Tektronix, Inc.

Bruce E Petrick

Perry E Wingfield

Apparatus for defining a bank of sequential windows from a raster-scanned image of a document for storage in a data base. In addition, the apparatus includes a look-up table for each window wherein the bit pattern of the window is used to determine the correction factor which is applied to the next window as the 'new' bit from a set of patterns and correction factors derived from well known algorithms developed to minimize the amount of data needed to electronically recreate a given document. The apparatus also includes storage devices to permit the application of the algorithm in overlapping pieces over the face of the document.

Method and apparatus for forming 3.times.3 pixel arrays and for

A microprocessor stepper motor drive uses a single acceleration/deceleration profile regardless of the final velocity of the device being driven. A first down counter stores the desired final velocity from a microprocessor. An acceleration/deceleration profile is stored in a storage device and added to the desired final velocity to produce a smooth velocity profile.

Microprocessor stepper motor drive

A method and apparatus for removing undesirable dots and voids which are smaller than the user defined smallest data item of a bit-map image of a picture being scanned by a picture coding system. The bit-map is delayed as it is being generated to form a series of tessellations or windows of data of selected sizes. The windows are propagated through a series of neighborhood-logic elements which with the output data level of the outer ring of neighborhood-logic elements which define the window being examined to determine if those data levels are all of the same sense. If they are all of the same sense, then all of the neighborhood-logic elements which define the interior of the window are set or cleared so that the output data levels of all of the neighborhood-logic elements which define the window are of the same sense.

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Bruce E Petrick