Pixel Translations Provides Early Support for Microsoft Win32 Driver Model Still Image Architecture; Pixel Translations Delivers the Latest Technology for the Scanner Driver Market.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 1997--Pixel Translations, a division of Cornerstone Imaging, Inc., has developed preliminary versions of ISIS and TWAIN scanner drivers for Microsoft's Still Image Architecture Support in WDM (1) (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) A technology that uses multiple lasers and transmits several wavelengths of light (lambdas) simultaneously over a single optical fiber. . Scanners and digital cameras are an increasingly popular PC peripheral. Microsoft has enhanced support for these devices in the operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , and Pixel Translations has taken advantage of the new interfaces by providing new driver technology using the existing ISIS and TWAIN scanner Application Programming Interface (API). Microsoft announced the WDM STI STI systolic time intervals. at WinHEC in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden last week. Pixel Translations has developed both ISIS and TWAIN scanner drivers for Canon desktop color scanners using the new Device Driver Interface (DDI ddI and ddC: see AZT. ). Pixel Translations continues to provide the latest technology for the scanner driver market, providing connectivity for more than 150 scanning devices to applications. "Pixel's goal is to use all available standards and infrastructure to provide robust native support for scanners," said Bill Lange "Microsoft believes that scanners and digital cameras will be a growing market in the next few years," said Vicki Crudo, Technical Evangelist for Imaging at Microsoft. "Microsoft is providing basic Operating System (operating system) Basic Operating System - (BOS) An early IBM} operating system. According to folklore, BOS was the predecessor to TOS on the IBM 360 and it was IPL'd from a card reader. It may have been intended for very small 360's with no disks and limited tape drives. services to help manage these devices. Pixel has used our new architecture to build a user-mode mini-driver for the two popular scanner control API's: ISIS and TWAIN." The sample drivers developed by Pixel Translations are for the family of one-pass color (1) Refers to a color laser printer in which the paper is moved over four drums, one for each color (see CMYK). Contrast with "multi-pass color," which applies each color to the same drum and moves the paper over it four times. desktop scanners from Canon, Inc. They support black and white, grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in , and color scanning applications and have been tested with both TWAIN-based and ISIS-based applications. Canon, Inc. is a member of the TWAIN Working Group, the "guiding body" of the TWAIN specification. Microsoft's WDM Still Image Architecture Still image capture (scanners and digital cameras) is an increasingly popular PC function in the home and in the business environment. To facilitate industry growth, Microsoft has enhanced support for these devices in the next versions of Windows 95 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . The WDM Still Image Architecture is centered around a DDI that works as a conduit for communications to a particular device. The DDI provides interfaces for device enumeration, test activation, device capabilities and notification of device events, including polling for device activity. Device event polling is critical to the implementation of push model -- a method of operation that launches imaging applications based on user-initiated actions such as inserting paper into the scanner. Additional information on the new WDM STI Architecture is available on the Microsoft Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/ . About Pixel Translations, A Division of Cornerstone Pixel Translations, a division of Cornerstone Imaging, Inc., specializes in developing scanner interfaces and imaging viewing software. Cornerstone's products, including their document capture software and display subsystems, are based on open industry standards allowing simple system integration and the creation of flexible document imaging solutions. Cornerstone Imaging, Inc. is a publicly held company traded on The Nasdaq under the symbol CRNR CRNR Center for Really Neat Research (Syracuse University) . Visit the Pixel Translations web site at www.pixtran.com, the Cornerstone Corporate web site at www.corimage.com . -0- Note to Editors: Cornerstone and the Cornerstone logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cornerstone Imaging, Inc. Pixel Translations and ISIS are registered trademarks of Pixel Translations, a division of Cornerstone Imaging, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Pixel Translations Steve Francis, 408/325-3855; fax: 408/232-9292 sfrancis@pixtran.com |
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