Ink estimation mechanism
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsVincent Ferreri, Walter F. Kailey, Nikita Gurudath, Mikel Stanich
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Abstract
A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store ink estimation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the ink estimation logic to receive one or more gray level histograms, receive one or more halftone designs and generate estimated ink usage data for each of one or more color planes based on the gray level histograms and the halftone designs, wherein each gray level histogram corresponds to one of the one or more color planes, and each halftone design corresponds to one of the one or more color planes.
Claims20
A printing system comprising:
- at least one physical memory device to store ink estimation logic;
- and
- one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the ink estimation logic to receive one or more gray level histograms, receive one or more multi-bit halftone designs and generate estimated ink usage data for each of one or more color planes based on the gray level histograms and the multi-bit halftone designs, wherein each gray level histogram corresponds to one of the one or more color planes, and each multi-bit halftone design corresponds to a selection of a drop size from a plurality of non-zero drop sizes at each of a plurality of pixel locations for each of the one or more color planes.
At least one non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to:
- receive one or more gray level histograms, wherein each gray level histogram corresponds to one of the one or more color planes;
- receive one or more multi-bit halftone designs, wherein each multi-bit halftone design corresponds to a selection of a drop size from a plurality of non-zero drop sizes at each of a plurality of pixel locations for each of the one or more color planes;
- and
- generate estimated ink usage data for each of one or more color planes based on the gray level histograms and the multi-bit halftone designs.
A method comprising:
- receiving one or more gray level histograms, wherein each gray level histogram corresponds to one of the one or more color planes;
- receiving one or more multi-bit halftone designs, wherein each multi-bit halftone design corresponds to a selection of a drop size from a plurality of non-zero drop sizes at each of a plurality of pixel locations for each of the one or more color planes;
- and
- generating estimated ink usage data for each of one or more color planes based on the gray level histograms and the multi-bit halftone designs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.