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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:
May. 31, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Billy R Masten, Shallowater, TX (US);
Lester L Hodson, McKenny, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364525 ; 25022711 ;
Abstract
An array of light sensors is integrated with a circuit to control the selection of each light selector and to digitized the amplitude of the light impinging on each sensor. Each light sensor is addressable by an external microprocessor.