Printer image control generator
CA 1317684 C · Owner: International Business Machines Corporation · Inventors: Dominguez, Ruben Jr.; Hanna, Stephen D.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Abstract of the Disclosure, Clipping individual rows or columns of pels from patterns stored as pels is accomplished by passing quads of pels through a clipper before rotation is effected. Integral numbers of quads are clipped by skipping their address when reading from the pattern store or inhibiting their transfer. This permits more detailed pages to be composed for printing. BO988002
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
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- Granted May 11, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 11, 2010.
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