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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. 27, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1986
Jimmy E Chandler, Holly Hill, FL (US);
Richard G Fadden, Ormond Beach, FL (US);
General Electric Company, Syracuse, NY (US);
Abstract
A full color real time cell texture generator uses a tapered quantization scheme for establishing a small set of colors representative of all colors of a source image. A source image to be displayed is quantitized by selecting the color of the small set nearest the color of the source image for each cell of the source image. Nearness is measured as Euclidian distance in a three-space coordinate system of the primary colors: red, green and blue. In a specific embodiment, an 8-bit modulation code is used to control each of the red, green, blue and translucency content of each display pixel, thereby permitting independent modulation for each of the colors forming the display image.