on color values gamut-mapped to inside maximum volume hyperrectangle8 Sep 2026US 12,732,586 B2Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Hybrid digital and analog data storage4 Nov 2025US 12,462,841 B2Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Image processing apparatus, threshold matrix generation apparatus, control methods therefor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium26 Aug 2025US 12,397,548 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image processing apparatus, printing apparatus, and image processing method for converting image data into dot data19 Aug 2025US 12,395,600 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Mobile terminal having a light source and an application to extract embedded information from an illuminated printed image and method8 Jul 2025US 12,356,085 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Reading apparatus, reading method, and storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313062 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image processing apparatus and image processing method15 Jan 2026US 2026/0017802 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Printing device, printing method, and image processing device2 Oct 2025US 2025/0310463 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Hybrid Digital and Analog Data Storage17 Apr 2025US 2025/0124952 A1Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Method of generating a multiplexed image for printing17 Apr 2025US 2025/0126219 A1Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
Most cited
By later US patents
- Image rendering system and method for generating stochastic threshold arrays for use therewith194US 5,745,660 APolaroid Corporation · 1998
- Microelectronic programmable device and methods of forming and programming the same137US 6,635,914 B2Axon Technologies Corporation · 2003
- Method and apparatus for halftone rendering of a gray scale image using a blue noise mask127US 5,726,772 AResearch Corporation Technologies, Inc. · 1998
- Method of and system for reproducing or transmitting half-tone images124US 4,342,051 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1982
- Method and apparatus for halftone rendering of a gray image using a blue noise mask121US 5,543,941 AResearch Corporation Technologies, Inc. · 1996