Abstract:
An image composing and displaying apparatus includes frame memory constituent elements of an identical structure, a video input portion, a video output portion, a controller for selecting connection of each element to the video input or output portion, and an image drawing portion for reading and writing video data from and in the memory elements. The memory elements can be used for the input and output operations and hence the size thereof can be easily expanded; moreover, the numbers of the elements respectively connected to the video input and output portions can be adaptively varied.
Abstract:
An input-output coordinate transforming method for an input-integerated display apparatus of a structure in which an input coordinate designating part is integrally combined with a screen of a display device, wherein coordinates inputted through the input coordinate designating part by an operator are subjected to coordinate transformation before being supplied to the display device so as to make an input point on the input coordinate designating means coincide with an output point on the display screen when observed by the operator. The method comprises steps of displaying sequentially a plurality of predetermined reference coordinates on the display screen and inputting through the input coordinate designating part the coordinates of points thereon designated by the operator which points correspond, respectively, to the reference coordinate points, arithmetically determining constants of predetermined coordinate transformation expressions representing correspondence between the input coordinates and the output coordinates on the basis of the plurality of the reference coordinates and the plurality of the corresponding input coordinates, and transforming the input coordinates supplied by the input coordinate designating part into output coordinates to be supplied to the display device in accordance with the coordinate transformation expressions containing the constants determined.
Abstract:
A nonvolatile memory stores therein a plurality of partitioned translation tables which are created by partitioning a logical-to-physical address translation table in a page unit. A RAM stores therein a logical-to-physical address translation table cache for storing at least the one or more partitioned translation tables, a translation-table management table for managing the partitioned translation tables, and a cache management table for managing the logical-to-physical address translation table cache. The translation-table management table includes a cache presence-or-absence flag and a cache entry number, the cache presence-or-absence flag being used for indicating that the partitioned translation tables are stored into the logical-to-physical address translation table cache, the cache entry number being used for indicating storage destinations of the partitioned translation tables in the logical-to-physical address translation table cache. Reading/writing processings of information in the logical-to-physical address translation table between the nonvolatile memory and the RAM are performed in the page unit.
Abstract:
A print data processing apparatus process variable print data includes a cache unit, a determination unit, a determining unit, and a writing unit. The cache unit caches image data generated according to a drawing command included in the variable print data as cache data in a cache memory. The determination unit determines whether it is necessary to write the cache data in a secondary storage medium that is different from the cache memory. The determining unit determines cache data to be written in the secondary storage medium, in response to the determination unit determining that it is necessary to write the cache data in the secondary storage medium, based on a number of pages to be processed before each cache data cached in the cache memory is used next. The writing unit writes the cache data determined by the determining unit in the secondary storage medium.
Abstract:
There is disposed a middle comprising a metallic inner middle (20) in which a movement (30) is housed, and a metallic outer middle (21) covering at least a part of the inner middle, and an elastic shock absorber (35) disposed between the inner middle and the outer middle.
Abstract:
In logical compound of inter-subblock paths, circuits including all inter-subblock paths are generated. Logical compound is conducted for the generated circuits to achieve logical compound of the inter-subblock paths. By treating inter-subblock paths as intra-subblock paths, no input/output delay restriction is required for the logical compound of inter-subblock paths. This makes it possible to fully use performance of the logical compound tool, and hence the inter-subblock paths can be optimized through one operation of the processing.
Abstract:
An image composing and displaying apparatus includes frame memory constituent elements of an identical structure, a video input section, a video output section, a controller for selecting connection of each element to the video input or output section, and an image drawing section for reading and writing video data from and in the elements. The memory elements can be used for the input and output operations and hence the size thereof can be easily expanded; moreover the numbers of the elements respectively connected to the video input and output sections can be adaptively varied.
Abstract:
A three-dimensional graphic display apparatus performs hidden surface removal and color blending. Particularly, the graphic display apparatus includes a configuration of a special purpose memory for graphics, thereby forming a configuration of a graphic display apparatus using the special purpose memory. The special purpose memory for graphics includes a memory cell holding intensity information (RGB) and window information about each pixel, an XY coordinate converter converting XY coordinates of a pixel to be written to a memory address, an intensity blending processor, and hidden-surface removal and window comparators, all of which are formed on the same chip.
Abstract:
The display system and a thick line display method realizes a high-speed and accurate display of a thick line without any disorder even if a display range is to be processed by two or more clip frames when the thick line is to be displayed by parallel setting a reference line component and at least one additional line component which is obtained by parallel moving the reference line component in a display system such as an information processing unit that displays graphs. For this purpose, a clip frame showing a display range is expanded by a predetermined width equal to or larger than the total width of additional line components to be set at least at one side of the reference line component and the additional line component is obtained in that expanded frame, and the line component within the clip frame of the additional line component and the reference line component within the clip frame are displayed.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a storage device using non-volatile semiconductor memory that achieves high performance and long life for the device. When managing the non-volatile semiconductor memory (2), physical blocks are classified into three types: scratch blocks (22), data blocks (23), and erased blocks (24). Data writing from a host device (3) is performed on the scratch blocks. When the number of empty pages within a scratch block becomes less than a predetermined number or no longer exists, the block is treated thereafter as a data block, and one of the erased blocks is newly assigned as a scratch block. If there are insufficient erased blocks, a block with relatively less valid data is selected from among the data blocks. After copying all valid data included in the block to a scratch block, the block is erased, and thus an erased block is acquired.