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US 11,270,731 B2Granted
Methods and apparatuses for compressing and decompressing drive curves
AssigneeCarl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
InventorCarsten Wehe
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for compressing drive curves for scanning devices and corresponding computer programs are provided. In this case, a drive curve is decomposed into segments. Segments which are not yet present in a library are stored in the library. Moreover, for each segment a pointer to a corresponding segment in the library is stored in a list.
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A computer-aided method for compressing drive curves for a scanning device, the method comprising:
- subdividing a drive curve of the scanning device into segments, and
- for each of the segments, performing operations comprising:
- checking whether a corresponding segment that corresponds to a respective segment of the segments is present in a library,
- when the corresponding segment that corresponds to the respective segment is not present in the library, incorporating the corresponding segment as corresponding to the respective segment into the library, and
- when the corresponding segment is present in the library, or after the corresponding segment is incorporated as corresponding to the respective segment into the library, incorporating a pointer indicating the corresponding segment in the library into a pointer list,
- wherein the scanning device is configured to be controlled by a voltage or current that is based on the drive curve.
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A computer-aided method for decompressing a drive curve for a scanning device, the method comprising:
- reading from a pointer list a pointer indicating a segment in a segment library,
- reading from the library the segment which is indicated by the pointer,
- driving a data sink based on the segment, and
- repeating, for a plurality of pointers in the pointer list, the reading from the pointer list, the reading from the library the segment, and the driving the data sink.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.