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US 8,300,263 B2Granted
Forming images with minimum feature sizes
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorDouglas C. Smythies
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Abstract
A method for forming an image on recording media includes providing a support adapted to receive the recording apparatus; providing a controller programmed for controlling a print head to form the image on the recording media in accordance with image data corresponding to the image; determining a minimum feature size; and operating the print head to form the image on the recording media, wherein the image comprises a feature having a size that is restricted to be at least equal to the minimum feature size.
Claims25
A method for forming an image on recording media, comprising:
- providing a support adapted to receive the recording media;
- providing a controller programmed for controlling a print head to form the image on the recording media in accordance with image data corresponding to the image;
- determining a minimum feature size;
- operating the print head to form the image on the recording media, wherein the image comprises a feature having a size that is restricted to be at least equal to the minimum feature size;
- and
- operating the print head to form a plurality of sub-images on the recording media;
- wherein the plurality of sub-images are stitched together to form the image with a stitching pattern that is determined based at least on the minimum feature size.
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A method for forming an image on recording media, comprising:
- providing a support adapted to receive the recording media:
- providing a controller programmed for controlling a print head to form the image on the recording media in accordance with image data corresponding to the image;
- determining a minimum feature size;
- operating the print head to form the image on the recording media, wherein the image comprises a feature having a size that is restricted to be at least equal to the minimum feature size;
- and
- operating the print head to form a plurality of sub-images on the recording media;
- wherein a portion of the feature can be formed in each of a first sub-image of the plurality of sub-images and a second sub-image of the plurality of sub-images.
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A method for forming an image on recording media, comprising:
- providing a support adapted to receive the recording media;
- providing a controller programmed for controlling a print head to form the image on the recording media in accordance with image data corresponding to the image;
- determining a minimum feature size;
- operating the print head to form the image on the recording media, wherein the image comprises a feature having a size that is restricted to be at least equal to the minimum feature size;
- operating the print head to form a first sub-image and a second sub-image on the recording media, wherein a portion of the feature can be formed on a region of the recording media corresponding to overlapping portions of the first sub-image and the second sub-image and an additional portion of the feature can be formed on a region of the recording media not corresponding to the overlapping portions of the first sub-image and the second sub-image;
- determining if the size of the additional portion of the feature is less than the minimum feature size;
- and
- forming both the portion of the feature and the additional portion of the feature in one of the first sub-image and the second sub-image in the event that it is determined that the size of the additional portion of the feature is less than the minimum feature size.
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A method for forming an image on recording media, comprising:
- providing a support adapted to receive the recording media;
- providing a controller programmed for controlling a print head to form the image on the recording media in accordance with image data corresponding to the image;
- determining a minimum feature size;
- operating the print head to form the image on the recording media, wherein the image comprises a feature having a size that is restricted to be at least equal to the minimum feature size;
- operating the print head to form a first sub-image and a second sub-image on the recording media, wherein a portion of the feature can be formed on a region of the recording media corresponding to overlapping portions of the first sub-image and the second sub-image and an additional portion of the feature can be formed on a region of the recording media not corresponding to the overlapping portions of the first sub-image and the second sub-image;
- determining if the size of the portion of the feature is less than the minimum feature size;
- determining if the size of the additional portion of the feature is less than the minimum feature size;
- and
- forming both the portion of the feature and the additional portion of the feature in one of the first sub-image and the second sub-image in the event that it is determined that the size of either the portion of the feature or the size of the additional portion of the feature is less than the minimum feature size.
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A program on a non-transitory computer readable medium carrying a set of computer-readable instructions which, when executed by a controller, cause the controller to:
- provide image data to a print head which includes an arrangement of individually addressable marking elements adapted to form an arrangement of image elements on recording media in accordance with the image data;
- control the print head to form an image on the recording media with a plurality of sub-images;
- determine if a portion of a feature of the image that is to be formed on the recording media in a first sub-image of the plurality of sub-images has a size that is less than a selected minimum feature size value;
- and
- in the event that it is determined that the size of the portion of the feature is less than the minimum feature size value, adjust a part of the image data to form the portion of feature in a sub-image of the plurality of sub-images with a size that is not less than the minimum feature size.
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A program on a non-transitory computer readable medium carrying a set of computer-readable instructions which, when executed by a controller, cause the controller to:
- provide image data to a print head which includes an arrangement of individually addressable marking elements adapted to form rows and columns of image elements on recording media in accordance with the image data;
- control the print head to form an image on the recording media with a plurality of sub-images;
- each of the sub-images corresponding to a part of the image data;
- determine if a portion of a feature of the image that is to be formed on the recordable media with a row of the image elements intersects a boundary of a first sub-image of the plurality of sub-images that the portion of the feature is to be formed in;
- determine if the portion of the feature has a size that is less than a selected minimum feature size value;
- and
- in the event that it is determined that the portion of the feature intersects the boundary and has a size that is less than the selected minimum feature size value, scrub data representing the portion of the feature from a first part of the image data corresponding to the first sub-image;
- adjust a second part of the image data corresponding to a second sub-image of the plurality of sub-images to include corresponding data representing the portion of the feature;
- and form the portion of the feature in the second sub-image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.