Patent Document ID: 6091482
Application ID: 08862028
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for interlacing and mapping a plurality of graphic images, each including continuous tone and/or linework portions, to a lenticular lens comprising: creating a digitized pixel array of each separate image with a continuous tone portion of the image including a plurality of data bits representing a particular address corresponding to the location of a pixel in the image and a value representing the particular color which occurs at that location, and a linework portion of the image including a plurality of data bits representing a starting location and an ending location within the image and a value representing a particular color which is continuous between the respective locations; separately assembling a continuous tone image and a linework image from each pixel array; combining segments of each continuous tone image in a predetermined pattern with segments from each of the other continuous tone images so as to interlace portions of the respective images and produce a resulting composite image; separately combining segments of each linework image in a predetermined pattern with segments from each of the other linework images so as to interlace portions of the respective images and also produce a resulting composite image; and, producing from the respective interlaced continuous tone and linework images a plot whose features represent a map of the combined composite images, said map being used in a subsequent printing operation to produce a printed image viewed through a lenticular lens.