US Patent Issued to Hamillroad Software on May 13 for "Computer program for generating 1-bit image data from multiple-bit image data" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. RE50,433, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hamillroad Software Ltd. (Histon, Great Britain).

"Computer program for generating 1-bit image data from multiple-bit image data" was invented by Andrew William Peter Cave (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program for, or method of, generating 1-bit image data from multiple-bit image data, by a process which comprises the steps of: receiving multiple-bit image data comprising multiple-bit pixel values; and deriving from the multiple-bit pixel values 1-bit image data comprising "on" and "off pixel values, each pixel value of the 1-bit image data corresponding to a ...