Patent Document ID: 20020159094
Application ID: 09817932
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for generating a halftone of a source image, the halftone including halftone pixels, the halftone pixels being suitable for containing halftone dots, the method comprising steps of: (A) selecting glyphs corresponding to regions in the source image, the glyphs including halftone dots; (B) selecting, from among the halftone pixels, a first halftone pixel and a second halftone pixel that share a pixel boundary; (C) locating a first one of the halftone dots within the first halftone pixel so that the first halftone dot abuts the pixel boundary; and (D) locating a second one of the halftone dots within the second halftone pixel so that the second halftone dot abuts the pixel boundary.