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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5299293 | Protection arrangement for an optical transmitter/receiver device A protection arrangement protects an optical transmitter device with n optical transmit circuits or an optical receiver device with n optical receive circuits. It includes fault evaluating circuitry to detect a defective transmit/receive circuit, a spare ... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299294 | Method for compensating for font resolution conversion error The present invention provides a process for compensating for error in the position of characters in a character string that can result from printing text data intended for a printer having one resolution on a printer having equivalent fonts, but a differ... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299295 | Method and apparatus for electronically viewing, printing, and registering checks An electronic calculator for viewing, printing, and registering checks includes a base member for storing a plurality of checks, a data entry assembly for entering alpha-numeric data into the checkbook, a display screen for visually displaying the entered... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299296 | Multi-function machine with interleaved job execution A multi-function machine with interleaved job execution is disclosed. The multi-function machine performs multiple functions such as printing and digital copying. Multiple users of the machine are intermittently serviced as the machine switches from print... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299297 | Method for enhancing three-dimensional interference checking Method for use in a CAD system whereby three-dimensional interferences among space-oriented objects can be rapidly determined by storing a reduced granularity of the design space in the form of a three-dimensional matrix having elements which represent id... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299298 | Accelerated shadow testing method for three dimensional graphics rendering system Shadow testing of a two dimensional projection of a three dimensional scene is accelerated by superimposing the projection with a plurality of scan areas, then examining points, and edges of objects, falling within each scan area. Points are identified as... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299299 | Scan line full figure filling device for display units and printers A figure filling device fills a figure in memory defined by X-Y coordinate scan line by scan line with reference to a specified pattern. In the filling of a new scan line, the coordinate data for the ends of the new scan line, for the ends of the previous... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299300 | Interpolation processing of digital map imagery data Interpolation processing of digital map imagery data is carried out by prefetching full and half resolution data stored in half-resolution addresses of scene memory into a cache and accessing the cache as virtual addresses associated with the interlaced s... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299301 | Image displaying method and apparatus The king of a partial image designated on the display screen is determined and desired processing is effected at high speeds. For this purpose, the region designated on the displayed image and the attribute or identity data of that region are stored corre... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299302 | Method and apparatus for trimming b-spline descriptions of patches in a high performance three dimensional graphics system A graphics accelerator responds to commands from a computer in a graphic system by storing the definitions of nonuniform rational B-spline patches and their associated triming curves. The graphics accelerator then produces device coordinates for trimmed p... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299303 | Document processing apparatus and method for arranging each line of item information in response to instructing the arranging of the item information stored in a memory A document processing apparatus and method includes a designating device, a memory, an instruction device, an arranger, a margin setter, and an expander. The designating device designates the partition of item information. The memory stores data of a plur... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299304 | Method and apparatus for identifying multiple stage document format transformations Modern electronic office environments often include hundreds of different document format types. Format/object transformation applications exist which are capable of transforming a first selected document/object format into a second selected document/obje... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299305 | Method for generating forms and for processing and transferring data among the forms A method of generating a plurality of forms that are related with one another, and more particularly a man-machine interface at a stage of generating forms, is able to define or correct form-relation definitions at a stage of inputting data in the forms f... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299306 | Apparatus for simultaneously coupling computer video signals to a local color monitor and a distant monochrome monitor Circuitry is disclosed herein for coupling VGA analog video signals Red, Green, and Blue from a computer to a first signal conditioning circuitry including signal splitting circuitry for providing two sets of the VGA signals. One set of these signals is p... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299307 | Controls for drawing images on computer displays A computer system provides a method and an apparatus for generating and manipulating graphic objects on a computer display screen. The computer aided design and drawing system includes a graphic guide used for associating edges and points of one graphic i... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299308 | Graphic data processing apparatus for producing a tone for an edge pixel and reducing aliasing effects The tones (or densities) of individual edge pixels of vector data are determined by first dividing each edge pixel into subpixels, after which the thus-determined tones are fed to a laser printer or other output unit. Advantageously, the present invention... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299309 | Fast graphics control system capable of simultaneously storing and executing graphics commands A host computer, a graphics processor which receives and executes commands generated by the host computer, a display memory for storing display data, and a display device for displaying the display data are provided. A graphics context is also provided in... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299310 | Flexible frame buffer for raster output devices A frame buffer for constructing a full page bit map for a raster device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in lines and columns. The bits in the memory cells have a predetermined order, and the addresses associated with the memory cells have a ... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299312 | Network fault recovery by controllable switching of subnetworks A subring module for controlling the switching of a subring in and out of the main network of a token passing ring has a data detection circuit for detecting a token on the network. The subring module switches between two switch positions in response to a... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299313 | Network interface with host independent buffer management A network interface controller controls communication between a host system and a network transceiver coupled to a network comprises a memory outside of the host address space in which receive and transmit buffers are managed, host interface logic emulati... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299314 | Network adapter using status inlines and data lines for bi-directionally transferring data between lan and standard p.c. parallel port A network adapter configured to functionally connect a local area network cable to a personal computer bus via the computer's standard parallel port. The adapter includes a substantially fully enclosed housing having first and second external connectors r... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299315 | Personal computer with programmable threshold FIFO registers for data transfer This invention relates to personal computers, and more particularly to a personal computer using a FIFO registers for data transfer as illustrated by a bus master device in the form of a small computer systems interface (SCSI) controller for controlling d... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299316 | Method of automatically editing data for managing processor that carries out distributed control and a system using the same Upon receipt of a request to change a connection from a lower processing unit (24-2), a higher processing, unit (23-1) informs, a management processor (20) of the request and receives an acknowledgment signal therefrom. A disconnect signal is produced whe... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299317 | Method and apparatus for simulating an interconnection network A method and apparatus are described for simulating on one multi-stage interconnection network (MIN) the operation of a second MIN. By means of two algorithms we generate first and second vectors, I1, O1, which characterize the first... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299318 | Processor with a plurality of microprogrammed units, with anticipated execution indicators and means for executing instructions in pipeline manner A data processing system having processors with large instruction sets optimized for the execution of brief instructions. The processor (CPU) comprises a plurality of microprogrammed execution units (EAD, BDP, FPP) communicating with one another and with ... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299319 | High performance interlock collapsing SCISM ALU apparatus Three high performance implementations for an interlock collapsing ALU are presented as alternative embodiments. The critical path delay of each embodiment provides reduction in delay. For one of the implementations the delay is shown to be an equivalent ... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299320 | Program control type vector processor for executing a vector pipeline operation for a series of vector data which is in accordance with a vector pipeline In a program control type processor for executing plural instructions including a vector pipeline instruction including a data processor for executing a pipeline operation, there is provided a program controller including a program memory, a program count... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299321 | Parallel processing device to operate with parallel execute instructions A parallel processing device consists of plural processing pipelines arranged in parallel, decoders which decode processing instructions and outputs them to respective processing pipelines, and a general register in which the processing instruction to be ... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5299322 | Computer system with improved interface control of an I/O expansion unit A personal computer system capable of connecting to an expansion unit is designed to eliminate the need for a user to set the I/O address and interrupt level of an I/O controller to be connected to the expansion unit, thereby reducing the operational task... | 03/29/1994 |
