Patent ID: 8537424

Claim:
A method comprising: forming an array comprising a plurality of microcells, each microcell of the plurality of microcells including a plurality of pixels; for each pixel in each of the plurality of microcells, assigning (i) a respective pixel offset factor that is associated with a relative position of the pixel in the respective microcell, wherein the pixel offset factors are associated with an order in which individual pixels within a microcell are darkened while generating halftone images, and (ii) a respective microcell offset factor that is associated with an index of the respective microcell, wherein the microcell offset factors are associated with an order in which individual microcells within the array are darkened while generating halftone images; and for each pixel in each of the plurality of microcells, determining a respective final offset factor that is based at least in part on the respective pixel offset factor and the respective microcell offset factor, wherein the final offset factors are associated with an order in which individual pixels and individual microcells within the array are darkened while generating halftone images.