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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 16, 1997
Tsuyoshi Muramatsu, Tenri, JP;
Ryuji Miyama, Tenri, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A method and device for configuring data packets for a data driven processor, the data driven information processor having a data packet generator that generates the data packets, and a data flow ring architecture for operating (according to data flow computational protocol) upon data packets received from the data packet generator. The data packet generator configures each data packet to include a multi-attribute tag. The multi-attribute tag has a first component and a second component. The first component identifies one of a plurality of data sets to which data contained in the data packet belongs. The second component uniquely identifies the data within the particular data set identified by the first component contained in the data packet. Where the data driven information processor is doing image processing: the first component of the multi-attribute tag is the field/image number; and the second component of the multi-attribute tag is the location of a pixel in the field/image. The second component can be represented in two parts, the first part being the line of the image in which the pixel is located and the second part being the column in which the pixel is located.