Real-time engine for paintbrush function on electronic papers

This paper presents a signal processing engine aiming to provide the brush function for electronic papers. The engine contains four stages: (a) screening the detected pixel coordinates, (b) interpolating pixels, (c) image halftoning for generating more visual gray levels, and (d) driving the pixels to the target states. The experimental results show that the engine can complete the pixel interpolation as well as produce the gray-tone traces in order to meet the real-time requirement.