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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:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roger S. Collins, Novato, CA (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/300 ;
Abstract
An image is stored as data representing the values of non-transparent pixels, and stored instructions corresponding to some pixels, resulting in a data structure. The image may be displayed by executing two types of instructions. A first type of instruction includes a command to skip pixels in a destination image. A second type of instruction comprises a command to copy pixels from the source data to the destination image.