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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yasuhiro Ami, Hyogo, JP;
Tadahiko Komatsu, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382203 ; 395118 ; 395141 ;
Abstract
In the region filling circuit of this invention, if only the starting position and the end position of the filling region rare supplied from outside, the inversion of bits in the filling area including the starting position and the end position where the whole bits are possibly not the subject of filling can be executed by hardware independently of a CPU, thereby to shorten the filling time and consequently reducing the time when the CPU is occupied during the filling.