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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5572657 | Methods and apparatus for graphics block movement in a multi-tasking windows system Graphics window systems which utilize graphics pipelines and graphics pipeline bypass buses. Hardware solutions for window relative rendering of graphics primitives, block moving of graphics primitives, transfer of large data blocks, and elimination of pi... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5564009 | Methods and apparatus for burst data block movement in a multi-tasking windows system Graphics window systems which utilize graphics pipelines and graphics pipeline bypass buses. Hardware solutions for window relative rendering of graphics primitives, block moving of graphics primitives, transfer of large data blocks, and elimination of pi... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5457482 | Method and apparatus for utilizing off-screen memory as a simultaneously displayable channel A method and apparatus for the storage and retrieval of pixel information, including first and second data portions, is shown to include first and second memory devices each having a random access memory and a shift register, wherein the random access mem... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5448264 | Method and apparatus for separate window clipping and display mode planes in a graphics frame buffer A method and apparatus for use in a computer graphics system for the storage and retrieval of pixel information is described. The computer graphics system includes a screen display. The method and apparatus are implemented in a frame buffer, wherein the f... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5420980 | Methods and apparatus for graphics pipeline relative addressing in a multi-tasking windows system Graphics window systems which utilize graphics pipelines and graphics pipeline bypass buses. Hardware solutions for window relative rendering of graphics primitives, block moving of graphics primitives, transfer of large data blocks, and elimination of pi... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5251296 | Methods and apparatus for generating arbitrarily addressed, arbitrarily shaped tiles in computer graphics systems Methods and apparatus for rendering graphics primitives to display devices in a computer graphics frame buffer system are disclosed. The methods provide an array of addressable video random access memory (VRAM) chips associated to form the graphics frame ... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5233689 | Methods and apparatus for maximizing column address coherency for serial and random port accesses to a dual port RAM array Methods and apparatus for maximizing column address coherency for serial and parallel port accesses to a dual port frame buffer. Performance of the serial port of the frame buffer is greatly improved by separating the page boundaries in the horizontal dir... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5224210 | Method and apparatus for graphics pipeline context switching in a multi-tasking windows system Graphics window systems which utilize graphics pipelines and graphics pipeline bypass buses. Hardware solutions for window relative rendering of graphics primitives, block moving of graphics primitives, transfer of large data blocks, and elimination of pi... | 06/29/1993 |
