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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6518802 | Circuits and methods for generating an accurate digital representation of a sinusoidal wave A numerically controlled oscillator that generates an accurate digital representation of a repeating waveform such as a sinusoidal wave. Based on the desired output frequency, multiple samples are calculated from multiple cycles of the repeating waveform.... | 02/11/2003 |
| 5519647 | Apparatus for and method of generating an approximation function An apparatus (5) for generating an approximation function based on first pairs ((X1, Y1) to (X6, Y6)) of values associating a dependent variable (Y1 to Y6) with an independent variable (X | 05/21/1996 |
| 5495160 | Digital sine wave generator and motor controller Digital sinusoidal waves are generated using a method based on an error measuring algorithm used to generate a synthesized circle. X and Y waves are generated step-wise to follow the contour of a reference circle in the x-y plane by computing the mean squ... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5341317 | Curvilinear approximation method A method for approximately representing a first curve having anchor points and a control point, wherein the first curve is subdivided into a plurality of segments and an approximate curve is constructed by joining the points corresponding to the ends of t... | 08/23/1994 |
| 4999797 | Method of and device for circle generation A machine-implemented circle-generation method calculates a sequence of coordinates (xn, yn) of points approximating a circle or circular arc according to the iterative formula: ##EQU1## or an approximation thereto. This formula... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4866631 | Method for generating offset surface data A method for generating offset surface data representing a tool path of a tool traversing patches which are mutually adjoining at boundary lines where there is no continuity of the osculating planes. The offset surface data is interpolated for the parts o... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4835722 | Curve generation in a display system A curve generator for a display system with an arc generator has for generating an arc (10) of a circle (14) from data defining the locations of two end points P1 and P3 and an intermediate point P2 on the arc. The arc gen... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4789954 | Method for generating quadratic curve signal Assuming that a given equation representing a quadratic curve is: the method for generating quadratic curve signals repeatedly selects a point close to F (x, y)=0 in only one of either the region of F (x,y)ࣙ0 or the region of F (x,y) | 12/06/1988 |
| 4736201 | High speed image drawing method and apparatus therefor The tangent of the tangential line of an image to be drawn at each point in an orthogonal X-Y coordinate system is classified into two angle regions, a first angle region, where a condition -1ࣘ | 04/05/1988 |
| 4692887 | Circle and circular arc generator A circle and circular arc generator has a digital differential analyzer (DDA) for receiving coordinates on and a radius of a circle having its center at a specific point and for generating x and y coordinates on a circle having its center at the origin. T... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4604695 | Nibble and word addressable memory arrangement Apparatus is provided for addressing a memory by word and by one of a number of nibbles within a word, with the ability to increment or decrement nibble and word addresses and thereby access adjacent nibbles and words without having to generate new nibble... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4493032 | Method and apparatus for positioning using circular interpolation A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing very precise incremental motion of a numerically controlled machine tool, or other similarly controlled object, along a circularly arced path. For a mutually perpendicular X and Y coordinate system, X and... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4484298 | Method and device for generation of quadratic curve signal A method and system for generation of a quadratic curve signal expressed by f(x, y)=0 nonparametrically on coordinates X, Y, wherein, when linear micro-coefficients in the directions x, y are points (x, y) are given as fx, fy, respectively, the signs of f... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4371933 | Bi-directional display of circular arcs An improved method and apparatus are disclosed for generating circular arcs of any arc length greater than zero up to and including a full circle of 360 degrees. The method and apparatus can locate nonsymmetrical closest points for noninteger radius and a... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4314351 | Curve-generating device for visual display of symbols on a cathode-ray screen The curve-generating device serves in particular to produce signals relating to a circular line from simple algorithms. The device comprises means for computing a parameter ƊL defined by ##EQU1## where U is an elementary vector, θ is the angle at t... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4272808 | Digital graphics generation system A real time digital graphics display system is disclosed for generating circles, arcs and vectors. The system utilizes Taylor's formula to determine the successive coordinates of the points along the image of the character displayed. The system is able to... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4240034 | Digital frequency synthesizer A digital frequency synthesizer is disclosed wherein a series of binary level signals are produced, the level of such signals changing at a frequency related to a selected frequency f. The synthesizer includes a counter which counts clock pulses fed there... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4135424 | Variable function generator A fully digitalized function-of-time generator suitable for use as a tone envelope generator in a digital electronic musical instrument, comprising: a clock pulse generator for generating a clock pulse at a selectable rate; a gate enabled at each arrival ... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4115863 | Digital stroke display with vector, circle and character generation capability The digital stroke display generates vectors by applying clock pulses to an up/down counter which through a digital-to-analog converter provides the deflection voltage for one of the display X or Y axes. The clock pulses are applied through a gate to a se... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4023027 | Circle/graphics CRT deflection generation using digital techniques A system for generating respective X and Y beam deflection command signals as respective running binary counts in X and Y deflection counters utilizing digital computations based on the straight line expressions Y=X tan , where is the line ... | 05/10/1977 |
