Patent ID: 11868070
Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining an average toner usage rate includes computing a cross-track image profile Pi(x) from the image data for each page in the block of pages:, P
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where Ii(x,y) is the image data for the ith page, x and y are cross-track and in-track pixel positions, respectively, and Ny is a number of image data pixels in an in-track dimension.