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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5553217 | Document layout using tiling A method and apparatus for formatting a document and creating a best document layout from an input list of picture and text objects is disclosed. The method includes calculating multiple document layouts while maintaining the correct reading order of the ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5539890 | Microprocessor interface apparatus having a boot address relocator, a request pipeline, a prefetch queue, and an interrupt filter A processor interface chip and a maintenance diagnostic chip are provided coupled with two microprocessors designed to be run in tandem. The processor interface chip includes logic for interfacing between the microprocessors and a main memory, logic for p... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5522056 | Cache memory with plurality of congruence sets and sense amplifiers shared among the congruence sets A cache memory with a data memory divided into a plurality of word arrays, each of which is selectable by a word select indicator. Each word array is further divided into a plurality of bit arrays, each of which correspond to a bit of a word, and include ... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5488700 | Image rendering system with local, adaptive estimation of incident diffuse energy A method for coloring pixels of a pixelated display to present a simulated image of a view of objects illuminated by light from light sources and light reflected off the objects is used in an apparatus for coloring pixels to create an image. According to ... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5485393 | Method and apparatus for measuring electrical parameters using a differentiating current sensor and a digital integrator A digital current meter, usable either alone or in combination with a voltage meter, is disclosed. The current meter includes a current sensor which outputs the time derivative of the current flowing through the load being measured. The differentiated cur... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5471207 | Compression of palettized images and binarization for bitwise coding of M-ary alphabets therefor The invention provides an improved method and apparatus for compression of palettized images. Input symbols in an M-ary alphabet are binarized based on a context model of the input data, where the binarization is selected to provide good compression by a ... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5465353 | Image matching and retrieval by multi-access redundant hashing An improved document matching and retrieval system is disclosed where an input document is matched against a database of documents, using a descriptor database which lists descriptors and points to a list of documents containing features from which the de... | 11/07/1995 |
