Patents by Inventor Taggart H. Robertson

Taggart H. Robertson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4878182
    Abstract: A system for generating multiple pixels in a single machine cycle employs a plurality of parallel vector generators. Each of the parallel generators is initialized with an error term which is calcualted in accordance with Bresenham's algorithm. The signs of these error terms are then used to determine the region within the first octant of the coordinate system which contains the function for which the pixels are to be generated. The region data, in turn, determine two selectable values for an increment which is to be added to a running error term for each of the parallel generators as multiple pixels are simultaneously generated. The choice of the two possible values to be added to the error term is dependent upon the sign of the error term itself. The sign of the running error term for each vector generator is utilized to form a sequence of binary data which represents the incremental changes in the pixel positions as the pixels are being generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Aranda, Timothy J. Ebbers, Yoshio Iida, Terence W. Lindgren, Taggart H. Robertson