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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:
May. 25, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345511 ; 345 97 ;
Abstract
It can be determined without visually observing the display screen of a display device whether image conversion processing in a conversion circuit for outputting image data to the display device is being performed normally. The conversion circuit extracts data at a position designated from a host apparatus from image data output to the display device, and outputs the extracted data to the host apparatus. In the host apparatus, image data obtained upon normal conversion in the conversion circuit is prepared in advance, and this image data is collated with the data sent from the conversion circuit to determine whether the operation of the conversion circuit is normal.