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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 1986
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
David E Finlay, Boulder, CO (US);
Jesus C Lopez, Longmont, CO (US);
Thomas S Mereness, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 46 ;
Abstract
The invention provides a printer with a capability of printing in any one of a plurality of rotations. Component image data is stored in a library. The component image data is subdivided into data sets or quads. The size of a quad is selected so that it can be readily rotated with simple hardware. As the data sets are written to a buffer, they are rotated, and the locations in the buffer at which the different data sets are written depends on the selected rotation, to provide for data rotation 'on the fly'.