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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. 14, 1991
Filed:
May. 05, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Christopher W Thomson, Islington, CA;
Assignee:
Delphax Systems, Randolph, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364518 ; 364519 ; 364521 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for converting data representative of a plurality of cells arranged independently of one another on a page into data is raster scan order for subsequent printing. Cell data for individual cells is fetched in an order dependent on the line of raster scan where the cell first occurs and the bit position for the first bit representing the cell. This cell data is compared with earlier fetched cells to build up raster scan lines from cells occuring in the lines.