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US 4920501 A Abstract A digital halftone image is produced by providing a binary bit image pattern having a minimum visual noise for each density level in an image. The patterns are produced by employing a stochastic combinatorial minimization technique and a human visual system modulation transfer function (MTF) weighting function to generate a halftone pattern for each density level of the multi-level digital image signal. A halftone image is produced by modularly addressing these patterns with each pixel value in the image.
Claims(18) 1. A method of generating a halftone image with an electronic digital computer, comprising the steps of:
a. providing a set of minimum visual noise L�M bit binery patterns by employing a stochastic combinatorial minimization technique and a human visual modulation transfer function (MTF) weighting function to generate a halftone bit pattern for each density level of the multi-level digital image signal, each pattern corresponding to a possible density level of a multiple level digital image signal; b. providing a digital image having pixel values representing density levels; and c. for each pixel value of the digital image signal, modularly selecting a portion of the binary bit pattern from the corresponding pattern of the set by addressing the bit pattern with lower significant bits of an x,y pixel address associated with each pixel, and employing the selected portion to form the halftone image. 2. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the digital image signal is provided by a computer programmed to generate graphic images.
3. The method claimed in claim 1 wherein the bit patterns are the same resolution as the digital image, and the selected portion of the bit pattern is one bit.
4. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the bit patterns are of higher resolution than the digital image, and the selected portion of the bit pattern is a block of bits.
5. A method of generating a halftone image with an electronic digital computer, comprising the steps of:
a. providing a set of minimum visual noise L�M bit binary patterns, each pattern corresponding to a possible density level of a multiple level digital image signal; b. providing a digital image having pixel values representing density levels; and c. for a given pixel value of the digital image signal, (1) modularly selecting a future portion of an N�N neighborhood of binary values from the corresponding binary bit pattern by addressing the bit pattern with lower significant bits of an x,y pixel address associated with each pixel, (2) combining the future portion of selected binary values with a past portion of an N�N neighborhood of previously determined binary bits to form a combined neighborhood of binary bits, (3) applying a visual blur function to the combined neighborhood of binary bits to produce a perceived output value, (4) repeating steps (1) through (3) for a plurality of neighboring pixel values to produce a plurality of estimated perceived output values, (5) computing the difference between the respective estimated perceived output values and the given pixel value and neighboring pixel values to form error values and determining the minimum error value, and (6) generating the halftone image by placing the binary bit pattern from the minimum visual noise pattern corresponding to the pixel value associated with the minimum error value computed in step 5 at each corresponding pixel location. 6. The method claimed in claim 5, wherein the digital image signal is provided by scanning and digitizing a continuous tone image.
7. The method claimed in claim 5, wherein the future portion corresponds to the next two values in a row following the modular address (the lower significant bits of the pixel address) of the given pixel and five pixels in each of the next two rows centered on the modular address of the given pixel, and the past neighborhood corresponds to the two values in a row preceding the modular address of the given pixel, and five values in each of two preceding rows, centered on the modular address of the given pixel.
8. The method claimed in claim 5 wherein the step of providing a set of minimum visual noise binary bit patterns comprises employing a stochastic combinatorial minimization technique and a human visual system modulation transfer function (MTF) weighting function to generate a halftone bit pattern for each density level of the multi-level digital image signal.
9. The method claimed in claim 5, wherein N=5, and the blur function is: ##EQU9##
10. A method of generating a halftone image with an electronic digital computer, comprising the steps of:
a. providing a set of minimum visual noise L�M bit binary patterns by employing a stochastic combinatorial minimization technique and a human visual system modulation transfer function (MTF) weighting function to generate a halftone bit pattern for each density level of the multi-level digital image signal, each pattern corresponding to a possible density level of a multiple level digital image signal; b. providing a digital image having pixel values representing density levels; c. for successive two-dimensional blocks of pixel values in the digital image, (1) calculating the mean value of the pixels in the block, (2) modularly selecting a portion of the binary bit pattern corresponding to the mean pixel value by addressing the binary bit pattern with lower significant bits of an x,y address corresponding to the location of the two-dimensional blocks of pixel values, (3) detecting a two-dimensional slope in the pixel values across the block, (4) performing a spatial transformation on the selected portion of the bit pattern to shift the spatial position of binary values in proportion to the detected slope, and (5) employing the transformed selected portion of the bit pattern to form the halftone image. 11. The method claimed in claim 1, 10 or 8, wherein the stochastic combinatorial miniminzation technique is stochastic annealing.
12. The method claimed in claim 11, wherein the stochastic annealing process comprises the steps of:
a. initializing a random pattern of binary bits with p ones, where p is proportional to the density level for the pattern; b. calculating a cost function according to the equation ##EQU10## where i,j are x,y spatial frequency indices, representing an output pixel rate, Vi,j is a human visual MTF scaled to the output pixel rate, Pi,j is the discrete fourier transform (DFT) of the pattern, and * represents complex conjugation; c. randomly switching a pair of "1's" and "0's" in the bit pattern to form a new pattern and calculating a new cost according to step b; d. calculating a test statistic q to determine if the new cost is from a lower cost random process, given by ##EQU11## where Δcost=new cost-cost, and T is a normalization parameter set initially such that substantially 80% of new patterns will be determined to be from a lower cost random process even when Δcost is greater than 0; e. replace the random pattern with the new pattern if q>1 or q≦1 and ε≦q, where ε is a uniform random number between 0 and 1, otherwise, reject the new pattern and retain the previous pattern; f. repeat steps c. through e. about 1500 times; g. decrease T to kT where k is about 0.95 and repeat steps c. through f.; and h. repeat steps c. through g until the cost at successive decreases in T are no longer changing or until about 300 decreases in T have occurred. 13. The method claimed in claim 12, wherein the stochastic annealing process is performed on a super computer.
14. The method claimed in claim 1, 5, or 10, wherein the digital image is a color image having a plurality of color components, and the method is performed on each color component.
15. The method claimed in claim 1, 5, or 10, wherein the bit patterns are 32 by 32 bits.
16. The method claimed in claim 1, 5, or 10, wherein the step of modularly selecting comprises employing lower significant bits of an x,y pixel address to address a bit pattern memory.
17. The method claimed in claim 10, wherein said successive two-dimensional pixel blocks are 16�16 blocks, which overlap one pixel in the horizontal and vertical directions.
18. The method claimed in claim 10, wherein step c. further comprises the steps of:
a. detecting the presence of a sharp edge within the block, and b. where an edge is detected, decomposing the block into a plurality of sub-blocks and processing each sub-block independently. Description The present invention relates to the field of digital image processing and more particularly to a method for digital halftoning continuous-tone color images or generating of constant color image regions using a data base of minimum visual modulation bit-map patterns. Digital halftoning for the purpose of generating color images with multiple levels has been practical since the mid 1960's (see, for example, "Picture Generation with a Standard Line Printer" by Perry and Mendelsohn, Comm. of the ACM, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 311-313). The two major techniques that are in current use are dithering and error diffusion See Digital Halftoning by Ulichney, MIT Press., Cambridge, Mass., pages 77-79, 127, 239-240. The prime dithering techniques are random dither, clustered-dot dither, and dispersed-dot dither. Random dither was developed first but it is rarely used because it produces the poorest quality image. The other two dither techniques are used with clustered-dot being by far the most prevalent. They are both based on a threshold screen pattern that is generally a fixed size, e.g. 8�8 image pixels, which is compared with the input digital image values. If the input digital value is greater than the screen pattern number, the output is set `on`, i.e. 255 for an 8 bit input image, and if it is less, the output is set to 0. The difference between the two techniques is that the lower threshold values are centered in the clustered-dot screen pattern whereas they are scattered in the dispersed-dot screen pattern. As such the clustered-dot technique will have a central dot that increases in size as the signal level increases and the dispersed-dot technique will have small scattered dots that increase in number as the signal level increases. In both techniques the number of levels that can be represented is equal to the size in pixels of the screen pattern, e.g. an 8�8 screen can produce 64 unique levels. Larger patterns mean more levels but also a reduction in the effective resolution because the ability to transition among levels is at a coarser pitch. At the medium pixel rate of copiers and laser printers, e.g. 300-500 dots/inch, the pattern artifacts are visible for screen patterns larger than 4�4, and since 16 levels are inadequate precision for typical continuous-tone color imagery a suboptimal resolution/level tradeoff is necessary. This resolution density level tradeoff is illustrated in FIG. 1. A second drawback of dithering is that the pattern for a given level is based on adding an `on` to the pattern of the previous level. This highly constrains the ability to design patterns that have minimal perceived binary noise or modulation at all levels. Efforts to do this for dispersed-dot dither (see "An Optimum Method for Two-Level Rendition of Continuous-Tone Pictures" by B. E. Bayer, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Comm. Conference Record, pp. (26-11)-(25-15)) have been severely limited by the requirements for a single screen pattern and a small screen size. Such considerations have led to an increased interest in error diffusion for medium resolution applications. Error diffusion is fundamentally different from dither in that there is no fixed screen pattern. Instead a recursive algorithm is used that attempts to casually correct errors made by representing the continuous input signal by binary values. The two major components are a matrix of fractions that weight past errors and a threshold operator based on the sum of those weighted errors and the current pixel that determines whether to output an `on` or an `off`. The best error diffusion techniques are two-dimensional, meaning that the error is fed back from previous lines as well as previous pixels. The error feedback mechanism is usually linear in that the sum error is a weighted version of past errors, but the thresholding is highly non-linear making the compound process non-linear. Approximating thresholding as signal-dependent gain, it can be shown that for positive error weights that the output binary signal will be high-pass in uniform regions thus introducing `blue noise` into the image (see Ulichney cited above). This `blue noise` spectrum is shown in FIG. 2. As discussed by Ulichney this `blue noise` is a very favorable feature of error diffusion because the perception of this noise will be reduced by the low-pass filtering of the visual system causing a higher perceived signal-to-noise ratio. Unfortunately the error weights are indirectly related to this preferred noise characteristic and therefore provide suboptimal control, and for certain signal levels the causal feedback can become visually unstable generating correlated patterns or `worms` that are highly objectionable. The most common solution is to randomly modulate the weights which reduces the `worms` but also increases the noise. It is the object of the present invention to provide a new digital halftoning technique that improves the image quality over the aforementioned techniques for all classes of images of interest to a human observer including constant signal levels such as those generated by computer graphics. The objects of the present invention are achieved by designing and storing large, e.g. 32�32 pixels, bit-map patterns for each density level in an image, that have minimum visual noise and modularly addressing those patterns with each pixel value in the image. In a preferred mode of practicing the invention, the bit-map patterns are produced using a combinatorial minimization algorithm called stochastic annealing and a human visual system MTF weighting function to weight the discrete Fourier Transform of each pattern to determine the perceived noise. Each pattern corresponding to an input signal level is produced independently and stored as part of a data base. In a process suitable for computer generated graphics having regions of uniform tone, for each pixel value in a digital image signal, a portion of the corresponding binary bit pattern is modularly selected to form the halftone image. For a digital image produced by scanning a continuous tone image the process includes the following steps. For a given pixel value of the digital image signal, modularly select a future portion of an N�N neighborhood of binary values from the corresponding bit pattern. Combine the future neighborhood of selected binary values with the past portion of the N�N neighborhood of previously selected binary bits to form a combined neighborhood of binary bits. Apply a visual blur function to the combined neighborhood of binary bits to produce a perceived output value. Repeat the previous steps for a plurality of neighboring pixel values to produce a plurality of perceived values. Compute the different between the respective perceived values and the given pixel value to form difference values. Replace the given pixel value with the binary value from the bit pattern that has the minimum difference value to produce the halftone image. As used herein, the term modularly select means to address a portion of a bit pattern with the lower significant bits of an x,y pixel address. The effect of modularly addressing the bit patterns is that of tiling the image with each of the bit patterns, and selecting the portion of each bit pattern that overlaps the pixel being processed. For a system with an input pixel spacing that is larger than the output pixel spacing by an integer factor M, the halftoning steps are equivalent except that an M�M bit-map pattern is outputted for each input pixel. FIG. 1 is a graph illustrating the resolution versus number of levels tradeoff of conventional fixed screen dither; FIG. 2 is a graph showing the "blue noise" spectrum of the high frequency noise that results from conventional error diffusion; FIG. 3 is a graph showing the human visual system transfer function used to weight the discrete Fourier Transform of the bit-map pattern in the stochastic annealing process; FIG. 4a is an example of an initial random bit-map pattern for a mean level of 1/8th or 128 `on` dots; FIG. 4b is an example of a final minimum cost bit-map pattern for a mean level of 1/8th or 128 `on` dots; FIG. 5 is a graph showing the relative visual error cost at each T value for the annealing process that generates the pattern in 6b; FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the halftone image processing technique according to the present invention for constant tone graphics; FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the addressing of the data base as the input image is processed; FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the halftone image processing technique for continuous tone images; FIG. 9 is a sketch illustrating the combination of past binary values and future bit-map patterns to determine the pattern from which the current binary value is to be selected; FIG. 10 shows an unnormalized 5�5 human visual system blur matrix used for weighting the bit-maps to select the data base that provides minimum local visual error; FIG. 11 is a flow chart illustrating the logic flow for the halftoning technique according to the present invention; FIG. 12 is a sketch of the block overlap and average pixel and line regions used in calculating horizontal and vertical slopes for shifting `on` dots to account for mean shifts in input image blocks; FIG. 13 is a graph showing the one-dimensional linear mapping of dot spacings to shift local output means across image blocks; and FIG. 14 is a graph showing the one-dimensional quadratic mapping of dot positions to shift local output means across image blocks. The method of generating a halftone image according to the present invention involves designing minimum visual modulation bit-map patterns for each image signal density level, selecting the pattern corresponding to a pixel density level, and modularly addressing the pattern to select bits to be used in the halftone image. The bit-map pattern design will be described first, followed by a description of the addressing and pattern selection processes. The goal of the bit-map pattern design is to minimize the visually perceived modulation for a pattern of zeroes and ones that on average represent a particular signal level. This requires the definition of visual modulation or cost for a given pattern and a method for minimizing the cost. For normal viewing distances, i.e. 10 inches, the effective two-dimensional modulation transfer function or MTF of the human visual system is shown in FIG. 3. It shows the low-pass filter characteristic of the vision system and the loss of sensitivity at 45 degrees corresponding to the dip in the MTF surface at that angle. This function is given by: ##EQU1## where the constants a,b,c, and d can be calculated by regression fits of horizontal and vertical modulation data to be 2.2, 0.192, 0.114, and 1.1 respectively. fv.sbsb.ij is the radial spatial frequency in cycles per degree of visual subtense, scaled for a given viewing distance, and fmax is the frequency in cycles per degree at which the function Vij peaks. fv.sbsb.ij is calculated as: fvij =fv.sbsb.ij /sij (Θ), (2) where ##EQU2## where dis=viewing distance in mm ##EQU3## To evaluate the cost for a particular 32�32 pattern, the modulus of the discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of the pattern is calculated and multiplied by the visual MTF and summed. That is ##EQU4## where i,j are x,y spatial frequency indices with i,j=32 representing the output binary pixel rate, Vij is the visual MTF scaled to the output pixel rate, Pij is the pattern DFT, and * represents complex conjugation. The Fourier domain was chosen for the minimization because the DFT assumes that the input is periodically replicated in a tile fashion over all space which is consistent with the modular addressing of the pattern to be described later. A 32�32 region was chosen to allow for enough degrees of freedom in the Fourier domain to shape the noise into a `blue noise` spectrum as in FIG. 2 without the excessive complexity of larger areas, and because it easily accommodates the 256 levels on an 8 bit input signal with each level corresponding to four `on` dots. The number of ways to turn p dots `on` out of 1024 is given by ##EQU5## which for all but a few high and low values of n is so large that a brute force search for the minimum cost pattern is not feasible. Resort was therefore made to a probabilistic minimization technique called stochastic annealing or stochastic relaxation (see for example, "Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and Bayesian Restoration of Images" by S. Geman and D. Geman, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Vol PAMI-6, No. 6, Nov. 1984, pp. 721-741). The key feature of this iterative technique as compared to more aggressive minimization techniques such as steepest descent (see any text on numerical analysis) is that it can escape from a local minimum by accepting cost increases at each iteration with a decreasing but greater than zero probability. The process includes the following steps: 1. Initialize a given density level pattern with random positions for `on` dots, where p is a number that is proportional to the given density; 2. Calculate the cost using equation (4); 3. Randomly switch a pair of the on/off dots and calculate a new cost using equation (4); 4. Calculate a test statistic q for determining if the new pattern is from a lower cost random process given by; ##EQU6## where Δcost=new cost-previous cost, and T is a normalization parameter set initially such that a large percentage, e.g. 80%, of new patterns will be judged to be from a lower cost random process even if the Δcost is greater than 0; 5. If q>1, i.e. Δcost<0, accept the new pattern. If q≦1, accept the new pattern if ε≦q, where ε is a uniform random number between 0 and 1, and reject the new pattern and revert to the previous pattern if ε>q; 6. After many loops of steps 3-5, e.g. 1500, decrease T to kT where k<1, e.g. 0.95, and go to step 3 so that positive Δcost values are accepted with a geometrically decreasing likelihood as the search proceeds; 7. Stop when the cost at successive decreases in T are no longer changing or when a fixed number of decreases have occurred, e.g. 300. A computer program, written in the fortran program language, for performing the above steps is included in Appendix A. This program was executed on a CRAYII� super computer to produce a set of 256 minimum visual noise binary bit patterns, corresponding to 256 density levels. FIGS. 4a and 4b show the `on` pixel positions of the initial random pattern and the final minimum cost pattern for a mean value of 1/8th or 128 `on` dots that resulted from a single run of this process. As the figures show, the final pattern appears random but in fact is more spatially regularized without large gaps or clumps which lead to undesirable low frequency modulation. FIG. 5 shows the progression of cost estimates at each decrease in T with each temporary dip in the curve being a local minimum from which the minimization process escaped. In addition, empirical results indicate that multiple runs produce slightly different final patterns due to the inherent randomness of the search process and that better results can be achieved by selecting the pattern with the lowest final cost from a small number of independent searches, e.g. 10. Referring now to FIG. 6, the method of generating a halftone image according to one mode of the present invention is illustrated schematically. A digital monochrome image composed of regions of constant tone is generated by an input device 10 such as a personal computer programmed to generate graphics. The digital image is supplied as 8 bit pixel values representing one of 256 density levels. The x,y location of each pixel on a page is identified by two 16-bit words. Two hundred fifty-six 32�32 bit halftone dot patterns (12) generated on a super computer as described above are stored in a bit pattern memory 14. As illustrated schematically in FIG. 7, the 8 bit density level for a pixel 16 from the image 18 is employed to select the corresponding halftone dot pattern. The 5 least significant bits of the x and y pixel addresses are employed to modularly address the selected 32�32 bit halftone dot pattern and produce a halftone bit pattern (e.g. 1 bit if the resolution of the input image and the output image are the same) as an output. Referring to FIG. 6, the halftone bit pattern is supplied to a bit map page memory 20. The full 16 bit x,y pixel address is employed to address the page memory, and the halftone bit pattern is stored in the page memory 20 at the indicated pixel location. When the page memory is full, the contents are supplied to a medium resolution (e.g. 300-500 dots/inch) binary marking engine 22, such as a laser or ink jet printer. Alternatively, if the input is synchronized with the marking engine, the output of the bit pattern memory may be supplied directly to the marking engine without the need for a bit map page memory 20. The halftone dot pattern generation steps of the halftone image generation process described with reference to FIG. 6 is implemented simply by a programmable read only memory in which the halftone bit patterns are stored. If the resolution of the marking engine 18 is higher than the resolution of the image supplied by the input device 10, multi-bit portions of the halftone bit maps are supplied to the marking engine for each input pixel. The images produced by the above described technique for computer generated monochrome images at 400 dots per/inch composed of regions of constant tone show a significant improvement in perceived noise compared to dither and error diffusion techniques. When the above described method is applied to continuous tone digital images, such as those produced by scanning and digitizing a photograph, there is a perceived increase in noise due to the frequent switching between the halftone bit patterns in areas of gradually changing contrast. The noise was reduced for continuous tone images by a technique of monitoring the visibility of the noise introduced in the halftone image due to switching from one bit pattern to another for adjacent pixels. If the noise introduced by switching between halftone patterns is more than that which would be introduced by selecting a pattern corresponding to the density of the pixel, the pattern for the adjacent pixel is chosen. This improved technique for generating a halftone image from a continuous tone digital image will now be described with reference to FIG. 8. A continuous tone image 30 such as a photographic image is scanned by scanning apparatus 32, such as a video or graphic arts scanner. The scanner samples the image density at each sampling location (pixel) and digitizes the density value to 8 bits, or 256 levels. The x,y position of each pixel is supplied from the scanner as two 16-bit words. The 8 bit density for each pixel is employed to select a particular bit pattern in a halftone bit pattern memory 34 having 256 bit patterns generated as described previously. The 5 least significant bits of the x and y pixel addresses are employed to modularly address a portion of the selected halftone bit pattern. The portion of the bit pattern addressed is the binary value indicated by the address, the next two binary values in the row, and 5 binary values in each of two successive rows. These thirteen binary values represent the "future portion" in a 5�5 block of binary values centered on the location indicated by the address. FIG. 9 illustrates a 5�5 block (35) of pixels 36, where the current address location is indicated by an X, and the "future portion" 37 is indicated by cross hatching. In addition to the thirteen binary values from the selected pattern corresponding to the present density pixel value, 13 binary values are also selected from the patterns corresponding to the density of the previous pixel in the current line of pixels and the density of the pixel in the line immediately above the current pixel. The modular address employed for selecting these values is the same as the current pixel, but the density values are provided by a 1 line delay 40, and a one pixel delay 42. Each of these three patterns of 13 binary values is combined with 12 binary values representing a "past portion" 38 of the 5�5 block of binary values (see FIG. 9) to generate 5�5 blocks of binary values 44. The 12 binary values representing the "past portion" of the 5�5 blocks are supplied from a bit map page memory 46 (described below). Each of the 5�5 blocks of binary values is processed (48) by applying the 5�5 human visual system (HVS) blur filter. The coefficients of the HVS blur filter are shown in FIG. 10, and correspond to the values of the HVS function plotted in FIG. 3. To process the 5�5 blocks, the coefficients of the blur filter are multiplied by the corresponding binary values in the 5�5 blocks, and the results for each block are summed and normalized to the maximum density value. The absolute value of the nomalized sum of the blurred values from each of the three blocks is subtracted from the actual density value of the present pixel to determine the blur error. The minimum blur error is detected, and the binary bit from the pattern producing the minimum blur error is selected 50. This selected bit is the bit that produces the least visual error in the halftone pattern when the density level changes from one pixel to its nearest neighbor directly above or to the left. The selected bit is stored in the bit map page memory 46 at the location indicated by the current x,y address. When the page memory 46 is filled, the halftone dot pattern is sent to the marking engine 52. The halftone image generation process described in FIG. 8 is implemented by a programmed digital computer such as a microprocessor having a read only memory (ROM) for storing the halftone bit patterns or alternatively by a custom designed digital signal processing circuit for increased speed. The steps for programming a microprocessor to generate a halftone image from either a constant tone image (as described with reference to FIG. 6) or a continuous tone image (as described with reference to FIG. 8) will now be described with reference to FIG. 11. The following description assumes that the digital input image signal is presented to the halftoning apparatus in a linear raster scan. At the start of scan, the internal counter j for the line number and i for the pixel number are initialized as well as the non-image (border), i.e., (n<1, m<1), input and output boundaries Snm and Rnm (100, 104). The counters i and j are incremented by 1 (102, 106). The 5 least significant bits 1,k of i,j are isolated by a modulo-32 operation (108) and passed as a position pointer into the data base. A check is made for a constant tone image (110). If yes, the number of data base accesses s is set of 1 (112) and the current pixel value is used to address the appropriate bit-map in the data base (114). If no, the number of data base accesses s is set to 3 (116) and the current pixel as well as its two nearest neighbors are used to address the appropriate bit-maps in the data base (118). For each data base access the binary values in the bit-maps from 1-N/2→1+N/2 and k→k+N/2 excluding 1-N/2→1-1 for line k are extracted from the data base (120). The past outputted binary values for i-N/2→i+N/2 and j→j-N/2 excluding i→i+N/2 for line i are merged with the extracted binary values for each data base access (122). The N�N visual blur coefficients V(u) (124) are used to weight the merged binary fields to calculate the error for each data base access (126). The minimum error emin is calculated (128) and compared with the error for each data base access to determine which bit-map produced the minimum error (130). The binary value at 1,k from that bit-map is outputted at pixel i,j (132). A check is made for the end of line (134) and end of image (136). If not the end, the appropriate counters are reset or incremented and the outputted value is stored (138), else the output image is complete and the halftoning stops (140). An assumption in the halftoning technique just described for continuous tone scanned image data is that data base switching due to input signal variations do not significantly affect the preferred high frequency character of the bit-maps. Simulated images show that this is only partially true. Input scan noise and small pixel-to-pixel variations in low contrast image areas can cause low frequency gaps or dot-clumps at switching boundaries that were purposely suppressed in each bit-map. An alternative solution is to configure the switching mechanism to take into account local variations in the input slope. This can be accomplished on a block-by-block basis by estimating the horizontal and vertical slopes of an input block with the difference between the average pixel values and average line values at the beginning and end of the block. To avoid the appearance of visible block artifacts due to integer precision it is necessary to overlap successive blocks by one line and one column in this calculation. This block overlap is shown schematically in FIG. 12. The average value of the block is then used as the data base address and the slope of the pixel value in the blocks are used to shift the `on` dots in the data base so that the average distance between dots across the block correspond to the calculated slopes. This is accomplished by a quadratic mapping of integer coordinates that linearly adjust the dot placements. This is illustrated for one dimension in FIGS. 13 and 14 with the appropriate equations given by ##EQU7## where μo and μb are the average values at the beginning and end of a block of length b, μ is the average of the entire block, and the input positions x are the centers of each integer bin in the block starting from 0.5. The expected value of δx is 1/μ so that the expected value of δx' at X=O and X=b are 1/μo and 1/μb respectively. Since the spatial precision in each direction is one sample on input and output, it is necessary to approximate the above equations by selecting an integer number of dots d to move an integer number of samples. For a shift of one sample spacing this is ##EQU8## where D is the number of `on` dots in each column or line in the block, and Rnd means round to the nearest integer. For example, if the block is 16�16 and x' and D for the first column are 0.75 and 7 then d=Rnd((0.75-0.5)7)=Rnd(1.75)=2 meaning that two dots must be moved to the next column to appropriately decrease the mean value at the beginning of the block. The two dots to be moved can be selected randomly or by a rule such as move the dots with the most unfilled space in the direction of movement making sure that one pixel is never occupied by more than one dot. There will also be an error after each move given by E=x'-x-d/D which in the above example is -0.0357 meaning that more than the exact fractional number of dots were moved to the next column. This error can be ignored or propagated to the next column by adding it to the next x'. Since the column and line means are independent the columns can be shifted first followed by the lines. An additional improvement is to have a variable block size. This can be advantageous in regions that have a non-linear transition across a block such as a sharp edge. If the average block value given by μ is greater than a small central average by more than a threshold the block can be decomposed into four blocks of one-fourth the size with each sub-block processed independently. The halftoning technique may be applied to a color image having a plurality of color components, by performing the halftoning process independently on each component. The halftoning technique of the present invention is useful in systems that generate binary outputs from continuous tone input images or computer generated graphics. The invention has the advantage that it is optimal in terms of perceived noise in constant signal regions and does not have the periodic patterns of dithering or correlated directional noise of error diffusion. The method has implementation advantages over error diffusion because it does not require real multiplications. This is because the choice of data base address is based on a binary convolution which is merely an addition of the coefficients corresponding to `on` pixels, whereas error diffusion involves weighting the differences between input and output values which are not binary. In addition, the halftoning technique of the present invention requires less storage than error diffusion because only the single bit output image is stored as multiple lines, whereas in high-quality error diffusion (see, for example, the Stucki matrix in Digital Halftoning by Ulichney, MIT Press Cambridge, Mass.) multiple lines of the full-precision input image must be stored. ##SPC1## Patent Citations
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SEYMORE, Robert Wiley Jr., of Apex, N.C., entered into eternal rest and peace on December 3, 2012 at his home. Mr. Seymore was born on March 27, 1974 in Richmond, Va., to Robert W. Seymore Sr. and Dorothy Brown Seymore. He graduated from Lake Brantley High School in Longwood, Fla., and continued his education at Waylan Baptist College in San Antonio, Texas, earning his bachelor's degree. He also served four years in the U.S. Air Force and was a retired police officer for B.A.R.T. in the Bay Area of California. Mr. Seymore was an avid sports fan; he enjoyed teaching and coaching his children in football, basketball, soccer and baseball. He is survived by his children, Robert W. Seymore III, Alexandra Elaine Seymore and Abigail Grace Seymore; his parents, Robert W. Seymore Sr. and wife, Sherri Via Seymore, of Bristol, Tenn.; his mother, Dorothy Brown Seymore of Longwood, Fla.; his sister, Christine Seymore Zuclich; and his brother, Stuart C. Seymore, both of Longwood, Fla.; and his maternal grandmother, Louise Brown of Sandston, Va.; also numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. The family will receive friends on Friday, December 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Parham Chapel, Woody Funeral Home, 1771 N. Parham Road, and where a funeral service will be held Saturday, December 8, at
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Police say it was a robbery attempt gone bad Sunday night in east Charlotte, and they say a would-be suspect is hospitalized as a result.
The incident happened about 11:20 p.m. in the parking lot of the McDonalds restaurant on Albemarle Road at Farm Pond Lane.
According to police, two armed men confronted another man in the parking lot and tried to rob him. The would-be victim, however, pulled out a gun and shot one of the suspects in the stomach. Police say the victim then ran off.
The wounded suspect was taken by MEDIC to Carolinas Medical Center with wounds that police say are not life-threatening. Robbery detectives are investigating the case.
Police called it a "robbery attempt gone bad". I would call it a robbery attempt gone good!!


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What is the HP story against Cisco Unified Compute System?
I think the difference with Hewlett-Packard is we develop server, network and storage from the ground up to work together versus kind of taking multiple products from multiple companies putting them in a rack and saying it is an integrated architected solution. It is a difference between architected solutions all designed by one company and serviced by one company versus piece parts by multiple companies that quite frankly are now starting to compete with each other. So it is going to be very interesting to see down the road if you are a customer that says, 'Well gee, my partners are now all competitors. How is that going to work out -- particularly over the long term?' With us, you have the certainty that we are one company, one architecture, one throat to choke.
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The False Prince
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Add a CommentStill confused of how this book was so good? Like it was so solid and so consistent through out, I'm super impressed. Definitely would recommend!
This book is more than AWESOME!!! This has been my favorite book so far in life and ive read a lot of books but this is number one. The main character is soooooo clever in this one and in the last one : the shadow throne.
I just LOVE this book soooooo much!! I could spend the whole day on re-finishing it!! [second time reading]
The False Prince is a thrilling book! I just started to read the second book: The Runaway King. I'm waiting for the third book, can't wait to read the whole series! :)
Move over, Little Orphan Annie, there's a new plucky child on the scene. Snatched from an orphanage by a ruthless nobleman named Connor, Sage is streetwise, agile, and wary. His companions on this forced journey are cold-blooded, ambitious adults and three other parentless children. As the group travels toward the kingdom of Carthya's capital city, the similar-looking orphans realize that they are pawns in Connor's plan to place one of them on the throne as a puppet king. Whoever is not chosen will be deemed... dispensable. With that threat looming over their heads, the boys compete to be chosen as the false prince. Each of them share at least one characteristic with the prince who has been missing for years: an affinity for horses, a natural ability for swordplay, an aptitude for sleight-of-hand, an understanding of political ramifications, etc.
An solid adventure story with some surprising plot twists, Nielsen's novel was thoroughly enjoyable. Recommended for as a read-alike for juvenile fans of Suzanne Collins or Garth Nix.
this book is by far my most favorite book of all it was to thrilling to see my favorite person was mott he was to inspiring and i liked lattermer because he stood up for what was right even though it was the wrong chocie.
I'm of two minds in reviewing this because I was of two minds reading it.
On one side was the experienced, critical adult reader who was thinking things like:
- (Cringe) This dialogue is so hokey and unrealistic. These characters wouldn't think, talk, or react like this based on the settings and backgrounds that have been created for them. The dynamics of their interactions don't reflect real people in the least.
- The character is baldly lying to us in his narration. If the surprise reveal that I'm expecting occurs (it did), then he is not only being cagey in his responses to the other characters, he's being false with us readers in ways the author doesn't seem to intend.
- The surprise reveal is so obvious!
On the other side was the enthusiastic reader who was willing to suspend disbelief and criticism for a fun story. That part of me got caught up in the narration, was thrilled by the suspense, and cheered for the character(s). And it's the part I suspect is most like the average young reader who will engage with this book.
I can't say this was a perfectly told story for me, but I think it's one that will work for its intended audience quite well and I will recommend it with that thought in mind.
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"Carthya's not my country," I said, reaching for the doors to leave. "Frankly, I hope Avenia destroys it."
"She was too fat to credibly claim she starved along with the rest of us, but strong enough to beat anyone who complained about that fact."
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sage has to go on a long quest to become a false prince. one his quest he meets enemys and freinds who will help him to become who he is ment to be.
Sage has never been keen on the fact that he was an orphan but usually the trouble he got into was something he could handle. No longer. When Sage finds himself essentially sold to a nobleman named Conner it doesn't take long for him to discover that he is now a pawn in a dangerous game. Alongside three other orphans of similar age and build Sage is in the competition of a lifetime. If he wins he will be crowned as prince (the real ruler having died years ago). If he loses he will be killed. It's the ultimate competition and the stakes are as high as they can be. Part mystery novel, part psychological war, you may see where the book is going at times but you'll never forget the journey.


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David Newland is a writer, adventurer, musician and host with a passion for the Canadian experience.
Born in Ottawa, raised on the shores of Georgian Bay near Parry Sound, David crisscrossed Canada and travelled the world before settling in Cobourg, Ontario. His travels continue with voyages to remote wilderness destinations including the Northwest Passage as a performer, host and Zodiac driver with Adventure Canada.
As a singer, story-teller and poet, David Newland is whimsical and poignant. His songwriting constantly returns to nature, to small towns and old ways, but with a contemporary, up-beat delivery on ukulele or guitar. His stage patter is unique: random, funny, and profound — sometimes in a single spontaneous sentence. He frequently performs selections of 'Zen Canadiana' poetry as spoken word pieces.
His new album 'Give it a Whirl', produced by Gregg Lawless, showcases David Newland's warm, welcoming voice and distinctive songwriting. The CD features the talents of John Sheard, George Koller, Dala, Kirsten Jones, and members of Quartette, The Good Lovelies and The Bebop Cowboys.
David has released two live CDs, Evergreen, in 2003 and Roll Away in 2005.
David Newland's success as a songwriter includes Riding on the Railway, the theme song for the CTV feature Canada's Greatest Ride, in which David also appears and performs on a train crossing Canada. David's canoe anthem Faster Than You Know won "Best Music" at the Waterwalker Film Festival, and ukulele favourite That's the Miracle was featured prominently in CBC's The Gospel According to Uke.
Widely appreciated as a stage host, David Newland has been the MC for numerous festivals, including Summerfolk, Mariposa, and Lunenburg Folk Harbour, as well as the Gordon Lightfoot tribute concert The Way We Feel, Johnny Cash tribute Till Things Are Brighter, and Pete Seeger tribute For The Love of Pete.
David Newland was the founding editor of Roots Music Canada. He has published nearly a thousand blog posts and his articles have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers. David Newland contributed to 2 Gold Medals for Macleans.ca in the 2012 Canadian Online Publishing awards.
In October of 2011 David was awarded a Writers' Works in Progress grant from the Ontario Arts Council to work on his first novel.


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Maru Tole
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This tole (street) leads you away from Durbar Sq down to the Vishnumati River, where a footbridge continues the pathway to Swayambhunath. This was a busy street in the hippie era but the famous pastry shops that gave it the nickname 'Pie Alley' have long gone. Just 30m from Durbar Sq down Maru Tole is Maru Hiti , one of the finest sunken water conduits in the city.


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HapPy NeW YeAr! From My True Roots!
This is the year "I claim it" in 2015 to be a new Cousin FOUND Kind of Year! through Paper trail or DNA.
Go Take a Look!
Let me know If We have "Someone" in common. I'm always looking for Family and anything you add to my Ancestors Story in the Tree of Life. I embrace you here!
I'll be following Thomas MacEntee for a 13 week Do-Over to help me fix years of Research and giving it a well needed tuneup! You can follow us along at Geneabloggers!
So here I come 2015! Ancestors and All! possibly a Surprise in the Mix! Wishing all my Fellow Bloggers for all the Best. I'll be visiting you! to see what your stories your Kin have to tell!
Happy Hunting!
Family Surnames:
Barnes, Barrick, Bergstresser, Boggs, Bobbenmeyer, Brunson, Bryant, Burd., Cassel, Clowes, Collier, Christen, Daniel, Dix, Evans, Eichelberger,Floyd, Ford, Fortson, Glenn, Grosin, Hampton, Hatcher, Haynes, Heckman from the Netherlands, Henry, Henderson,Hill, Hinde, Hooks, Hutchinson, Ivery, Johnson (Euro and SSA) Jordan, Jordan,King, Klinepeter, Knisler, Kost, Kumpf, Kompt, Lambert, Leiby, Lewis, Lippert, Loy, McDonald, Miles,Mixell, Nobles, Oiler, Penn, Person, Poppenmyer, Rhodes, Reitenauer, Sankey, Sellers,Sharp, Shover, Simmons, Smart, Stein,Swanger, Sweigard, Tarver,Thurrin, There are names that I don't know. Don't just go by my surnames. We could still find a connection on something we don't know., variants of Ivery/Ivey, variants of Lambertie, Walker, Watson, Weichlein, Willis,Whisler, White, Wright,Wolfe, Woods, Zimmerman
They come from Europe, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Bullock,Bibb,Macon,Barbour, Pike Counties in Alabama
Houston County, Georgia.
They come from Europe, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Bullock,Bibb,Macon,Barbour, Pike Counties in Alabama
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Last week, family and friends gathered in the small town of Chattahoochee Hills, south of Atlanta, to celebrate a life well-lived. Our late grandson, Zack Wansley, was honored at the dedication of "Zack's Glade," a pristine and picturesque piece of Cochran Mill Park near where he died while training for the Atlanta Marathon in 2008.
Dear Dr. Morehead:
I have some good news and some bad news.
Ring! Ring! Ring!
I called Junior E. Lee, general manager of the Yarbrough Worldwide Media and Pest Control Company located in Greater Garfield, Ga., to see what kind of reactions he was getting from the public to the recent shutdown of the federal government.
Bummer. I just learned that I did not win the Nobel Peace Prize again this year. This is getting old. I was so confident this time that I had my tuxedo pressed and new laces put in my Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star high-top sneakers.
After a friend told me she had waited 3« hours recently to get her Georgia driver's license renewed and then had to deal with a clerk that could have passed for a robot - and an unhelpful one, at that - I thought this to be a typical example of a bunch of government bureaucrats who don't care because they don't have to. Where else are we going to go to get our driver's licenses renewed? Burger King?
Despite the rants of publicity-seeking bigots, the blather of Twitter twits and a national news media more interested in scooping the competition than in accurate reporting, the fact is that our American system of justice presumes one is innocent until proven guilty.
It looks like our legislators are about to lose one of their most cherished perks: free football tickets. Bless their hearts.
Dear Syrian rebels: I thought I'd take a minute to correspond with you as you resume your efforts to overthrow Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. You are no doubt disappointed that the United States government chose not to come to your aid as promised. There is a good reason and that is my purpose in writing you. Although I am not an official of the United States government, I am part of a group known as We the Unwashed. Put the blame squarely on us.
It is flattering to have readers tell me I should run for public office. There are also an equal number of adoring fans that say I should stick my head in a bucket of tar. But that is a topic for another day.
Rats! As if creating this profound and pithy prose each week wasn't hard enough, now I have discovered a legislator with a sense of humor. The apocalypse is upon us.
Please indulge me a moment of introspection and feel free to think along with me. Chances are what I am going to say may apply to you as well.
If public education in Georgia doesn't have enough problems, there is now a high-profile ruckus between Gov. Nathan Deal and State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge. It has gotten so peevish that there is talk that the school superintendent may challenge Deal in the Republican gubernatorial primary next spring.
You may have read that the U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear a case about whether or not prayer can be uttered in town councils across America. Last year, a federal appeals court ruled that such a nefarious deed violated the First Amendment's ban on an "establishment of religion."
My fellow Georgians: In order to keep my national certification as a modest and much-beloved columnist, it is required that I submit to you at the first of every year my State of the Column message. (Yay! Clap! Clap! Clap!)
Allen Peake is a man on a mission. The five-term Republican state representative from Macon is the driving force behind proposed legislation to legalize medical marijuana in Georgia.
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Here is garrett and my brothers yesterday. the one his age is dustin the older one is braeden
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Yes we are still looking for a right person.
Feel free to send your details!
I can recommend this amazing talk with Jason Cohen (the founder of WP Engine). Lots of good tips on building WP-centered business.
revaxarts said
Do you mean this?
Thank you!
I tired to include a href="#name" and it didn't work, but with full URL it works perfectly. Thanks again for showing this.
Dear Envato,
can you please consider to add support for the anchor links (attribute name="") on item description pages?
We want to send the users to the chagelog and some other theme description sections without sending them out of the description page to not loose the sale.
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Hey guys. I'll be completely upfront with you, no one likes it when we have to soft disable a file. It certainly doesn't benefit you, the buyer, or even us. And we're very aware of the impact it has when an item needs to be taken down for repairs. The Review Team will always approach each occasion with common sense to that we can avoid or minimize the pain as much as we can.
It simply not true. Maybe YOU act like this when you do soft-disables, but for us it's clear that a person who disabled our theme twice didn't think that the item is in the top list for this week and the problem is ridiculously minor to "punish" my team like that. We developed the theme for 8 months and can loose all the traction in a week because of it. As a person who pay salaries to my support team and developer, I can't rely on "common sense" here because it tell me to find a better place to sell my product.
What many authors in this thread wants is not to rely on the reviewer's "personal sense" or their judgement, but have a common rule like: If the issues with the item isn't a security problem then you obliged to send author a notice to fix it in 72 hours and only then disable the theme.
We had 2 soft-disables recently too for the same reason as you described, some of the pages wasn't looking good on mobile. I can see that the same guy from the review team disabled our theme, the same guy who didn't want to approve our theme initially. We lost minimum $1500 due to these disables but it's more about confidence. When you have a team and need to pay them a salary, you can't tolerate attitude like this from a one person in the review team. Now we reached an Elite status just in three months, but we are thinking not about new theme release, but on how to get out of here (TF) asap. We do not want to build a long lasting partnership with a company who allow that.
I can recommend this video from Jason Cohen (from WP Engine). Very good case study!
I have one minor request: can you please add an anchor like <a name="faq"> </a> before the Frequently Asked Questions heading?
We do use FAQ section a lot and now the contact form takes all the screen height, so it will be hard to explain to the buyers how to find FAQ section: Go to our support tab and scroll down until you see FAQ section. If you add the FAQ anchor we will be able to provide a direct link to the FAQ section.
It's one of the best updates you did! THANK YOU!
We use the desk.com for the client support. The new contact form on the support tab will make it much easier for our buyers to find were they can ask a complex/private question instead of using the public comments.
Thanks again!
Just found that contact form on support tab will not activate until you specify Email address in Settings > Item Support Settings.


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This event is not (and we mean, not) to be missed. Our author, Bill T. Jones, will be discussing his forthcoming book, Story/Time: The Life of an Idea on Thursday, October 16th at 7:30 pm at the Free[...]
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