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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:
Jan. 13, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bruce Alan Peltzer, Lexington, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395115 ; 395114 ;
Abstract
A rasterizer described in relation to a printer apparatus for defining a page bit map, for a page to be printed, in blocks wherein there are multiple blocks across the width of the page and multiple blocks down the length of the page. A programmed microprocessor executes routines to render objects defined by received or processed drawing orders into blocks of the bit map and also to store drawing orders in display lists, each being associated with a block of the bit map. The blocks are rasterized, including rendering the display lists, on a row by row basis for serialization of the rows of blocks of the bit map to a print engine for printing.