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EFS-ABX Image Quality

March 14th, 2010 by , under nnmj.com.

  • I am the inventor of an open source system called "Context Driven Topologies" a long term archiving and knowledge management system that streamlines information and includes museum quality images, dimensions, proportions, chronological sequences,geographic locations, and highly defined mathematical relationships in searches. My patent specifications include a black and white photograph and hand drawings. These images are being unacceptably compromised during the "true black and white" conversion process that is required to file the specification electronically (I originally was a paper filer). The software is EFS-ABX, created by USPTO and Microsoft, to allow inventors to author their own XML documents which are eventually converted into .pdf/.tiff at 300 dpi using group four compression which becomes the archive and published document. The originals I am trying to incorporate are .tiff files and 300 dpi is more than sufficient to convey their content - yet - my drawings and the photograph keep being destroyed during the conversion process, there are no settings to modify or no controls. There appears to be no way of going around EFS-ABX by creating my own XML document or similar options. Does anyone have any advice on how to improve the image quality during the true black and white conversion process in EFS-ABX?


  • Unfortunately, the figures/pictures lose quality when they are converted to B/W. However, in practice this is not a big deal. Submit the patent electronically with the figures of low quality. Then wait for the application number and submit substitute figures by mail. There is no cost for the submission. Or, just wait until you get a notice for formal drawing and then submit the higher quality figures.







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