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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:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 ;
Abstract
A memory device for storing data of the present invention comprises memory means having a plurality of memory banks, write selecting means for selecting 1 memory bank from among the plurality of memory banks and for writing the data therein, read out selecting means for selecting other two or more memory banks from among the plurality of memory banks and for reading out the data therefrom, and data selecting means for selecting the data generated from the read out selecting means. An image data consisting of a desired number of pixels in the horizontal direction and vertical direction respectively is obtained without using a line memory for temporarily storing the image data of required number of lines.