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5606657 Virtual graphics processor for embedded real time display systems  
The virtual graphics processor is a software process that enables different video display systems to execute the same graphical display application. The process also permits the display application...
5602986 Data processing and memory systems with retained background color information  
A data processing and memory system for transferring data elements page-by-page between several memories and modifying the data elements in the first memory. In order to reduce the set-up time when...
5594860 Method for banding and rasterizing an image in a multiprocessor printing system  
A printer controller system for converting a page description language datastream into a pagemap and for dispatching the pagemap to a print engine one band at a time. The system includes the steps...
5592595 Intelligent cartridge for attachment to a printer to perform image processing tasks in a combination image processing system and method of image processing  
The image processing performance of a present day or existing page printer, e.g., electrophotographic printer, is improved and accelerated with the use of a detachable intelligent cartridge which...
5586256 Computer system using multidimensional addressing between multiple processors having independently addressable internal memory for efficient reordering and redistribution of data arrays between the processors  
A computer system includes sixteen data processors each connected to a communication bus. The communication bus comprises a data bus for carrying data, and an address bus for carrying associated...
5586246 Image synthesis apparatus  
An image synthesis apparatus for synthesizing an image using model data including information which defines a three-dimensional structure for an object having a plurality of faces, original image...
5579453 Smart direct memory access controller  
A smart direct memory access controller for data space transformation. The smart direct memory access controller can be used in computer systems to read and/or write data in a non-linear fashion in...
5577191 System and method for digital video editing and publishing, using intraframe-only video data in intermediate steps  
A system for digital video editing and publishing is disclosed including a video capture unit, a video compression unit, and video decompression unit coupled to a host computer having video editing...
5577192 Frame register switching for a video processor  
A video register interface for a video processor in which each frame register has a first storage element which is written by a microprocessor interface independently from a second storage element...
5564117 Computer system including a page printer controller including a single chip supercalar microprocessor with graphical functional units  
A VLSIC page printer controller includes an instruction processor which responds to a host computer and a printer video processor for accessing data from memory under the control of the instruction...
5559951 Page printer controller including a single chip superscalar microprocessor with graphics functional units  
A VLSIC page printer controller includes an instruction processor which responds to a host computer and a printer video processor for accessing data from memory under the control of the instruction...
5560034 Shared command list  
A method and apparatus for processing digital video data with a first processor and a second processor, wherein the two processors run asynchronously. First and second processor offsets are...
5548740 Information processor efficiently using a plurality of storage devices having different access speeds and a method of operation thereof  
An information processing system includes a first memory, a second memory such as a printer buffer capable of a high speed access and independent of the first memory, and an external storage device...
5546530 Method and apparatus for rendering graphical images using parallel processing  
A distributed animation comprising a plurality of processors wherein each processor is responsible for rendering only a portion of the entire image. After the plurality of processors compute their...
5539873 Picture storage apparatus and graphic engine apparatus  
A memory M i has a storage capacity one-sixteenth of a memory capacity corresponding to the resolution of a display screen. A pixel processor XP i controls readout and writing of pixel data from...
5535413 System including plurality of data driven processors connected to each other  
The system includes data driven processors each having inputs and outputs. Each processor includes a processing unit processing, according to a program, a data packet having processor specifying...
5533170 Rasterizer for a pattern generation apparatus  
A rasterizer for generating pixel values for a pattern generation apparatus. The pixel values drive the printing mechanism of the pattern generation apparatus. The rasterizer receives a file...
5530798 Apparatus and method for cascading graphic processors  
A cascaded apparatus of graphic processors for cascading a main graphic processor and at least one secondary graphic processor comprising a clock generator for generating the clock signal to...
5530797 Workstation for simultaneously displaying overlapped windows using a priority control register  
Pixel data is selected from among first and second dynamic-image memories (DI1, DI2) and a static-memory (SI). In the invention, (a) first and second window area memories (WA1, WA2) for designating...
5528375 Apparatus for and method of scheduling and printing a job in a printing machine  
A method is provided for printing a job in a printing system including a printer communicating with a memory section, wherein images, in the form of image data, are transmitted to the memory...
5517612 Device for scaling real-time image frames in multi-media workstations  
An adapter for use in a multi-media workstation includes a device which accepts real-time video information at a first size, reduces the size to a selected one of a plurality of available sizes and...
5517603 Scanline rendering device for generating pixel values for displaying three-dimensional graphical images  
A rendering device for providing 3-D graphics rendering in a computer system. A hardware scanline rendering approach is utilized. Using a hardware scanline rendering approach the bandwidth...
5515076 Multi-dimensional array video processor system  
A digitized video system having a processor and a video memory. The processor converts a stream of digital information to extract planes of a three dimensional image to store into the video memory...
5511154 Method and apparatus for managing concurrent access to multiple memories  
A memory apparatus includes a circuit for receiving and serially storing a plurality of instructions and a plurality of buffer memories each including a buffer controller for regulating access to...
5511156 Interpreter for executing rasterize processing to obtain printing picture element information  
The rasterize processing for obtaining printing picture element information from a source file described in a page-description language is distributed-processed by a plurality of information...
5506693 Addressing mechanism for interfacing spatially defined imagery data with sequential memory  
An imagery data memory addressing mechanism writes data representative of respective pixel values of an image into and reads out of immediately successive storage locations of memory, irrespective...
5500945 Apparatus and method for controlling a system bus of a multiprocessor system  
In a bus arbiter connected to a system bus of a multi-processor system having a plurality of modules respectively having processors, a first unit detects an abnormality in the multi-processor...
5500939 Graphic data parallel processing and displaying apparatus with increased data storage efficiency  
A graphic data parallel processing and displaying apparatus employs a plurality of graphic processors having a respectively associated plurality of FIFO memories and operates with a reduced waiting...
5493646 Pixel block transfer with transparency  
A data processor with a transparency detection data transfer controller transfers data from a block of source addresses to a block of destination addresses. A transparency register stores...
5483627 Preprocessing pipeline for real-time object based graphics systems  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for preprocessing fragments of two-dimensional graphic objects prior to display in a real-time rasterized format. The apparatus is formed as a pipeline having a...
5473749 Image processing system having plurality of processors acting on image data according to stored program from host computer  
In processing image data by a plurality of processors in accordance with processing information from a host computer, such processing information is stored in a program memory at an address...
5461679 Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image data  
An apparatus and method for processing video data for compression/decompression in real-time. The apparatus comprises a plurality of compute modules, in a preferred embodiment, for a total of four...
5457779 System for accessing graphic data in a SIMD processing environment  
An electronic logic and computer implemented apparatus and method for accessing graphic geometric data within a computer display system utilizing an SIMD environment. The present invention spreads...
5457780 System for producing a video-instruction set utilizing a real-time frame differential bit map and microblock subimages  
The present invention pertains to integrated circuit system based on novel architecture of Video-Instruction-Sec-Computing (VISC). The integrated circuit comprises a plurality of functional units...
5446839 Method for controlling dataflow between a plurality of circular buffers  
A video processor system has memory locations for storing images including a buffer block of memory locations. Two separate video processors within the system read and write the buffer block while...
5440718 Single semiconductor substrate RAM device utilizing data compressing/expanding mechanism in a multi-microprocessor environment  
Compressor/expander circuits which are built in a common semiconductor substrate along with a random access memory unit function so as to realize compression/expansion processes merely through the...
5437011 Graphics computer system, a graphics system arrangement, a display system, a graphics processor and a method of processing graphic data  
The graphics data processor of the present invention offers as a single instruction in its instruction set a draw and advance operation. A first data register stores a set of X and Y coordinates....
5430841 Context management in a graphics system  
A method and apparatus for the management of the data associated with multiple graphics contexts in a computer graphics rendering system. Graphics contexts are built by graphics engines and...
5408650 Memory analysis system for dynamically displaying memory allocation and de-allocation events associated with an application program  
A memory analysis system analyzes memory "events," i.e., the allocation or deallocation of memory locations, associated with the execution of an application program and produces a graphic display...
5408606 Computer graphics system with parallel processing using a switch structure  
Front end processors in a graphics architecture execute parallel scan conversion and shading to first process individually assigned primitive objects for providing update pixels. A crossbar...
5388204 Method of and apparatus for combining linework data  
A plurality of linework data including run length data are combined at a high speed and without reconverting run-length data to pixel image data. During the combining operation based on linework...
5381347 Method and system for displaying images on a display device using an offscreen video memory  
A user invokes an application program and initiates a request to display an image on a display device. In response, a display device driver creates a bitmap in an offscreen video memory of an...
5377321 Image forming apparatus having settable inference rules  
An image forming apparatus such as copying apparatus or laser beam printer in which each section of the apparatus is controlled by using a fuzzy inference. The apparatus comprises: processors to...
5377320 Method and apparatus for the rendering of trimmed nurb surfaces  
A unique graphics pipeline and method for utilizing the same to render trimmed non-uniform rational b-spline (NURBS) surfaces is described. To render a graphics primitive such as a trimmed NURBS,...
5369738 Distributed processing apparatus and method for use in global rendering  
A method and apparatus for use in a three dimensional computer graphics renderer employing global illumination distributes ray intersection calculations over a plurality of transform processors to...
5367632 Flexible memory controller for graphics applications  
An implementation of a flexible memory controller for a graphics hardware system that supports flexible allocation of frame buffer resources. The buffer selection and steering to the channels of...
5361387 Video accelerator and method using system RAM  
A computer video display acceleration system and method is disclosed for increasing the speed with which modifications can be made to video memory. This system and method uses a video buffer...
5349647 Input/output coprocessor for printing machine  
In accordance with the present invention, an improved printing machine for concurrently processing first and second sets of image data is provided. The printing machine preferably comprises a video...
5339394 I/O register protection circuit  
A data processing system is provided that includes a plurality of processors each including a circuit for providing a busy signal. The system also includes a plurality of registers for storing data...
5333246 Page-description language interpreter for a parallel-processing system  
The rasterize processing for obtaining printing picture element information from a source file described in a page-description language is distributed-processed by a plurality of information...
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