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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2005

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2003
Applicants:

Eric P. Etheridge, Beaverton, OR (US);

Kevin T. Ivers, Woodland, WA (US);

Forrest A. Edwards, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Paul M. Gerlach, Beaverton, OR (US);

Inventors:

Eric P. Etheridge, Beaverton, OR (US);

Kevin T. Ivers, Woodland, WA (US);

Forrest A. Edwards, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Paul M. Gerlach, Beaverton, OR (US);

Assignee:

Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 1300 ; G06F 1500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for rasterizing a digital sample stream by producing histograms for each of a plurality of time slices forming a display frame. Time slice histograms for at least one display frame are stored in a circular memory buffer and provided to a display raster for display. The first time slice displayed optionally comprises that time slice temporally associated with a trigger condition.


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