Inventors:
Guotong Feng - West Lafayette IN, US
Michael George Fuchs - Boise ID, US
Charles A. Bouman - West Lafayette IN, US
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX
International Classification:
H04N 1/405
Abstract:
A device to translate an input pixel value to an output pixel value for a current pixel includes a diffusion block to produce a diffusion error to add to the input pixel value to produce a diffused pixel value. In addition, the device includes a feedback modulation block to generate a threshold value, the threshold value determined using a value of an earlier output pixel value, the earlier output pixel value occurring at a predetermined number of pixels prior to the current pixel. Furthermore, the device includes a quantizer to compare the diffused pixel value to the threshold value and based on the comparison to select a value for the output pixel value.