Patent ID: 7744185

Claim:
A product of the process for constructing a superpixel to be replicated on the surface of an absorbent textile substrate, said superpixel being comprised of a plurality of contiguous pixels that collectively provide said superpixel with a geometric shape that can be tiled on said substrate surface, each of said plurality of contiguous pixels comprising said superpixel being assigned a color from a dither palette in a relative proportion to simulate a target color, wherein said colors are individually assigned to pixels within said superpixel in accordance with a placement algorithm that precludes the assignment of the same color on adjacent pixels within said superpixel, said individual assignment of color to each of said plurality of contiguous pixels results in the application of at least one liquid colorant to an area on said substrate corresponding to that pixel by a plurality of individually-actuated colorant applicators in response to digitally-encoded patterning data.