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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. 24, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Seiko Ltd., Chiyoda, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382-1 ; 382 21 ; 382 22 ;
Abstract
A figure retrieval method for storing memory addresses for figure data in an address data table which corresponds to positional coordinates of a multi-dimensional array. When retrieving end points, or node points, other points on a line and points on a surface, these points constituting the figure data, memory addresses for figure data for an object to be retrieved are stored in the address data table and then retrieved. Flags indicative of the kind of the constituent points are also stored in the address data table in combination with the memory addresses and are used for figure retrieval.