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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:
Aug. 17, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1990
Jerome R Cox, Jr, St. Louis, MO (US);
Stephen M Moore, St. Louis, MO (US);
Washington University, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A display device having 8-bit architecture includes a decoder for decoding 8-bit bytes of data representative of pixel intensities of 12 bits sufficiently fast to enable the display in flicker-free manner of an image having a frame of 1024.times.1024 pixels. The decoder is hardware based and consists of electronic circuitry without the use of programmed devices incorporating software logic. The decoder may be utilized in new display devices or used to retrofit existing 8-bit architecture display devices. An encoder is also disclosed for encoding 12-bit pixel data into 8-bit data for storage or transmission to the display device.