Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Predicting depleted printing device colorant from color fading
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Application No.: US16604154Application Date: 2018-01-25
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Publication No.: US10999452B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Richard E Maggard , Mark Shaw , Katelyn Christene Morse , Jan Allebach , Zuguang Xiao , Shaoyuan Xu
- Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US TX Spring
- Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Current Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Spring
- Agent Michael A Dryja
- International Application: PCT/US2018/015249 WO 20180125
- International Announcement: WO2019/147247 WO 20190801
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00 ; H04N1/60

Abstract:
Pixel blocks of a user-generated print job raster page are clustered into raster color clusters, and pixel blocks of a corresponding scanned page are clustered into scanned color clusters. For each raster color cluster, if a color difference between the cluster and a corresponding scanned color cluster is greater than a threshold, color fading of the cluster is determined from simulated depletion of each colorant of a printing device, and a likely depleted colorant is determined based on the corresponding scanned color cluster and the determined color fading. A most likely depleted colorant is determined from the likely depleted colorant predicted for each raster color cluster for which the determined color difference is greater than the threshold.
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