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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. 16, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiroshi Kamiyama, Osaka, JP;
Koichi Horiuchi, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395134 ; 395133 ; 395162 ; 340747 ; 340750 ;
Abstract
A clipping processor capable of setting a clipping area, which has a shape not restricted to a rectangle and is defined in the processing of transferring data on a part of a clipping area in each raster by computing data defining the clipping area by two function generation circuits or by reading the data defining the clipping area from the clipping area memory, in which data defining a part of the clipping area in each raster is preliminarily stored, every time the raster is updated.