Patent Document ID: 20140016146
Application ID: 13547875
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for processing isolated holes of an image to be printed by a printer, comprising: generating at a processor a random number lying in a finite range of numbers; determining at the processor whether a target pixel is to be turned off and enabled for printing as a hole; determining at the processor a sum of pixels surrounding a target pixel in a plurality of pixels in a scanline of the image, the target pixel corresponding to an isolated hole in an input image, that are in an on state, the on state defined by a higher binary logic level relative to a binary logic level corresponding to a turned off pixel; determining at the processor a numerical value stored in a lookup table in a memory unit coupled to the processor using the determined number of pixels that are in the turned on state surrounding the target pixel; comparing at the processor the generated random number to the determined numerical value; and determining at the processor whether the target pixel enabled for holegrowth is to be enabled for holegrowth based upon the comparing.