Pipeline structures for full-colour computer graphics.

摘要

A full-colour desk top publishing (DTP) system (100) is disclosed that includes a general purpose computer system (200), a full-colour high resolution graphics system (300) and peripheral devices such as a colour laser copier (150) including a scanner (152) and a printer (154), a workscreen display (140) and user inputs such as a digitiser (110) and a keyboard (112). The DTP system (100) can generate graphics images in bands across a page image with the images being stored in DRAM (420) as compressed images using ADCT compession and the JPEG standard. The DTP system (100) includes various pipeline structures (Figs. 3 - 6) which are used in image creation and realisation.