Abstract: A timing generator for an electronic image sensor includes one or more memory based tables for controlling timing events that occur within one or more different types of image sensor lines, and one or more memory based tables for controlling timing events that occur within one or more different types of image sensor frames.

Abstract: A timing generator for an electronic image sensor includes one or more memory based tables for controlling timing events that occur within one or more different types of image sensor lines, and one or more memory based tables for controlling timing events that occur within one or more different types of image sensor frames.

Abstract: An imaging device for generating an image signal includes an image sensing device for producing an image signal subject to one or more clock signals and a circuit for generating one or more of the clock signals, wherein the clock signal generating circuit is responsive to a programmable input signal for adjusting a duty cycle of at least one of the clock signals. In particular, by clocking two recirculating shift registers out of phase and parallel loading them with a programmable bit pattern to produce the output clock signals, the frequency of an input clock that is required to produce the output clock signals can be reduced by half.

Abstract: A method for organizing and addressing memory of a digital video image is provided for one and two dimensional image processing using fast page mode accessing of memory, and also for displaying composite digital video images. A DRAM (12) is mapped to address locations storing segmented memory, non-segmented memory, line pointer tables, and horizontal description tables. The lines of a digital image are organized in DRAM (12) in either segmented memory or non-segmented memory. For segmented memory, each line of the image is broken up into equal line segments of pixels. Vertically aligned columns of line segments in the image are then stored in one or more rows of the DRAM (12). For non-segmented memory, each line is stored in a format where rows of DRAM (12) each represent a line of image data.

Abstract: There is disclosed dispensing apparatus using a container for liquid, the apparatus comprising pressurizing means for aspirating liquid into the container, and for pressurizing liquid within the container to dispense the liquid. To control the ambient pressure of the atmosphere above the liquid within the container, system control means and a method of control are provided.