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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:
Jun. 16, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark W Troeller, Visalia, CA (US);
Michael L Fuccio, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Henry P Moreton, Oakland, CA (US);
Bent Hagemark, San Francisco, CA (US);
Te-Li Lau, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382305 ; 382232 ;
Abstract
This relates to a general purpose circuit that maximizes the computing power of a Unix workstation or other computer system for processing image or other data in accordance with a selected one or ones of several alternative compression and decompression algorithms. This dynamically allocates system memory for storage of both compressed and uncompressed data and ensures adequate compression and decompression rates.