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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1999
Christopher B. Knell, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Joseph A. Urbano, Audubon, PA (US);
Anthony P. Lannutti, Norristown, PA (US);
Ecton, Inc., Plymouth Meeting, PA (US);
Abstract
A scan converter using a re-programmable logic device provides flexibility for converting data from an acoustic grid to a display format. A set of instruction codes is provided for implementing the flexibility. By changing the instruction codes, the scan conversion process changes. A single memory stores the incoming data where read and write operations are performed sequentially. The same memory may be used for storing the scan converted data. A field programmable gate array is preferably used to scan convert the data and is programmed differently for different modes of operation.