Compressed image system for texture patterns
US5327509A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 27, 1992 |
| Grant date | Jul 5, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 27, 2012 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T15/04
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The disclosure describes the use of an image generator connected to receive at least two, and preferably three, base colors that have been previously compressed using two blend factors to interpolate degrees of color intensity in a texture image. A decoder circuit to restore the compressed image color data for each data path from memory uses a color blender circuit to restore the color components from data from each path to produce that color at an output terminal. A provision is described for including translucency also.
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