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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:
Mar. 10, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Chan W Kim, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignees:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395101 ; 395143 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for drawing wide lines in a raster graphics system such as a laser printing or display system utilizes a graphics processor with rectangle fill and single pixel line draw instructions. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention comprises a laser printer whose controller board main central processing unit (CPU) is a graphics processor and where the main firmware is a page description language interpreter.