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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. 21, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anthony C Barkans, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, , US;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395143 ;
Abstract
A color/texture interpolator (CTI) for use in rendering antialiased vectors in a computer graphics system comprises: an x-stepper circuit for receiving input data defining a vector to be rendered and generating respective pixel addresses of pixels composing the vector; a filter memory for storing predetermined filter values addressed according to the vector's minor axis subpixel addresses and slope; and a color interpolator for generating a color value for each pixel composing the vector.