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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1997
Robert C Hinz, West Linn, OR (US);
Steven J Olson, Portland, OR (US);
Kurt M Anderson, Molalla, OR (US);
Cognex Corporation, Natick, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides methods and systems for forming and image from a stream of non-interleaved image date, e.g., a stream of non-contiguous rows of pixels. Such a system includes a memory, in which the image is to be formed (and stored), and a controller, for initiating memory transfers that move rows of pixels from the stream to their (the rows') respective locations in memory. The controller initiates those transfers such that (i) the rows of pixels are transferred to the memory in the order in which they are received from the stream, and (ii) each row of pixels is transferred directly to the location in memory corresponding to that row's respective position in the image.