IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,637,946
Granted Patent B2
US 11,637,946 · App. 17/534,617 · Granted Apr 25, 2023

Iterative uniformity compensation mechanism

Inventors: Mikel Stanich (Longmont, CO); Nikita Gurudath (Boulder, CO); Walter F. Kailey (Frederick, CO)
Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
H04N1/6041G06K15/027G06K15/1881H04N1/405H04N1/603
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Patent No.
US 11,637,946
App. No.
17/534,617
Granted
Apr 25, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store halftone calibration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the halftone calibration logic to receive print image measurement data corresponding to a first halftone design associated with each of a plurality of pel forming elements, generate measurement data for each of the pel forming elements based on the print image measurement data, generate a uniformity compensated halftone for each of the pel forming elements based on inverse transfer functions corresponding to each of the pel forming elements and the first halftone design and transmit the uniformity compensated halftone for each of the pel forming elements.

Claims (34)

1. A system comprising:

at least one physical memory device to store calibration logic; and

one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the calibration logic to:

receive print image measurement data corresponding to a first set of transfer functions associated with each of a plurality of pel forming elements;

generate measurement data for each of the pel forming elements based on the print image measurement data;

generate a second set of transfer functions associated with each of the pel forming elements; and

apply the second transfer functions to the first transfer functions to generate cumulative transfer functions, wherein the cumulative transfer functions are applied to image data to print an image to a print medium.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the print image measurement data comprises optical density data associated with each of the pel forming elements.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the calibration logic further transmits a message to the printing system indicating that variations in the measurement data are less than a pre-determined threshold upon determining that the variations in the measurement data are less than the pre-determined threshold.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the calibration logic generates the second set of transfer functions as a set of cascaded transfer functions.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the measurement data for each of the pel forming elements is generated by performing an interpolation on the optical density data.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the calibration logic further generates a first calibration step chart based on the first set of transfer functions.

7. The system of claim 4 , wherein the set of cascaded transfer functions are generated by modifying the first set of transfer functions.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the calibration logic further generates a third set of transfer functions associated with each of the pel forming elements based on a second measurement data for each of the pel forming elements and target data for each of the pel forming elements.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the target data is used for each of the pel forming elements to achieve uniform optical density printing.

10. The system of claim 6 , wherein the calibration logic further generates a second calibration step chart based on the second set of transfer functions.

11. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a print engine to receive the cumulative transfer functions from the calibration logic and apply the cumulative transfer functions to the image data.

12. At least one non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to:

receive print image measurement data corresponding to a first set of transfer functions associated with each of a plurality of pel forming elements;

generate measurement data for each of the pel forming elements based on the print image measurement data; and

generate a second set of transfer functions associated with each of the pel forming elements; and

apply the second transfer functions to the first transfer functions to generate cumulative transfer functions, wherein the cumulative transfer functions are applied to image data to print an image to a print medium.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the print image measurement data comprises optical density data associated with each of the pel forming elements.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 12 , having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, further cause the processors to transmit a message to the printing system indicating that variations in the measurement data are less than a pre-determined threshold upon determining that the variations in the measurement data are less than the pre-determined threshold.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 12 , having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, further cause the processors to generate the second set of transfer functions as a set of cascaded transfer functions.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the measurement data for each of the pel forming elements is generated by performing an interpolation on the optical density data.

17. A method comprising:

receiving print image measurement data corresponding to a first set of transfer functions associated with each of a plurality of pel forming elements;

generating measurement data for each of the pel forming elements based on the print image measurement data; and

generating a second set of transfer functions associated with each of the pel forming elements; and

applying the second transfer functions to the first transfer functions to generate cumulative transfer functions, wherein the cumulative transfer functions are applied to image data to print an image to a print medium.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the print image measurement data comprises optical density data associated with each of the pel forming elements.

19. The method of claim 17 , further comprising transmitting a message to the printing system indicating that variations in the measurement data are less than a pre-determined threshold upon determining that the variations in the measurement data are less than the pre-determined threshold.

20. The method of claim 17 , further comprising generating the second set of transfer functions as a set of cascaded transfer functions.

Continuity (2)
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