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(19) United States (12) Reissued Patent

(10) Patent Number:

Bybell et a].

(45) Date of Reissued Patent:

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Inventors: Daniel P. Bybell, Medford, MA (US); Jay E. Thornton, Watertown, MA (US); Dana F. Schuh, Windham, NH (US) .

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In one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided

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for producing a halftone of a source image. The halftone

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ABSTRACT

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containing halftone dots. The method selects glyphs corre

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sponding to intensities of regions (e.g., pixels) in the source image. The glyphs contain one or more halftone dots. The method locates halftone dots Within the halftone pixels such that for at least one pair of halftone dots contained Within a pair of halftone pixels sharing a common boundary, the half

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For each 2X2 array A‘ of pixels in the source image

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