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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:
May. 09, 1989
Filed:
May. 04, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
David D Pape, Framingham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 41 ; 364757 ; 382 49 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for high speed parallel processing of image data corresponding to picture elements of an image in which the image data for each picture element is formatted as a binary word for multiplication by a plurality of different coefficients also in binary format. Parallel processing is accomplished by a plurality of multiplication circuits each of which stores select coefficients and receives binary formatted image data words simultaneously in timed sequence from the least significant data bit to the most significant data bit.