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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andrew J Lincoln, Concord, MA (US);
Robert Osborn, Arlington, MA (US);
Geoffrey A Dreher, Nashua, NH (US);
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364900 ; 364519 ; 340799 ; 400 76 ;
Abstract
A control apparatus for transferring characters from a font memory to a printer including a microprocessor which controls input and output of characters to and from a strip memory, tracks the status of input/output operations to insure overwriting of the memory does not occur, and supplies a minimal amount of control information to hardwired circuitry from which character building processes are autonomously controlled.