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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1999
Steven J. Claiborne, Meridian, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An imaging system includes a processor and memory for storing descriptions of images. Such images include mosaic patterns that recur in a larger image. When the larger image is displayed, the mosaic patterns are tiled to fill defined areas of the larger image. If a description of a mosaic pattern in terms of graphics primitives would occupy more memory than a description of the mosaic pattern in a bit map format, then the processor converts the image description to a bit map format, stores the result in the memory, and releases the portion of the memory formerly used for storage of the graphics primitives. Otherwise, the processor delays such a conversion until the bit map is needed for tiling.