Communications: electrical – Land vehicle alarms or indicators – Internal alarm or indicator responsive to a condition of the...
Patent
1987-11-04
1990-02-13
Moore, David K.
Communications: electrical
Land vehicle alarms or indicators
Internal alarm or indicator responsive to a condition of the...
340703, 340744, 364522, G09G 100
Patent
active
049010646
ABSTRACT:
A system is provided for application of a lighting model to a rasterized stream of pixels. The system typically includes a series of circuits, each for applying a lighting model to a single pixel. Each chip typically includes some memory sources for storing the lighting model, an input section connected to receive data indicative of the normal vector, Z depth, and material characteristics of the object represented by the pixel to be colored. A special purpose processor connected to the input then applies the lighting model to the pixel and supplies color value of the pixel as an output signal.
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Brier Jeffery A.
Carroll David H.
Colwell Robert C.
Haughey Paul C.
Moore David K.
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