Video image field cut processing
CA 1197004 A · Owner: International Business Machines Corporation · Inventors: Fryer, George B.; Stepneski, David A.
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Abstract Of The Disclosure Video image data received from an optical document reading system is processed by a dynamic field cut technique which utilizes the scan line as its elemental unit of data in controlling the concurrent extraction and processing of the individual fields. The field cut technique of the present invention has a chain of control instructions with a series of pointers being utilized to control the sequential processing of the control instructions and permit bypassing the control instructions for fields for which processing has been completed. By this arrangement, the number of operations necessary to separately act on a plurality independently defined fields is reduced.
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- Granted November 19, 1985. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 19, 2002.
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