Video still player with a buffered data input channel
CA 1320765 C · Owner: Eastman Kodak Company · Inventors: Compton, John Thomas
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A video still player enhances its picture display capability by buffering a vulnerable channel through which viewer instructions enter the player. Ordinary viewer instructions pass over a relatively direct input channel (7, 24, 26, 30) linking a keyboard (6) and a remote storage device (5) but, one nonetheless defined and safeguarded by a strict editing routine (10). Enhanced picture processing ordinarily entails difficult and unstructured access to the storage device (5) over this channel bypassing the "user friendly" editing routine (10) and endangering prepared programs in the remote storage device (5). By interposing an external compiler (40) into this channel when enhanced processing …
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- Granted July 27, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 27, 2010.
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