What is claimed is as follows:
1. A cable routing clip for mounting on a wall comprising:
a crosspiece having two opposite sides;
a first clip arm, and a second clip arm extending from one side of the crosspiece, the crosspiece and the first and second clip arms cooperating to define a slot for receiving cables;
a first mounting tab and a second mounting tab extending from the side of the crosspiece opposite the first and second clip arms, the first and second mounting tabs being spaced apart;
an outer surface of the first clip arm and an outer surface of the first mounting tab linearly arranged, and an outer surface of the second clip arm and an outer surface of the second mounting tab linearly arranged, and
the first and second mounting tabs including a sloped face and a locking notch, the sloped face and locking notch of the first mounting tab opposing the sloped face and locking notch of the second mounting tab, and the first and second mounting tabs being sized and shaped for insertion into a first generally rectangular mounting slot and a second generally rectangular mounting slot, respectively, in the wall.
2. The cable routing clip of claim 1, wherein a gate is mounted to a distal end of the first clip arm by a living hinge, the gate movable about the living hinge between an open position allowing access into the slot and a closed position where the gate blocks access to the slot.
3. The cable routing clip of claim 2, wherein a distal end of the second clip arm includes a catch and the gate includes a latch opposite the living hinge which releasably engages the catch to hold the gate in the closed position.
4. The cable routing clip of claim 3, wherein latch includes a finger tab and an extension, the catch includes a recess on the outer surface of the second clip arm to receive the extension of the latch, the recess of the catch including a first ramped surface which is angled with respect to the outer surface of the clip arm and the extension of the latch including a second ramped surface angled similarly to the first ramped surface when the gate is in the closed position, the first and second ramped surfaces angled so that movement of the gate toward the open position from the closed position without releasing the latch from the catch will push the extension of the latch deeper into the recess of the catch.
5. The cable routing clip of claim 4, wherein the distal end of the second clip arm includes an extension and the gate adjacent the latch includes a recess to receive the extension of the clip arm when the gate is in the closed position, the recess of the gate including a third ramped surface angled with respect to an inner surface of the gate, and the extension of the second clip arm including a fourth ramped surface angled similarly to the third ramped surface when the gate is in the closed position, the third and fourth ramped surfaces angled to that displacement of the gate toward the slot when the gate is in the closed position will push the distal end of the second clip arm toward the latch of the gate.
6. A cable routing clip comprising:
a crosspiece having two opposite sides;
a first clip arm, and a second clip arm extending from one side of the crosspiece, the crosspiece and the first and second clip arms cooperating to define a slot for receiving cables;
a first mounting tab and a second mounting tab extending from the side of the crosspiece opposite the first and second clip arms, the first and second mounting tabs being spaced apart;
a gate hingedly attached to a distal end of the first clip arm and movable to a closed position where a catch on a distal end of the second clip arm releasably engages a latch on the gate; and
the first and second mounting tabs including a sloped face and a locking notch, the sloped face and locking notch of the first mounting tab opposing the sloped face and locking notch of the second mounting tab, and the first and second mounting tabs being sized and shaped for insertion into a first generally rectangular mounting slot and a second generally rectangular mounting slot, respectively, in the wall.
7. The cable routing clip of claim 6, wherein the gate is mounted to the distal end of the first clip arm by a living hinge.
8. The cable routing clip of claim 6, wherein a distal end of the second clip arm includes a catch and the gate includes a latch opposite the living hinge which releasably engages the catch to hold the gate in the closed position.
9. The cable routing clip of claim 7, wherein latch includes a finger tab and an extension, the catch includes a recess on the outer surface of the second clip arm to receive the extension of the latch, the recess of the catch including a first ramped surface which is angled with respect to the outer surface of the clip arm and the extension of the latch including a second ramped surface angled similarly to the first ramped surface when the gate is in the closed position, the first and second ramped surfaces angled so that movement of the gate toward the open position from the closed position without releasing the latch from the catch will push the extension of the latch deeper into the recess of the catch.
10. The cable routing clip of claim 9, wherein the distal end of the second clip arm includes an extension and the gate adjacent the latch includes a recess to receive the extension of the clip arm when the gate is in the closed position, the recess of the gate including a third ramped surface angled with respect to an inner surface of the gate, and the extension of the second clip arm including a fourth ramped surface angled similarly to the third ramped surface when the gate is in the closed position, the third and fourth ramped surfaces angled to that displacement of the gate toward the slot when the gate is in the closed position will push the distal end of the second clip arm toward the latch of the gate.
11. The cable routing clip of claim 6, wherein the locking notches of the first and second mounting tabs are offset from the side of the crosspiece by a distance and the first and second mounting tabs of the cable routing clip are inserted into first and second generally rectangular mounting slots, respectively, in a wall having a thickness generally equal to the distance of offset.
12. The cable routing clip of claim 6, wherein the locking notches of the first and second mounting tabs are offset from the side of the crosspiece by a distance and the first and second mounting tabs of the cable routing clip are inserted into first and second generally rectangular mounting slots, respectively, in a wall having a thickness less than the distance of offset, and the wall includes a dimple between the generally rectangular mounting slots which protrudes from the wall, the dimple protruding beyond the wall a distance which added to the thickness is generally equal to the distance of offset of the.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
a wavelet transform unit which applies filtering to each of one or more images having a first size into which an original image is divided, thereby producing wavelet coefficients;
a quantization unit which scans and quantizes the wavelet coefficients to produce quantization coefficients; and
a coding unit which scans and encodes the quantization coefficients, wherein a number of pixels in one line for said filtering and a number of pixels in one line scanned for the quantization and the encoding are selectively changed, thereby encoding an image having a second size relatively small and of frequent use without division thereof into the one or more images having the first size.
2. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the number of pixels in one line for said filtering and the number of pixels in one line scanned for the quantization and the encoding are changed so as to process an image having a third size whose horizontal and vertical lengths are a multiple of 2n (n: positive integer) corresponding to a maximum level of a multi-resolution analysis of said wavelet transform, whereby divided portions of the original image having the first size and fully included in the original image are processed as the one or more images having the first size, and at least one remaining portion of the original image is processed as an image having the third size.
3. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
an image memory of a first size;
an address generation unit which receives information indicative of an image size, and generates addresses for accessing said image memory according to the information; and
a transform unit which performs orthogonal transform on an image retrieved from said image memory at the addresses generated by said address generation unit, wherein said address generation unit generates addresses for accessing a memory area having the first size if said image memory stores therein an image having a first size, and generates addresses for accessing a memory area having a second size if said image memory stores therein an image having a second size.
4. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:
a quantization unit which quantizes the image transformed by the orthogonal transform by said transform unit; and
a coding unit which encodes the image quantized by said quantization unit.
5. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein said transform unit performs a wavelet transform as the orthogonal transform.
6. A method of processing an image, comprising the steps of:
providing an address generation unit which receives information indicative of an image size, and generates addresses for accessing an image memory according to the information;
dividing an original image into one or more sub-regions having a predetermined size and one or more remaining regions;
supplying the one or more sub-regions having the predetermined size to the image memory, and supplying information indicative of the predetermined size to the address generation unit;
retrieving image data from the image memory by using addresses generated by the address generation unit in such a manner as to match the predetermined size, and performing orthogonal transform on the retrieved image data;
supplying the one or more remaining regions to the image memory, and supplying information indicative of size of the one or more remaining regions to the address generation unit; and
retrieving image data from the image memory by using addresses generated by the address generation unit in such a manner as to match the size of the one or more remaining regions, and performing orthogonal transform on the retrieved image data.
7. The method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising the steps of:
quantizing the one or more sub-regions and the one or more remaining regions after the orthogonal transform; and
encoding the one or more sub-regions and the one or more remaining regions after the quantization.
8. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the orthogonal transform is a wavelet transform.
9. The method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising the steps of:
setting the one or more sub-regions having the predetermined size such that each of the one or more sub-regions has vertical and horizontal lengths that are 2n (n: positive integer) pixels; and
setting the one or more sub-regions having the predetermined size such that each of the one or more sub-regions has vertical and horizontal lengths that are a multiple of 2m (m: positive integer) pixels.