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- throw in the towel
- also throw in the sponge phrasal to abandon a struggle or contest ; acknowledge defeat ; give up
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
throw\ in\ the\ towel — • throw in the sponge • throw up the sponge • throw in the towel v. phr. informal To admit defeat; accept loss. After taking a beating for five rounds, the fighter s seconds threw in the sponge. When Harold saw his arguments were not being… … Словарь американских идиом
throw in the towel — ► throw in the towel (or sponge) 1) (in boxing) throw a towel (or sponge) into the ring as a token of defeat. 2) admit defeat. Main Entry: ↑throw … English terms dictionary
throw in the towel — If you throw in the towel, you admit that you are defeated or cannot do something … The small dictionary of idiomes
throw in the towel — verb give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat (Freq. 1) In the second round, the challenger gave up • Syn: ↑drop out, ↑give up, ↑fall by the wayside, ↑drop by the wayside, ↑throw in, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
throw in the towel — If you throw in the towel, you admit that you are defeated or cannot do something. (Dorking School Dictionary) *** If you throw in the towel, you admit that you cannot succeed. After unsuccessfully competing in several… … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
throw in the towel — Sponge Sponge (sp[u^]nj), n. [OF. esponge, F. [ e]ponge, L. spongia, Gr. spoggia , spo ggos. Cf. {Fungus}, {Spunk}.] [Formerly written also {spunge}.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of numerous species of Spongi[ae], or Porifera. See Illust. and Note… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
throw in the towel — AND throw in the sponge; toss in the sponge tv. to quit; to give up. (From boxing where a towel or sponge thrown into the ring indicates that a boxer has given up.) □ I can tell when it's time to throw in the towel, and this is that time. □ The… … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
throw in the towel — to admit defeat or failure. The union was forced to throw in the towel and settle their bitter dispute with the company. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of throwing a towel into the ring in boxing (= signaling that a fighter can no longer … New idioms dictionary
throw in the towel — to concede defeat Boxing imagery, from what the second does when his fighter is unable to continue: I ve got to go to Rummidge to see my lawyer tomorrow. I could instruct him to throw in the towel. (Lodge, 1995) … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
throw in the towel — quit fighting, give up Don t throw in the towel. One more year and you ll graduate … English idioms
Throw in the towel — If you throw in the towel, you admit that you are defeated or cannot do something … Dictionary of English idioms


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After last week failed to clear a significant number of users that have come to demand money back, Pokemon Go developers have released a new update. Pokemon Go, like any other mobile game, is far from perfect. Precisely for this reason, it needs frequent updates offered players finishing experience. In addition, users get bored and need new content, and this subject is also on the list of priorities of Niantic.
Not the other, but nothing manage to generate $ 200 million profit in one month, if then lose most of the fans. It seems that will not be the case of Pokemon Go. Worse than internet users dependency of Pokemon Go is the large number of accidents in which they become involved in while playing. The newest update for Pokemon Go hoped to reduce the number disastrous circumstances through some very useful features. Basically, we talk and some new features, but the most important is a new notification system which is likely to prevent future disasters.
It was added a dialog that the coach would not have to play when traveling over a certain speed. In addition, coaches should confirm that do not lead to continue to play.
The same update released in the last days improves the accuracy of throws quite difficult, fixex some bugs and for the first time, allows you to change your name in the game, provided you do once. The developer also announced that it is testing a feature that allows players to make life easier. It is a pokemon locator through a menu suggestively titled Nearby Pokemon but you can use pokemon go pokecoins hack.
Currently, only a few Pokemon Go users have access to this additional function. Players will now be able to find information about attack and defense capabilities of a pokemon to determine which of their biggest potential fight. Present at the conference in San Diego Comic – Cos, the three characters have intrigued fans by how they were conceived, saying that some of them are thinking whether to move to another team, all because of physical appearance. Blanche has created curiosity for most players because it is uncertain whether the character is a woman or a man. Fortunately, however, fans have not given too much importance to this aspect.
Places like The Holocausts Memorial Museum or The 9/11 Memorial asked Pokemon Go plaers as much as possible to avoid catching pokemon inside those buildings or locations. Not only military bases and police stations have asked the same thing, even police warning players not to use the app while driving. However, some people seem to take things seriously. It seems that those in Niantic, Nintendo and Pokemon company are sued by a disgruntled couple from Detroit, on the grounds that they violate the property, which creates a great sense of insecurity. The two young men seek to change the way it works GPS map.
Specifically, all locations to be excluded, which is a private properly and not have the owner's permission. If you see a pokemon in a place that could not be sure to capture, as a building or private property where you can not catch that pokemon, does not. Always there will be another opportunity to capture the pokemon.

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And lost them........? as in...... you really have had your heart totally broken ..........I'm feeling a bit mellow tonight............
Have you ever really Loved someone
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and I thought nothing could be worse, until it happened to one of my boys. It was far more painful, knowing exactly how he felt and not being able to do a thing about it.
I, too, am feeling mellow. I thought I was having an unhappy day, but mellow sounds much better.
Try to be a sparkly unicorn, not a miserable cow.
She took me looking at engagement rings checking that I liked the same styles she did. Almost bought one and was on the verge of asking her to marry me when she ended it.
I can understand why she did it, but it doesn't make it less painful.
Well I'm still Hurting
27 years later......... and not a hint of where or how she is............. not on FB nor Twatter....... Nowt, nothing, don't think I could rest easy without knowing that she was OK...... ...on the Upside, I have the most amazing Partner and the loveliest kids ........ever... and a sense of humour......................
I'm married
to my one true love ....but 'ave no sense of humour
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit
Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad
We ave Noticed.......
............ Is your wife called Claire.................?
I still regret having
to sell my CB400T in college 25 years ago.
pigles....... I'm being
Twas black
with orange stripes (except mine lacked the crash bars this one has).
Must have been Heart
A bit raw for me....
at the moment Snev as I've mentioned before. Just in the process of negotiating a financial settlement with my missus. Got a figure agreed the other day and now she has texted me saying she wants more. The saving grace for me is I have all the family and her parents on my side and now her mother has been telling me how unfaithful she was to her last husband so it makes me feel a bit better about losing her. Still hurts a lot though. Looking to pastures anew now though, comes a time when you have to start looking forward and not back. Life goes on, make the most of it. I'm still keeping my house, car and bike so I should be grateful for that!
Yes i have Snev
i know where she is, whats she's doing and thats fine!
i left her though, and i was right too!
not spoken to her for 10 years almost now, and after the look i got the last time i saw her i'm unlikely to ever talk to her again! (i did leave her at the altar though so guess i can't expect much)
she's a part of who i was and that made who i am now and i'll thank her for that, but have moved on and very happy now.
no regrets mate! sometimes things aren't meant to be!
i loved my 916 more , and she ^^^^^^ was pretty much responsible for me losing that bike! grrrrrrrrrrrr
truth comes out ^^^^^^^^
argument, rode off in a strop, binned it
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit
Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad
"Have you ever really loved someone and lost them"
No.. They have all been stepping stones to where i need to be..
Im even getting on with my ex husband these days.Thats only taken 20 years.. It wont last.
"If i need the Moon, ill bring it down myself"...
nah , first wife sold it without my knowledge after the affair came to light!
well not according to SWMBO. I have never really loved anyone.
But she doesn't know how much I lusted after Linda Lucardi - you could keep your Sam Fox it was only ever Linda for me
The voices in my head may not be real
But they do have some good ideas
And not only did she fool me about her feelings, but took my lad in as well which was even more cruel. We couldn't drive past where she'd moved for over 2 years without my lad crying (he's disabled not a wimp before anyone comments).
Like a lot of women she went for money.
Stayed on my own over 10 years now, and 'never' trust another one despite being asked out by a few.
Sorry to hear that norris
........Ever thought about going for a drink with Phil, reckon you'd get on
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit
Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad
sound a lot like me. Although I am trying at the moment. I've had one stop talking to me out of the blue and another who seems to have gone quiet as soon as I mentioned I'm mildly disabled. This was after she expressed significant interest.
Women are great.
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San Francisco, California
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Event Details
Remember Hacker Night? Well, SAP is bringing it back under a new format called CodeJam. This new concept offers an opportunity for you as a developer to not only get your hands on SAP's latest technologies but also to put yourself to the test and to code, hack and create with your peers.
SAP CodeJam Stuttgart will focus on Mobile technologies. As a participant, you'll get access to the SAP Mobile platform including tools, sandboxes, experts, and more! In the days prior to the event, you'll receive an email with a checklist and a couple of links that will help you get prepared. Additional information can be found here.
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My dream is to show the world the importance of finding the commonalities in each other.
I like to write rap songs, some meaningful, some are just to play around, I have not gotten any complaints yet.
Anything you are curious about, just ask!
Finding a silver lining in a dark situation
retaining useless information
Corny jokes
relating to others
showing people all sides to a story and not just making theirs the most important.
being positive
making someone feel better about a bad/sad/regretted situation
looking at things from a few perspectives
deep thinking
being a good friend
talking about nerdy stuff
kissing ;)
I usually get Jokim Noah, Obama back in high school, Wiz, and in Greece, Snoop Dogg
people's impressions of me depend on where/how i meet them
Movies - the Matrix, Toy Story, the Union, Why We Fight, Fight club, Star wars, Finding Nemo, The Jungle Book and any father-and-son movies such as The Pursuit of Happiness.
Shows - Seinfeld, Weeds, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Heroes, Adventure Time, there are many more, but I highly dislike TV.
Music - THE BEATLES, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, J. Cole, Kanye (old Kanye), Lupe Fiasco, Twista, Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa, Pink Floyd, Led Zeplin, A$AP Rocky, The Fugees, Nas, Jay-Z, Eminem, Dre, Wu-Tang, LOGIC etc. (whatever sounds good, but mostly rap)
I also rap myself, but I dont see the point in listening to myself, unless I am actually making it.
Last but not least, I'm somewhat of a gamer. Super Smash Bros. (brawl or melee), and league of legends in a fraction of my downtime :)
a good documentary
Something with a screen (millennial problems)
(Occasional) solitude
I figured 7 was a better number. I can count. lol
You could call me a bad guy with a good heart. lol
or just chill watch a movie or something
Oh. and that my roommate in college walked in on me masturbating. he told his mom too. lmao! go christian schools


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There's plenty of mystery surrounding Area 51, but all some people care about is what Pokémon are hiding out there. Naturally, some curious players went in search of answers.
The folks at Frag Hero took a trip to Area 51 and discovered that none of the gyms in the area had been claimed. Naturally, those behind the site took it upon themselves to claim some gyms. They mention, however, that they were extremely careful and didn't break any rules.
They add, "Area 51 definitely has a lot to offer for Pokémon Go players, but it would be stupid to venture out there without doing some extensive research prior to making a trip."
Meanwhile, YouTube channel SuperMega also ventured out there and found themselves embroiled in a cat and mouse game with security.


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Under a brilliant full moon, the Israeli Army commander took a final drag on his cigarette, then wriggled into a cramped armored personnel carrier and ordered his men on a nighttime charge into one of the Gaza Strip's most combustible neighborhoods.
The commander, a lieutenant colonel named Ron who insisted that his last name be withheld, predicted that shooting would erupt, and it did. In several sharp exchanges of fire, five Palestinians were killed, including two militants and three youths aged 12, 14 and 18, according to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. More than a dozen Palestinians were wounded as part of an operation Israel said was aimed at preventing Palestinian rocket fire.
The colonel, a slim, energetic man with a day's worth of stubble, permitted a reporter to join him in his armored vehicle for an inside look at the fighting that persists despite a new Middle East peace plan.
As commander of a special forces battalion who also received training at Fort Benning, Ga., the colonel leads some of the army's more delicate missions in Gaza. Preparing for this one, he discussed the often-conflicting demands of tracking down militants and avoiding civilian casualties.
''It's important just to hit the terrorists, not the civilians,'' he said before the raid. ''Most of the time we succeed. But the terrorists sometimes use the women and children as human shields, and it makes our job very difficult.''Continue reading the main story
The raid, among the most sustained of the conflict into Gaza, came as the Bush administration was pushing a new peace plan here, and as the first Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, said he was trying to marshal Palestinian security in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians accuse Israel of trying to undermine the plan with assassinations of militant leaders and almost daily raids into Palestinian towns.
But Israeli officials say that with Mr. Abbas still failing to act to stop the violence, they have no choice but to carry out raids like this one. The diplomatic signals may be mixed, but for Ron, the mission had a straightforward message.
''We want the people to understand that if they let the terrorists operate from their neighborhoods, we will be there,'' he said.
Israel said it had selected Beit Hanun, in the northeast corner of Gaza, as a target because the militant Hamas movement used the lush orange groves there for cover when launching homemade rockets at the Israeli town of Sederot, just outside Gaza's boundary fence.
The Israeli commander directed more than two dozen tanks, armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and Humvees as they traversed rutted, winding roads and entered Beit Hanun in single file, with their lights out, navigating by moonlight and night-vision goggles.
The commander, who was relaxed and chatty before the operation began, became intensely focused once it started. With a 360-degree view through bulletproof-glass panels, he was constantly checking the positions of other vehicles. The radio between him and his offices rarely went silent, and he often flipped on a small flashlight to check a map book with aerial photos of Beit Hanun on a detailed grid.
After an hour of driving on deserted roads, the forces staked out positions at 3 a.m. in the dirt streets, many just wide enough to accommodate tanks. Spreading out over several blocks, they encircled two houses they said belonged to Hamas members accused of involvement in the rocket fire, and prepared to blow them up.
Speaking in Arabic, a soldier on a megaphone told residents to get out of the two houses, as well as those nearby. But Beit Hanun, like many Palestinian communities, is awash in weapons, and the call was greeted almost immediately with bursts of gunfire from elsewhere in the neighborhood, prompting shooting exchanges that lasted 15 minutes. Palestinians also hurled grenades and set off two roadside bombs, the Israelis said.
Despite the gunfights, Palestinian families emerged on the streets as ordered, with parents toting small children in their arms. The Israelis shined spotlights on them to make sure that they were unarmed, startling some children.
As the shooting died down, small bands of soldiers slipped into the two homes and the neighboring ones to confirm that they had been evacuated and to plant explosives.
A pair of blasts only minutes apart brought the two-story structures crashing down amid bright orange flashes, a shower of sparks and a gust of wind through the gun portals of the armored vehicle, bringing dust as fine as talcum powder.
A short distance away, the scenario was repeated, with another bout of shooting preceding the demolitions of two more houses the soldiers said belonged to Hamas men.
The Israeli practice of tearing down the homes of militants has been criticized by Palestinians, who call it collective punishment. The Israelis see it as deterrence.
Israeli troops made no arrests, but remained in the area, and periodic clashes continued throughout the day. Young men set up burning tire barricades in the streets and threw stones at the Israeli armor; unseen gunmen occasionally opened fire.
''Until this moment, we feel like we are in jail,'' Sufian Hamad, a Beit Hanun resident, said tonight. ''We are surrounded by tanks.''
He told his seven children to resist the temptation to peek out the window, saying the 12-year-old boy who died was shot while looking at the troops.
Palestinians said that the army had blocked ambulances for several hours, and that the boy, Muhammad Zaneen, who was hit in the head, had had to be carried from the combat zone. Israel denied the charge.
The Israeli colonel was remorseful about the youths who were killed. ''It's a terrible feeling,'' he said. ''It's the last thing I want to happen. I can only hope that we have made it difficult for the Palestinians to fire rockets from this area.''
These up-close confrontations, which are commonplace, are inherently jittery. When troops turn a dark corner, as they did today, they may be greeted by a family of 10 in pajamas, or a barrage of gunfire from militants laying an ambush.
At dawn, the army's hulking D-9 bulldozers systematically flattened the large orange groves that the military says Hamas has been using as a launching pad.
Five bulldozers took down hundreds of mature orange trees like huge lawn mowers trimming an overgrown yard. The bulldozers were so powerful, oranges were flung from their branches as the trees were pressed to the ground.
''With these trees gone, we now have a clear line of sight from our positions, and the terrorists can't hide,'' the colonel said.
But Marwan al-Shawa, whose family owns the land, was furious at the destruction. ''The Israelis are just doing this for revenge,'' he said.
Over the last year, Israeli forces have maintained an almost permanent presence in and around Palestinian cities in the West Bank. But quick in-and-out raids have been the norm in Gaza, where the army is wary of getting bogged down in the congested towns.
Nevertheless, Maj. Gen. Doron Almog said the troops would remain in Beit Hanun, because of the recent increase in rocket and mortar fire. Israel says it will not tolerate the attacks, which have caused injuries but no deaths so far.Continue reading the main story


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Courses of Study
Arts Education, Grade 6 - 12, Instrumental Music: Level I, 2006
1.) Demonstrate the components necessary for characteristic tone production in the middle register at a
mezzo forte
Examples: demonstrating correct posture and playing position, adjusting tone quality while playing, forming correct
, beginning tone with correct attack, supporting tone with proper breath support, sustaining tone without wavers in pitch or intensity, releasing tone on pitch
Adjusting pitch to a tuning standard
Example: using an electronic tuner to adjust the length of the instrument
2.) Sight-read unison literature in the appropriate clef.
Playing notes from the printed page within the appropriate clef
Performing music containing the dynamic markings of
crescendo, decrescendo, p, mp, mf,
Performing music that combines the basic articulations of tonguing, slurring, accent,
, and
for winds and
détaché, pizzicato
, and slurring for strings
Performing as a member of a large group and small ensemble with attention to balance and intonation
3.) Perform major scales and their related
, including concert B
, and A
and chromatic scale from concert B
to B
for wind and percussion instruments; scales C, G, and D chromatic scale from concert C to C for strings; and rudiments consisting of five- and nine-stroke rolls, flam, single paradiddle, and
for percussion.
4.) Demonstrate correct fingerings for all notes in the practical range of personal instruments.
5.) Compose an eight-measure melody based on a diatonic scale and written in the practical playing range of an instrument.
Transposing a melody into a different key
6.) Demonstrate conducting patterns of four, three, and two beats per measure; entrance cues; and cutoffs.
7.) Identify characteristics of various forms of musical compositions.
Examples: march typically fast and detached, chorale typically slow and connected
8.) Critique live or videotaped performances with respect to tone quality.
9.) Name written pitches on the instrument when given concert pitch.
Example: concert B
corresponding to written C on a clarinet
10.) Identify the size of the interval between two given notes.
Example: C to E being a 3
Identifying size and quality of intervals between two given notes
Example: C to E being a major 3
11.) Demonstrate appropriate care of personal instruments.
Examples: assembling a clarinet, removing moisture from a flute, applying rosin to a violin bow
12.) Define the elements of music, including melody, rhythm, form, timbre, harmony, and texture.
13.) Identify various composers and stylistic periods of music.
- Johann Sebastian Bach--Baroque period,
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July 6, 2010 by Post Team
Micoach:We saw the adidas miCoach system when it launched at CES earlier this year, and in its previous incarnation as part of Samsung miCoach. Adidas aside some space in this year's expo Virgin London Marathon for it, so we thought we'd take a closer look, while a chase for review.
The system is compared with the Nike +, Polar and Suunto systems (Garmin and Timex strangely not check-in) in its marketing information, noting that provides real-time sound training, which is real unique feature here.
The most important other, monitoring heart rate, development of training plan, the post-traininganlysis and a "functioning of the community" are offered in other places, and heart rate monitors that ask you to accelerate or slow to hit a training heart rate have been present for many years – we dumped some links to reviews of other devices in the bottom of this story.
The adidas miCoach is a system with different components and in essence you need to monitor a heart rate chest strap, the miCoach stride sensor and Pacer, which is sold in a kit for £ 120.
The Pacer miCoach is the brain of the computer. This is the part that speaks to all other components, taking your stride rate from the foot sensor and heart rate belt. Records and processes the data and feeds the appropriate information based on your training program, through the headphones (s).
You get the option to go through its own MP3 player as well, which is where you can be a bit more complicated because you must connect your MP3 player with the miCoach Pacer through an additional cable. His music is still controlled by the MP3 player as usual. You at least get the option to use any headset with a 3.5mm jack you like, with the recent connection between adidas and Sennheiser has been an obvious choice, but also make Philips headphones specifically for the sport.
The Pacer miCoach connects to your PC and liaison with the miCoach website via the miCoach Manager (PC-free and download Mac). The website is free to register, so you can go now, go through the plans and make a decision on whether to meet your needs before you part with their money in cash. You could even just use the website of a training plan and nothing more, with a range of different types of programs, learning to run, race specific training fund, including the marathon.
Then sync your Pacer with your training program and you are, and what we can see, the programs have been well designed, offering lots of different principles and take account of good training.
Once running, the Pacer will discuss your progress, telling you to speed up or slow down suddenly one of the four areas of training. This means your training is at the right intensity, which is the most efficient method to achieve the best results, especially when training for a long distance race like the London Marathon.
The guys in the booth at the Virgin London Marathon Expo told us that the system is being launched across Europe now, and is available for those in the United Kingdom since the adidas website. We will bring you the complete low when they give us for review.
And if this were not enough, here is a video that explains it all again.
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ROTC student banned from starting conservative club, Jesuit university refuses to say why
If Jesuit Creighton University is "dedicated to the pursuit of truth in all its forms," as its mission statement says, it is poorly conveying those values with respect to an ROTC student who has tried to start a conservative club this academic year.
For the second time in as many semesters, the Student Life and Involvement Center (SLIC) at the Jesuit institution rejected Justin Carrizales' application to start a chapter of Turning Point USA, a nonpartisan student organization dedicated to free markets, limited government and personal responsibility.
The school has refused to explain why except to say that the proposed club is too similar to other unstated clubs at Creighton, and it has given conflicting answers on when exactly the application was rejected.
But Carrizales, who has attended leadership conference with the national Turning Point USA organization, suspects the denial was retaliation for him publicly identifying a professor who suggested Donald Trump was the "Anti-Christ" on an exam.
Fishy rejection
The ROTC student had a short interview with two students and the SLIC director, Katie Kelsey, after turning in his application, Carrizales told The College Fix.
"One of the students was there in regards to fundraising and the financial aspect, and the other was there on behalf of student life," he said. Carrizales "fully" answered questions for about 15-30 minutes on fundraising, which was "stated in the Constitution" he brought, as well as membership and "how it would be different from other clubs like College Republicans.
"I conveyed all the activities we have done and what we would be hoping to do this school year and moving forward as a club," he said. "They had no further questions, and I left."
Yet the denial letter from Kelsey questioned the sustainability of the proposed club and said Carrizales had not provided enough information about it. Both Carrizales and The Fix have asked Kelsey and university media relations multiple times for more information on which organizations a Turning Point chapter would allegedly duplicate. (The "duplicate" answer has been used to reject at least one other Turning Point club.)
Under review in early December or mid-January?
Conflicting accounts of the timeline of events also make Carrizales suspicious.
He gave a screenshot of the anti-Trump exam question to Hypeline, a Turning Point website, which did not reveal his identity. But Carrizales said he was quickly revealed as the source because other students knew of his Turning Point affiliation, and he ended up writing a Facebook post about it and the professor's repeated criticism of Trump in class:
Regarding the sharing of Dr. Acosta's extra-credit test question, I was asked how this made me feel, and this would be my full response to that and anyone with questions:
As someone who comes from Chicago, I have seen this sort of institutional bias before. Now, as someone who attends college classes at a Catholic University, with highly educated professors, I am easily once again extremely disappointed in our educational system. There is no way to disregard that people have opinions and bias one way or another, and that is more than justified. But when people, especially teachers, blatantly shove their opinions down students' throats in a fashion as if it were factual, that's more than a problem. But overall, beyond teachers and professors openly vocalizing their opinions, this opinion was put into a graded college required course's final as credit. I can openly say I DO NOT support Donald Trump's candidacy, but what if I actually did support Trump? Would I have taken the 5 point deduction just to answer one of the other degrading comments, while simultaneously compromising my own personal beliefs?
I have also heard of some backlash as me being a student who argued with Dr. Acosta in class only to get "slammed" and that this is me getting back at him. The truth of the matter is that allegedly happened in Acosta's 12:30 class. I was in His class at 2:00.
Apart from that, Acosta did have multiple classes in which he discussed irrelevant political topics to his course, in a very inappropriate manner. Each time Acosta made these political comments I was in military uniform, in which case I cannot comment on anything political. I myself restrained from making any political comments in class or towards Acosta himself. You are free to ask anyone else in that class about me, and whoever made this rumor is gravely mistaken.
To anyone who thinks this was a "joke" or some type of humor that is totally incorrect. He has spoken very strongly against Donald Trump in class before and I could not see how this in anyway is a joke. Along with that, if it were, it would be extremely unprofessional and distasteful to have a joke or humor about something like that in a graded final for credit.
In correspondence with Dr. Acosta before he confronted me about the news article he stated: "P.S. On the bright side, you understand very well the case of Donald Trump smile emoticon." Only after he learned about the articles coming out about his test question did he state to the students of his class that the extra credit question was not meant to be taken seriously and that "Everyone will get the 5 extra-credit points whether you answered it or not."
Furthermore, anyone who claims that I did this because I disagree with his political opinions extremely incorrect. I did not bring this to light as a means of suppressing liberal ideology. I spoke out against Acosta's actions as a means of speaking out against political indoctrination within higher education. If any of you wish to criticize me for that that is fine, but recognize that I did this for you as well. I did this so anyone with any opinion (regardless of whether or not I agree) does not have to be coerced into compromising their beliefs. If some people cannot understand that then they are part of the problem.
My intention was not to have people attack Dr. Acosta in any way when I shared the information of that question. In no way shape or form did I want to cause him any harm, I can only apologize for the way others have responded to the information. I have always appreciated and respected Dr. Acosta as a person and an English Professor when teaching the information regarding the course.
Creighton spokeswoman Cindy Workman told The Fix in an email that Carrizales' application was denied two weeks before the Hypeline story, which was published Dec. 15.
That would mean the university had waited six weeks to tell Carrizales its decision. Workman explained the discrepancy as follows: "The recommendation for denial was given to the vice provost for student life in early December. The vice provost's office returned the recommendation in January as the University was closed for the holiday and classes did not resume until mid-January."
Carrizales told The Fix that at his interview, he was told the applications would not be reviewed until Christmas break. When Carrizales called a SLIC employee Jan. 17, the day before receiving the denial letter, he was told the application was still under review.
That means university employees have given three periods during which Carrizales' application was under review: the first week of December, over Christmas break and Jan. 17.
Multiple emails to the public relations office of the university have not been returned.


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ISI is planning to be in London for a series of sessions in September to provide pharmaceutical companies with the tools and techniques for achieving global regulatory planning
In its continuing mission to alleviate the burden of international regulatory information management for global pharma organisations, ISI has stepped up its programme to create a culture of information management 'discipline' in the industry.
The current year is proving a particularly busy time for regulatory information management initiatives as industry copes with new compliance mandates, explores various cost-cutting models and strategies to maximise commercial opportunities for existing products and supports a robust pipeline of new therapies. In addition, as mergers and acquisitions continue at a brisk pace, companies are faced with the additional complexities of integrating acquired companies' products and tracking those therapies through their lifecycle.
For global pharma organisations, keeping track of which products are registered where, and what the latest requirements are in any given market (for example, with regards to eCTD submissions), is a full-time job and one that is hard to get right without a systematic approach to information management.
With this in mind, and hot on the heels of a busy webinar programme which continues into the autumn, ISI has announced a jointly hosted event with independent software industry analyst, Ovum, to be held in London on September 24th.
The event is part of the company's 'Stay in the Know' campaign, which launched this year and includes a whole host of information-driven initiatives to improve pharma companies' regulatory management activities. In addition to the Ovum forum, ISI has been running periodic webinars to keep customers fully informed, and will soon announce a new dedicated web site, drawing together a whole host of content and useful resources to make it easier for pharma companies to get up to speed with the global regulatory scene and ways they can shore up their own internal tracking capabilities.
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If you have seen Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, then you will undoubtably remember that lengthy scene that opens the film — a memorable one to say the least. Terrific performances, great tension/suspense that builds, inspired dialogue and impeccable pacing. To recap, it is 1941, and SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz, in his Oscar-winning performance) arrives at a dairy farm in France to interrogate Perrier LaPadite (Denis Menochet) to see if he is hiding a Jewish family. Landa uses his guile to persuade him to confess to hiding the family beneath his floor and then orders his soldiers to shoot the floorboards where they are hiding. The entire family is killed, except for Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent), who runs off in the distance as Landa calmly watches from afar. A truly magnificent opening.
Which brings me to this weekend's video, "Grammar Nazis," a wonderfully creative spoof of this remarkable scene by College Humor Originals. Now we all know that Nazis surely have little tolernance to begin with, but here, Col. Landa's pet peeve is — poor grammar! It's funny, funny stuff. The short 3½ minute video is directed by Sam Reich, Ricky Van Veen, & Josh Ruben and is a delightful homage that had me laughing when I first saw it. Click on the link below to watch it!


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This invention relates generally to the recording of color and black and white images using digital image processing techniques. More particularly, the invention is directed to a method and system for improving the quality of such images using state-of-the-art ink jet printers and gray scale or halftoning techniques.
For several years now, it has been known to convert both color and black and white images scanned using a variety of image sensors to an output ink recording of various types of printers, such as ink jet printers. One example of such an image conversion system is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,672,432 assigned to Canon of Japan, and this system is capable of converting red, blue and green colors of a picture taken by a scanner into cyan, yellow and magenta color outputs from an ink jet printer. The subject matter of this U.S. patent is incorporated herein by reference.
More recently, significant developments have been made in the art of thermal ink jet color printing. An example of one such development was the introduction by the present assignee, Hewlett-Packard Company, in 1987 of its multicolor thermal ink jet printer sold under the trademark "PaintJet". This printer is described in detail in the Hewlett-Packard Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4 published in August 1988 and incorporated herein by reference. Other newly available color ink jet printers have been recently described in numerous trade journals, and an example of such publication is an article in Personal Computing magazine by W. L. Rosch entitled "New Printers Banish Black and White", May 31, 1988, at page 168 et seq.
While these color ink jet printers have been generally well received and operate satisfactorily in most respects, some of the images recorded by these printers have exhibited a certain undesirable color contrast or "grainyness" which detracts from the quality of the recorded image. There are two ways of reducing this "grainyness" or undesirable color contrast, and one way involves using a higher dots per inch (dpi) resolution whereas the other way involves the use of gray scale techniques. The present invention falls into the latter category.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved method and system which is operative to reduce such undesirable color contrast and grainyness of images recorded by ink jet printers, thereby improving the quality of such recorded images.
Another object is to provide a new and improved method and system of the type described which achieves such improved image quality without any sacrifice in resolution and without using a higher resolution print density. The disadvantage of going to higher resolutions is that it results in slower print times, requires more nozzles and requires operating the nozzles at a higher print frequency.
Another object is to provide a new and improved method and system of the type described which is readily and economically adaptable for use with state-of-the-art thermal ink jet printers without requiring an increase in the dot printing density of these printers.
A further object of this invention is to provide a new and improved method and system of the type described which is able to accomplish the above objects while simultaneously and additionally minimizing the amount of paper cockleing produced during ink jet printing.
A feature of this invention is the provision of a unique error diffusion and pixel assignment gray scaling stage for a color image conversion-to-hardcopy output electronic system. This gray scaling stage includes, among other things, means for controlling the ejection of ink onto a print medium in a pixel address sequence controlled by the value of gray scale numbers to which said image information is assigned.
Another feature of this image conversion system is its ability to match an ink loaded drop to a selected print area for receiving the drop in a manner to enhance print quality from an ink jet printing operation. This system includes means for scanning an image to generate digital data representative thereof, means connected to the scanning means for converting the digital data to gray scale digital information, and means connected to the converting means for processing the digital information in such a manner as to prevent the volume of the ink loaded drop from exceeding a preselected maximum allowable ink drop volume, Vmax.
The above image conversion system also features means for generating cyan, yellow, magenta and black pixel information, means connected to receive the pixel information and for assigning the information a gray scale drop count number based upon a count of ink drops and the dye loading thereof, and means connected to the assigning means for decrementing the drop count number to a desired and selectable lower level number on the gray scale.
The above image conversion system also features means for printing sub-divided super pixels in response to scanning rows of black, cyan, magenta and colors of first a high dye loading, then a medium dye loading and finally a low dye loading. In this process, the ink printed in successively printed pixels is distributed over the printed media to assure maximum print quality and minimum color contrast.
The above objects and other features and advantages of this invention are accomplished by, among other things, providing a controlled ink drop count and corresponding selected dye loading for ejection into addressable pixels. These pixels are defined by a plurality of row and column locations in a chosen gray scale matrix. This drop count and corresponding dye loading are representative of digital gray scale information generated by scanning a chosen image, and this information is used to select the ink drop count and dye loadings used in an ink jet printer. Ink drop volumes of each drop count and dye loading are computed, and the sum of the measured ink drop volumes are compared with a predetermined maximum allowable ink drop volume (Vmax) to be received by a selected print medium. Minimum paper cockleing will occur if the chosen ink drop volume does not exceed Vmax for a given area of print media. An ink volume difference or error signal is generated in response to such comparison, and this error signal is in turn used to select the optimum drop count and dye loading for minimum color contrast for each level of gray scale printed.
It is necessary to control Vmax for different kinds of print media and for different inks printed thereon in order to minimize paper cockleing. This is a condition where the paper expands or contracts unevenly and becomes rough and uneven where too much ink is received in certain area thereon. However, within this limitation of Vmax, the present invention will operate to maximize the drop count number and thus maximize the number of drop counts within a given printed surface area, such as for example a 2�2 pixel. This feature in turn has the effect of minimizing color contrast in the printed image.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, we provide a novel method for minimizing color contrast in a printed image which includes generating cyan (C), yellow (Y), magenta (M) and black (K) pixel information and assigning this information a gray scale number based upon a count of ink drops and dye loading of the drops. Then, this assigned number is decremented to a selected lower digital number in a given level of gray scale or a lower digital number in a lower level of gray scale in response to a measure of the number of ink drops and their dye loading representative of scanned C, Y, M and K pixel information. The system and method according to the present invention further includes means for assigning each digit of the finally adjusted gray scale number to a selected pixel within a larger or super pixel. The particular pixel selection process is based upon the numerical value of the adjusted gray scale number.
FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the image conversion system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2A is a table of 16 levels of gray scale and is based upon the use of a two-by-two super pixel.
FIG. 2B is a table of 32 levels of gray scale and is also based upon the use of a two-by-two super pixel.
FIGS. 3A and 3B are respectively the upper and lower portions of a schematic flow chart depicting the data processing methodology and structure used for controlling the operation of the error diffusion and pixel assignment gray scaling stage in FIG. 1.
FIGS. 3C and 3D are enlargements of the schematic flow chart in FIG. 3B and are included to enlarge the legend of FIG. 3B and make this legend easier to read.
FIG. 4 is a matrix showing three rows and four columns of 2�2 super pixels to illustrate the assignment of ink drops to each pixel based upon the value of the digits in each assigned gray scale digital number.
Referring now to FIG. 1, a scanner 10 may be used to convert a color image into digital gray scale data for application to an additive red-green-blue (R-G-B) format conversion stage 12. The R-G-B output data from the format conversion stage 12 is applied as indicated to the subtractive color primaries cyan-yellow-magenta (C-Y-M) color conversion stage in a well known manner and including 100% undercolor removal to obtain black. A chromatic color (black) cannot be easily made by mixing Y-M-C ink colors, and such mixing will increase the amount of ink consumed. Therefore, the black created by YMC colors is more preferable replaced by pure black (K). This replacement and the generation of pure black is known in the art as undercolor correction or undercolor removal (UCR).
The use of 100% undercolor removal is for the purpose of minimizing ink consumption and to improve resolution. The equation for 100% UCR for colors C, M, Y and K is K=min (C, M, Y) where the new C=C-K, the new M=M-K and the new Y=Y-K.
The output of the C-Y-M color conversion stage 14 is a digital data stream which is applied to the error diffusion and pixel assignment stage 16, and the latter stage in turn drives a color printer 18, preferably a thermal ink jet color printer. The general functional arrangement of the image scanning and reproduction system of FIG. 1 is generally well known in the image processing art. The image processing operation and capability of such a system is described, for example, in the March 1987 issue of BYTE Magazine in an article by B. M. Dawson entitled "Introduction To Image Processing Algorithms" at page 169 et seq. Such image processing capability and corresponding system operation is also described in a publication by Gary Dispoto et al. entitled Designer's Guide to Raster Image Printer Algorithms, First Edition, December 1986, Copyrighted by and available from the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, Calif. Both of these latter references are incorporated herein by reference.
The processes of error diffusion and pixel assignment in a gray scaling image processing operation are also generally well known in this art. Error diffusion is a technique used to disperse to the neighboring pixels the error between a printable gray scale and the input image data gray scale. This error diffusion has been frequently carried out using a selected one of many well known algorithms such as those discussed in the above identified Dawson article. As an example, this error diffusion may be carried our using either one of two well known algorithms in this art, namely, Floyd and Steinberg's 4-point algorithms and Stucke's 12-point algorithms.
In 1976, Robert W. Floyd and Lewis Steinberg published a paper in the Proceedings of the Society of Information Display, Vol. 17/2 entitled "An Adaptive Algorithm For Spacial Gray Scale", and in this article there is described an algorithm which is entitled "Error Diffusion". As indicated above and described in detail in the Floyd and Steinberg paper, error diffusion is a technique used to disperse the difference between the actual gray scale of the read pixel values and the subsequently assigned row and column (i,j) gray scale of a look-up gray table into the pixels which surround the assigned gray scale pixels. This error diffusion is done in such a manner as to minimize smearing of the image reproduced. The above Floyd and Steinberg paper is incorporated herein by reference.
Other error diffusion techniques are identified in U.S. Pat. No. 4,680,645 issued to Dispoto et al., assigned to the present assignee and also incorporated herein by reference.
Referring now to FIG. 2A, there is shown a 16 level gray table based upon a two-by-two super pixel and also based upon a high-medium-low dye loading for each 3 digit gray scale number and weighted as indicated to be in the reflectance density ratio of 4:2:1. Thus, the left hand digit of each gray scale number in each row and column of the 16 level gray table in FIG. 2A represents a high (H) dye loading, the middle digit of each 3-digit gray scale number represents the medium (M) dye loading and the right hand digit of each number represents a low (L) dye loading for each drop of ink ejected onto a pixel. Each of these H, M and L dye loadings is selected to give a 4:2:1 reflectance ratio on the printed page as will be understood by those skilled in the art.
The numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 appearing in brackets in FIG. 2A represent the ink drop count, or the number of ink drops associated with a particular level of dye loading. This combination of drop count and dye loading will in turn yield a specific gray scale level which is assigned to the pixel values actually read by the scanner 10 in FIG. 1. This assigned gray scale value is the closest gray scale number in the gray table in FIG. 2 to the actually read pixel values.
The blank areas of the table shown in FIG. 2B to which no drop count numbers are assigned are all (0, 0, 0). Therefore, the 3 digit drop count gray scale numbers shown in FIG. 2B are the only numbers in the 16-level gray table having one or more positive digits of either a 1, 2, 3 or 4 value corresponding to available drop counts within the 16 gray scale levels.
There are actually 256 levels in a complete gray scale used in practicing this invention. This number 256 is a convenient even number in the digital signal processing art and has far more resolution in gray scale than is normally needed. The human eye can resolve only about 50 gray levels between maximum white and maximum black. Also, the number 256 is a typical level resolution number for the scanner 10. Therefore, each of the 16 levels in FIG. 2B represent one sixteenth of the total 256 level gray scale. Thus, in level one (1) of the table in FIG. 2B, the (0, 0, 1) notation indicates that the only available drop count and dye loading for achieving a level one of the gray table is a single drop or drop count having a low (L) or one weighted dye loading. Similarly, a level two of gray scale may be achieved by using either one drop of a medium (M) dye loading (0, 1, 0) or two drops of a low dye loading (0, 0, 2), as indicated in level two of the table, and so on down the table. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that many other gray levels may be used instead of the 16 levels indicated in FIG. 2B.
For example, a 32 level gray table is especially well suited for use in practicing the present invention and would be used in combination with a 8:3:1 reflectance ratio in an arrangement shown in FIG. 2B. It will be observed in FIG. 2B that level 15 of the table has no exact available gray scale number for achieving the exact level 15 or 15/16ths of the total 256 level gray scale. Level 15 can be achieved by using a level 14 in combination with an error diffusion. The selection of the above gray scale numbers in FIGS. 2A and 2B which define and control the available drop counts and dye loadings will become better understood in the following descriptions of FIGS. 3-4.
Referring now to FIGS. 3A and 3B, the data processing system shown in these two connected figures provides a detailed explanation of the operation of the error diffusion and pixel assignment stage 16 in FIG. 1. This data processing system is comprised of a number of functional blocks which include therein descriptive legend to aid in the reader's understanding of the invention. These functional blocks are actually individual stages of a computer, and as such are sometimes alternatively referred to as "stages" or "test stages" in the case of performing a yes-no test on a particular piece of data. The test stages in this system are indicated by the diamond shaped functional blocks, whereas the other operational stages which perform a specific functional operation on the incoming data are rectangular in shape. However, for the ease of describing this data processing system and its two feedback loops, each of the functional blocks or stages therein will be referred to hereinafter as "steps" in order to generically indicate the functional steps performed on the data being operated on in each of the electronic stages.
As indicated at step 20, each of the black, cyan, magenta and yellow pixel values are read by the scanner 10 in FIG. 1 and converted to C, Y, M and K digital data, each having a row and column, (i, j,) within the 256 level gray scale. As indicated at step 22, each of the black, cyan, magenta and yellow gray levels from step 20 are assigned their closest corresponding gray scale number within the gray table of FIG. 2B, and the difference between the actual and assigned gray levels are diffused by error diffusion at step 24 into the surrounding pixels as previously described.
At step 26, a total drop count is calculated for the black, cyan, magenta and yellow minimum available drop count numbers within the 16 level gray table of FIG. 2B, and this drop count minimum is compared at step 28 in FIG. 3B to a predetermined maximum allowable drop count, Vmax, as previously defined. If the total drop count minimum at step 28 is greater than Vmax, then the color plane of the highest drop count, Dmax1, of the group of drop counts for the colors C, Y, M and K is identified at step 30, reduced (decremented) in drop count at step 32 to its next lower value in the gray scale and the difference between the newly assigned gray scale number and the actually read gray scale number is used to produce a corresponding error diffusion at step 34. Thereafter, the new total drop count is updated at step 36 and then again compared to Vmax at step 38. If the total drop count at step 38 is now less than Vmax, then the correct corresponding digital data is generated on line 40 and is used to drive a color ink jet printer 18 in FIG. 1. If the total drop count at step 38 is still greater than Vmax, then a feedback signal generated in the feedback loop 42 is utilized to then again identify the color plane of the next existing highest C, Y, M, or K drop count at step 30 and the process in the loop 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 42 repeats itself.
If the total drop count at step 28 is now less than Vmax, then the step 44 is operative to generate a total drop count sum of all the maximum drop count numbers in the gray table of FIG. 2B for each of the K, C, M and Y assigned pixel values. This sum of the total K, C, M and Y drop count maximums is then compared at step 46 to Vmax. If this total drop count sum is less than Vmax, a signal on line 48 is generated and is used to drive a color printer and no further signal processing is necessary. If, however, the total maximum drop count sum at step 46 is now greater than Vmax, then the output signal on line 50 from step 46 is applied to step 52 and therein used to identify the color plane of the next highest individual drop count, Dmax2, of each of the previously summed K, C, M and Y drop count maximums.
If there is then existing a lower drop count gray scale number at the same gray level within the table of FIG. 2B as determined in step 54, then a signal on line 56 from step 54 is generated and is used to decrement the drop count in step 58 by going to the next lower drop count maximum number within the same level of the gray table in FIG. 2B. If, however, no lower drop count number exists for the same level of gray scale as determined in step 54, then a signal generated on line 60 from step 58 is applied to the step 62 where it is used to reduce the drop count number by decrementing the level of the gray table in step 62 to its next lowest gray level wherein a new drop count maximum number is selected. Then, an output signal on line 64 is applied to the step 66 where an error diffusion is performed to generate an error diffusion signal on line 68. The signal on line 68 is applied to the next step 70 where the total drop count maximum is updated at step 70 and then fed to an output comparator 76. Here in the comparator 70 the updated total drop count number if again compared to Vmax to insure that the newly updated drop count number does not now still exceed Vmax. If Vmax is not exceeded, a signal on line 74 is generated to drive the color printer. However, if the total drop count in step 70 still exceeds Vmax, then a feedback signal on line 76 is returned via line 50 to the input of step 52 to again identify the color plane of the then xisting next highest drop count for each of the group of K, C, M and Y maximum drop count gray scale numbers.
The following code in TABLE I is referred to in the image processing art as a "pseudo code" and is a statement of all of the various steps described above with reference to FIGS. 3A and 3B:
TABLE I__________________________________________________________________________for all rows (j)for all columns (i)read pixel values{black k(i,j)cyan c(i,j)magenta m(i,j)yellow y(i,j)}threshold the pixel values to their nearest gray level entry table valuessuch that:{k(i,j) = kg(i,j) + ke(i,j)c(i,j) = cg(i,j) + ce(i,j)m(i,j) = mg(i,j) + me(i,j)y(i,j) = yg(i,j) + ye(i,j)wherekg,cg,mg and yg are the available grey level table entry values ofblack, cyan, magenta and yellow repectivelyke,ce,me and ye are the error difference between actual pixelvalues and available grey level table values of black, cyan,magenta and yellow respectively, all these values must be positive.}drop count assignment base on maximum allowable ink (MAX){if((kg(i,j).count-- min + cg(i,j).count-- min+ mg(i,j).count-- min + yg(i,j).count-- min) >MAX)do{assign: kg-- count = kg(i,j).count-- min;cg-- count = cg(i,j).count-- min;mg-- count = mg(i,j).count-- min;yg-- count = yg(i,j).count.sub. -- min;identify the maximum of the set (kg-- count, cg-- count,mg-- count);decrement the max value to its next lower gray level table entry;update gray level and count assignment;do the correspondent error diffusion to the neighboring pixels;} while(kg-- count + cg-- count + mg-- count + yg--count) >MAX)elseif(kg(i,j).count-- max + cg(i,j).count-- max + mg(i,j).count.sub.-- max + yg(i,j).count-- max) >MAX)do{assign: kg-- count = kg(i,j).count-- max;cg-- count = cg(i,j).count-- max;mg-- count = mg(i,j).count-- max;yg-- count = yg(i,j).count-- max;identiy the maximum of the set (kg-- count,cg-- count,mg--count);decrement the max value to its next lower table entry for the same graylevel;if next entry is not available, then decrement to the nextlower grey level and perform the corresponding errordiffusion;update count assignment;} while((kg count + cg count + mg count + yg count) >MAX)else{assign: kg-- count = kg(i,j).count-- max;cg-- count = cg(i,j).count-- max;mg-- count = mg(i,j).count-- max;yg-- count = yg(i,j).count-- max;}}__________________________________________________________________________
An example of the above minimum and maximum C, Y, M and K drop counting and initial gray scale assignment is as follows: Assume that the read pixel values on the 256 level gray scale are K=20, C=50, M=35 and Y=0. Converting these values to the 16 gray scale will yield K=1 plus a remainder of 4, C=3 plus a remainder of 2, M=2 plus a remainder of 3, and Y=0. The above remainders are diffused via error diffusion into the surrounding pixels and using the well known Floyd and Steinberg algorithm. This error diffusion is made into pixels surrounding the particular chosen pixel within the above gray levels of 1, 3 and 2. From the table in FIG. 2B, the drop count minimum for the above 1, 3, 2 and 0 levels of gray scale are Kgmin =1, Cymin =2, Mgmin =1 and Ygmin =0 or a total minimum drop count of 4. The drop count maximum for these same levels of gray scale are Kgmax =1, Cymax =3, Mgmax =2 and Ygmax =0, or a total maximum drop count of 6. Thus, if the maximum allowable drop count for each 2�2 super pixel is 8 drops, then the minimum (4) and maximum (6) drop count numbers give above will both be less than Vmax and a measurement of the total maximum drop count in step 46 of FIG. 3B will in turn generate an output signal on line 48 for directly controlling the color printer 18.
In another example of C, Y, M and K drop counting, assume that K=70, C=75, M=35 and Y=0. Converting these values to the 16 level gray scale will yield Kg=4 with a remainder Ke=6; Cg=4 with a remainder Ke=11; Mg=2 with a remainder Me=3; and Yg=0 with a remainder Ye=0. From the table in FIG. 2B, the drop count minimum for the above Kgmin, Cgmin, Mgmin and Ygmin values is 1+1+1+0=3, whereas the drop count maximum for the above Kgmax, Cgmax, Mgmax and Ygmax values is 4+4+2�0=10. Thus, if Vmax =8, the drop count minimum output signal from step 26 is not greater than Vmax, so that no drop count minimum output signal is applied from step 28 to step 30, and step 44 is now activated. However, since the drop count maximum of 10 exceeds a Vmax of 8, the now activated step 44 begins a maximum drop counting function as previously described above with reference to FIG. 3B. This operation in turn will activate the test step 46 and ask step 46 if a drop count of 10 is greater than a Vmax of 8. Since this answer is "yes", then step 52 is activated to identify the color plane of the highest drop count in this gray scale reading which is K=4, or the input data which is applied to step 54. Since a lower drop count does exist at the same gray scale level as the level for K=4, and this lower drop count is K=3 as indicated in the level 4, 3/4 column in FIG. 2A, then a "yes" signal is generated on line 56 and is applied to step 58 which decrements the drop count to K=3. Step 58 reduces or decrements the new total drop count sum to 9 instead of 10. The updating of the new drop count sum is performed in step 70.
How, is the new drop count sum of 9 still greater than of Vmax of 8? The answer is "yes" as is indicated in step 72, and thus a feedback signal on line 76 is applied to step 52 to again identify the color plane of the next highest drop count. As indicated in the numbers of this example, the answer is C=4 and this information is applied to step 54 where C=4 is used to determine if a lower drop count for C or cyan exists at the same gray level in FIG. 2A as the level for C=4. Since the answer is "yes", the signal generated on line 56 is applied again to step 58 where C=4 is decremented to C=3 and then applied to step 70. In step 70 a new total drop count sum of 8 is generated and is applied to step 72 for receiving another new drop count comparison.
Since the new drop count total of 8 is not greater than a Vmax of 8, a "no" signal is generated on line 74 and is applied to either a color printer 18 in real time or stored in a printer storage file for subsequent use.
In yet a third example of C, Y, M and K drop counting, assume that the read pixel values are as follows: K=85, C=85, M=85, Y=0. Converting these values to the 16 level gray scale will yield Kg=5+Ke=5; Cg=5+Ce=5; Mg=5+Me=5; and Yg=0 and Ye=0. From the table in FIG. 2B, the drop count minimum for Kgmin, Cgmin, Mgmin and Ygmin, respectively=2+2+2+0=6, and the drop count maximum for Kgmax, Cgmax, Mgmax and Ygmax, respectively=3+3+3+0=9. Assume further for this particular example that Vmax =5, so that the drop count minimum sum is greater than Vmax and a "yes" output signal is generated on line 29 and applied to step 30 to thereby activate the subsequent steps 32, 34, 36, 38, and feedback loop 42 as previously described. Here in this loop containing steps 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and feedback line 42 the drop count minimum selection from the gray table of FIG. 2B will be decremented as previously described until a "no" output signal is generated on the output line 40 from the yes/no test step 38.
When using a multidrop color imaging system such as the one described in the above U.S. Pat. No. 4,680,645 issued to Dispoto et al. which fires drops on top of drops in a single pixel, the drop count and dye loading selection process is complete at this point. However, when the drops are fired into super pixels such as a 2�2 super pixel, the fired drops must now be assigned to a desired pixel quadrant as they are sequentially fired in to the super pixel. This operation is described below with reference to FIG. 4.
FIG. 4 shows a matrix of 12 color planes of 2�2 super pixels including three rows of high, medium, and low dye loadings versus four columns of black, cyan, magenta and yellow colors. Although these twelve super pixels are shown as being physically separated in FIG. 4, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that these super pixels are all superimposed on one another in the print scanning operation described below and thereby actually occupy the same space on the print media. Accordingly, the physical separation of these twelve super pixels in FIG. 4 is made for purposes of explanation only.
These super pixels are sequentially addressed from left to right and starting at the top or H row and then proceeding vertically down through the M & L rows in the normal manner of scanning a printed surface area. These 12 super pixels represent the timed sequence of successive dot printing in order to achieve a minimum of color contrast on a printed page. The black, cyan, magenta and yellow colors are arbitrarily assigned designated digits of 0, 1, 2 and 3, respectively, whereas the high, medium and low levels of dye loading are assigned weighted units of 0, 1 and 2 respectively. Thus, when one is printing sequentially from left to right and then scanning vertically down the matrix in FIG. 4, the individually assigned pixels for receiving successive drops of ink are continuously changed in a clockwise rotation in moving from pixel to pixel. In this manner, each successively printed pixel receives in succession (and in accordance with its assigned gray scale drop count number) the colors C, Y, M and black cycled in order through the high, medium and low dye loadings.
The firing sequence of the color printhead of the ink jet printer under control is continuously controlled to print the next adjacent quadrant of each super pixel as each super pixel is printed in succession. This clockwise (or counter clockwise) clocking action continues to rotate the location of each next printed individual pixel to the next super pixel quadrant, so that each successively printed drop of ink is rotated to the next adjacent quadrant of each super pixel until all of the scanned super 2�2 pixels are printed in succession. In this manner, the ink is distributed over the entire super pixel matrix in FIG. 4 in a highly uniform manner, and this operation minimizes the ink volume per unit of printed area ratio for an ink jet printing operation. This action in turn simultaneously minimizes both paper cockleing and color contrast or grainyness of the printed hardcopy output from an ink jet printer.
The above operation will be better understood with reference to an example of the finally adjusted gray scale information which is applied to the color printer or printer storage file 18 from one of the input lines 40, 48 or 74 connected thereto as shown in FIG. 3B. As shown in the example of FIG. 4, assume that the "High" column of K, C, M and Y data is 2, 2, 1, 0, that the "Medium" column of K, C, M, and Y data is 2, 2, 0, 1 and that the "Low" column of K, C, M, Y data is 0, 0, 2, 0. Using this gray scale K, C, M and Y information, the pixel rotational and scanning operation will proceed as follows: The K=2 in the "High" dye loading column will eject drops into quadrants 76 and 78 of the super pixel 80. Then, rotating clockwise, the C=2 "High" dye loading will eject drops in the next clockwise adjacent quadrants 82 and 84 of the next super pixel 86. For M=1 in the "High" column, a drop is ejected in adjacent quadrant 88 of the next adjacent super pixel 90. Then, for Y=0 the next super pixel 92 is skipped.
Next the "Medium" dye loading column is addressed and K=2 therein puts drops in quadrants 94 and 96 in super pixel 98; C=2 puts drops in the next adjacent clockwise quadrants 100 and 102 of the next super pixel 104; M=0 causes the next super pixel 106 to be skipped; and Y=1 then puts a drop in quadrant of super pixel 110.
Continuing, a "Low" column K=0 and C=0 causes super pixels 112 and 114 to be skipped, respectively; a low M=2 puts drops in the next adjacent clockwise quadrants 116 and 118 of the next super pixel 120 and a low Y=0 causes the last pixel 122 of the matrix to be skipped. Then the above described operation is repeated for the next received gray scale data applied to the printer 18.
The above pixel selection process described with reference to FIG. 4 is defined in code form by the following pseudo code shown in the table below for the 2�2 super pixel assignment-defining data structure.
TABLE II__________________________________________________________________________Pseudo code for 2X2 Super-pixel assignmentdefining data structured[plane][level];/* plane: 0 = > black *//* 1 = > cyan *//* 2 => magenta *//* 3 => yellow *//* level: 0 = > high *//* 1 = > medium *//* 2 = > low */super-- pixel[plane][level][location];/* plane : defined as above *//* level : defined as above *//* location : 0 = > top left *//* 1 = > top right *//* 2 = > bottom right *//* 3 = > bottom left */kount = 0;for j = 0 to 2 /* gray level */for i = 0 to 3 /* color plane */if ( d[i][j]> 0 )for k= 1 to d[i][j](location = kount mod 4 ;super-- pixel[i][j][location]=1; /* 1=>presence other=>absence */kount = kount + 1 ;}}__________________________________________________________________________
The scheme of dots assignment to a 2�2 super-pixel is to assign the dots counts in the sequence of their highest gray level plane from black, cyan, magenta to yellow. This scheme is then repeated as described in the example given above for medium and low gray level.
Various modifications may be made in the above described embodiment without departing from the scope of this invention. As an example, a different dye loading ratio of 8:3:1 may be used with a 32 level gray scale and with a 2�2 super pixel in accordance with the above teachings. In addition, this invention may be used with different size drop volumes or with multi-drop formatting where the print area is only a single pixel. However, in the multi-drop printing process, higher print frequencies are required as compared to those required by the present invention. Also, the present invention is not limited to use by thermal ink jet printers, and may be used with other different types of ink jet printers such as thermal transfer or piezoelectric ink jet printers.
The present invention may also be modified by one skilled in the art to make it adaptable for use with different ink drop volumes (e.g. 160, 80 and 40 picoliters) such as those described in commonly assigned U.S. Pat. No. 4,746,935 issued to Ross R. Allen. Using a suitable modification of the data processing methodology shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, it is possible to accommodate the used of multiple drop sizes with or without the use of multiple gray levels.
In priority of selecting the highest drop count from the (C, Y, M, K) colors, there may be an advantage to modify this set to only (C, M, Y) colors only and to leave the black or K plane of information intact. This is because the black plane contains most of the resolution information, and this is especially true for the case of 100% UCR where the error diffusion of the color plane will only slightly alter the chromaticity of the printed image. Additionally, the visual perception is more sensitive to resolution than it is to color information.
Finally, as a practical matter, the yellow gray scale is of least importance, so from both a hardware and a software standpoint, a single dye level of yellow would be acceptable.
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