Image generation from transition-encoded font information

Details Image generation from transition-encoded font information Image generation from transition-encoded font information

1987-09-15

1989-07-11

Yusko, Donald J.

Communications: electrical

Land vehicle alarms or indicators

Internal alarm or indicator responsive to a condition of the...

340703, 340747, 340790, G09G 116

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048476072

ABSTRACT:
Transition-encoded font image information--being a form of information flagging all pixel displacement locations upon a scan line of a raster scanning image generator, nominally a laser printer, whereat a marker, nominally a laser beam, transits from marking white to marking black, and from marking black to marking white, during the generation of the one scan line of a font image--is stored in two random access memories (RAMs) each having a nominal 10,320+ address corresponding to the 1200 pixel positions per inch across an 8.6" scan line. The two RAMs are sequentially read in parallel from the start-of-scan of the scanning marker, or laser beam. The successively read transition-encoded information is used to decrement a counter upon each black-to-white transition and to increment the same counter upon each white-to-black transition. The sign bit of the count within the counter is used to control the on/off, black/white condition of the laser beam marker so that white is imaged upon the scan line when the counter is negative, and so that black is imaged when the counter is positive, at pixel rates to 35 MHz.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4233601 (1980-11-01), Hankins et al.
patent: 4656468 (1987-04-01), Takikawa et al.

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