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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:
Apr. 12, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas N Berarducci, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395425 ; 364D / ;
Abstract
An processing system having a disk storage unit which acts as physical RAM storage. A disk controller, disk and small RAM unit are controlled by a separate CPU and MMU using a virtual memory scheme. This assembly is connected to a set of processing nodes by way of a bus, such that each of the nodes can access the memory directly through the MMU as virtual memory. The CPU controls the transfer of data to and from the disk as it is requested from the nodes. The nodes may then proceed to process the image data without any interaction with the host system.