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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:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ralph E Payne, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358-114 ; 358-101 ; 358-112 ; 358-117 ; 358448 ; 358453 ; 345502 ; 345505 ; 712 39 ;
Abstract
A processing unit for a printer system. The processing unit is comprised of a master processor and multiple parallel processors. The master processor builds the display list from a page description program or from some other graphics programming. It partitions the display list into sublists and distributes the sublists to the parallel processors. The parallel processors interpret the sublists, thereby rendering the image as bitmapped data.