Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Mary T Prenn

Bradley R Larson

John Harris

Russell Fredrickson

Richard W Hernandez

A data structure includes entries corresponding to a plurality of tiles that form part of an image, where a given entry of the entries includes color information for a given tile of the plurality of tiles. Image data in the given tile is created using the color information of the given entry, where creating the image data in the given tile using the color information of the given entry is performed without using input image data for the given tile.

Creating image data for a tile on an image

A hardware controller includes a first hardware interface, a second hardware interface, first hardware logic, and second hardware logic. The first hardware interface is to couple the hardware controller to hardware entities of a hardware device in which the hardware controller is to be included. The second hardware interface is to couple the hardware controller to a memory to receive instructions. The first hardware logic is to choose a selected hardware entity from the hardware entities. The second hardware logic is to execute the instructions in relation to the selected hardware entity.

Hardware controller to choose selected hardware entity and to execute instructions in relation to selected hardware entity

A system includes a client management component, a monitor component, and a hardware resource component, each of which is implemented in hardware. The client management component chooses a selected client from one or more clients for which a given task is to be fulfilled by a selected hardware resource of one or more hardware resources. The monitor component receives the given task and an identifier of the selected client from the client management component and monitors completion of the given task for the selected client by the selected hardware resource. The hardware resource management receives the given task from the monitor component, chooses the selected hardware resource that is to fulfill the given task, and launches the given task on the selected hardware resource.

Task launching on hardware resource for client

An apparatus and methods for processing image data in which an image pipeline serially processes columnar regions of a multi-row strip of the image data.

Processing image data strips in columnar regions

An apparatus and methods for processing image data in multi-row strips to generate print data for colorizers of a printer.

Processing image data strips

A hardware interrupt processing circuit converts selected hardware interrupts to an interrupt vector having bits corresponding to the selected hardware interrupts. The hardware interrupt processing circuit includes circuit assemblies that correspond to the selected hardware interrupts. Each circuit assembly includes a detector circuit and a persistent capture circuit. The detector circuit is to output a pulse responsive to the corresponding selected hardware interrupt being asserted. The persistent capture circuit is triggered by the persistent capture circuit to output a corresponding bit of the interrupt vector until a ready signal has been asserted.

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Mary T Prenn