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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:
Feb. 19, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/312 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/312 ;
Abstract
The present invention discloses an image processor ( ) for executing a computer instruction set ( ) in the form of an opcode ( ), at least one operand ( ) which is, or indicates the location of data to be processed. The data to be processed consists of a variable length stream of data and each instruction includes a length field ( ) containing data specifying the number of items of data to be processed or, if that number exceeds the size of the length field, a predetermined location of a previously allocated storage area at which that number is stored.