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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1991
Anthony Masterson, Saratoga, CA (US);
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for converting representations of color pixels in a twenty-four bit color format to representations in a fifteen bit color format including an individual circuit for data representing each component of a color, each of the individual circuits including apparatus for selectively incrementing the value the five highest order bits of a value representing a component of a color, apparatus responsive to a value of the lowest order bits of a value representing a component for providing a signal to cause the apparatus for selectively incrementing the five highest order bits, and apparatus for selectively enabling the apparatus responsive to a value of the lowest order bits depending on a desired pattern of pixels.