Abstract: An object configuration module for configuring an object retrieves a view object associated with a user from a database. The view object may comprise a plurality of attributes. The object configuration module may further retrieve configuration information for the view object from the database. The configuration information may comprise properties of the attributes, and the properties may be customized by the user for the view object. The object configuration module may then set the properties for each of the attributes based on the retrieved configuration information.

Abstract: An object configuration module for configuring an object retrieves a view object associated with a user from a database. The view object may comprise a plurality of attributes. The object configuration module may further retrieve configuration information for the view object from the database. The configuration information may comprise properties of the attributes, and the properties may be customized by the user for the view object. The object configuration module may then set the properties for each of the attributes based on the retrieved configuration information.

Abstract: An ASIC-implemented wavelet transformation engine (circuit) providing a wavelet filter is described. The wavelet filter itself provides up to a 9-stage FIR (finite impulse response) filter with symmetrical coefficients. The architecture of the filter includes data inputs, a bank of shift registers (register bank), coefficient registers, a multiplier/accumulator, a sub-sampling component, and output (results) registers. The filter provides a wavelet-based compression solution that may be implemented in less-costly, page-based memory architecture (e.g., SDRAM), and does so in a manner that overcomes the inherent speed disadvantage encountered due to the horizontal-optimized access strategy employed by page-based memory architectures.

Abstract: A sliding window (block) system incorporating a methodology for providing a processor access to image data is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the system operates as follows. An image is received for processing that has a size that is too large for the processor to access directly. As a result, the sliding window system creates first, second, and third swappable windows (blocks) for accessing image data from the image; each windows is swappable so that any two are available within the memory space of the processor while a third is being loaded in a background memory. The system cycles through the three windows such that, at any given point in time, two of the three windows are affixed in the memory space of the processor as left and right adjacent windows, while the remaining or third window is being loaded in the background (e.g., in a DRAM) as a temporary shadow or background window. After the shadow window is loaded with appropriate image data, it is brought into the foreground (i.e.

Abstract: An orthogonal memory is described that provides an improved method for converting image data into a bit plane format suitable for image compression operations, using a custom dual port memory. The memory comprises a matrix of memory cells that are addressable in orthogonal directions. Upon receipt of image information for storage, the image information is stored in the memory by storing each data word of the image information in a row of the matrix. Individual bit planes of the image information may be easily retrieved from the memory by retrieving individual columns of bits from the corresponding columns of the matrix, thus providing a highly efficient method for storing and accessing image information used to create bit planes.