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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:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas Robson, Penfield, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ; G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382298 ; 382137 ; 382177 ; 382235 ; 382245 ; 382293 ; 382297 ; 382298 ; 382302 ; 358426 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus for the efficient processing of binary images represented as a run length encoded data stream. The system employs a CPU and cache or other memory for efficiently scaling or scaling and rotating parsed RLE date. Subsequently, the scaled RLE data can be decoded to produce a scaled image bitmap.