System Architecture Of A Multitasking Digital Image Processor

Richard A. Pendergrass

doi:10.1117/12.936996

9 January 1984 System Architecture Of A Multitasking Digital Image Processor

Richard A. Pendergrass

Proceedings Volume 0435, Architectures and Algorithms for Digital Image Processing; (1984) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936996
Event: 27th Annual Technical Symposium, 1983, San Diego, United States

Abstract

This paper acknowledges that digital image processing systems no longer are limited to pure research or prototype status, but rather are cost-effective, accurate and efficient enough to have become a category of quasi-standard instrumentation in the fields of diag-nostic medical imaging, visual inspection, remote sensing, geophysics, data encoding and decoding, and other fields. A new architectural concept incorporates the most recent ad-vances in microprocessor technology: high-speed, specialized processors, often with local intelligence; large-scale direct-mapped memory; and multiple-bus and multitasking capabilities within a stand-alone device. This architecture is described as an alternative to the traditional configurations in which digital image generators, CPU, memory, special processors and peripherals exist as "cable-length" devices. Furthermore, specialized image processing algorithms which have been developed as a direct response to specific require-ments in various fields of applications not only are highly compatible with this architecture, but have contributed significantly to its development.

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Richard A. Pendergrass "System Architecture Of A Multitasking Digital Image Processor", Proc. SPIE 0435, Architectures and Algorithms for Digital Image Processing, (9 January 1984); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936996

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