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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110025696 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY ADDING AND REMOVING DISPLAY MODES COORDINATED ACROSS MULTIPLE GRAPHCIS PROCESSING UNITS The present invention provides a method and system for coordinating graphics processing units in a single computing system. A method is disclosed which allows for the construction of a list of shared display modes that may be employed by both of the graphics processing ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110002098 | CIRCUIT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HEAT DISSIPATION FOR MULTIPLE UNITS ON A CIRCUIT BOARD A circuit for controlling heat dissipation means for multiple units on a circuit board may comprise a first logical OR operation unit connected to said multiple units. The first logical OR operation unit is for performing a logical OR operation on a first set of signals... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100318750 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING MEMORY REQUESTS A system for selecting memory requests. The system includes arbiters and a time ordered list scheduler. Each arbiter selects a memory request for transmission from at least one client. The scheduler is operable to receive and store memory requests from the arbiters and ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318312 | SIMPLIFYING DETERMINATION OF WHETHER A DISPLAY CONTROLLER PROVIDES VIDEO OUTPUT WITH DESIRED QUALITY An aspect of the present invention enables a tester (person) to specify multiple test cases of interest to test a display controller, and executes the test cases in a batch mode to cause the display controller to generate corresponding video output. The tester is provid... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100315427 | MULTIPLE GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT DISPLAY SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD Systems and methods for utilizing multiple graphics processing units for controlling presentations on a display are presented. In one embodiment, a dual graphics processing system includes a first graphics processing unit for processing graphics information; a second gr... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100309918 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORDERING POSTED PACKETS AND NON-POSTED PACKETS TRANSFER A system for ordering packets. The system includes a first memory, e.g., FIFO, storing transition information for posted packets, e.g., 1 when a posted packet transitions from a non-posted packet and 0 otherwise. A second memory stores transition information for non-pos... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100309197 | INTERACTION OF STEREOSCOPIC OBJECTS WITH PHYSICAL OBJECTS IN VIEWING AREA Changing the path of a virtual object displayed in a stereographic form when a physical object is encountered in the path of the virtual object. Sensors may be used to identify the location of physical objects present in an area of interest (in the viewing area), and th... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100303265 | ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE IN AUDIO-VISUAL SYSTEMS EMPLOYING STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY AND DIRECTIONAL AUDIO An audio-visual system providing a directional audio stream corresponding to an element in a same direction the element is rendered in a stereoscopic display. As a result, the audio stream may be audible only in portion of an area in the direction the element is rendere... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100295155 | TECHNIQUES FOR CAPACITIVELY COUPLING SIGNALS WITH AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT System and apparatus for capacitively coupling signals with an integrated circuit (IC) are described. Capacitive elements disposed with a transmitting IC effectively function as AC coupling capacitors for a PCIe, DisplayPort™ or other interconnect linking the transmit... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100266201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING IMAGE CORRECTION A system and method for correcting image data. Embodiments of the present invention provide image correction to overcome various lens effects, optical crosstalk, and electrical crosstalk. In one embodiment, the method includes accessing, within an electronic system, a p... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265358 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE CORRECTION A system and method for correcting image data. Embodiments of the present invention provide calibration and image correction to overcome various lens effects including lens shading and lens imperfections. In one embodiment, the correction of image data is performed via ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100262415 | METHOD OF VERIFYING THE PERFORMANCE MODEL OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A method of verifying a performance model of an integrated circuit is provided. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining statistical request numbers and corresponding latency values of memory access requests; developing functions of latency value based on the... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100259536 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEADLOCK-FREE PIPELINING A system and method for facilitating increased graphics processing without deadlock. Embodiments of the present invention provide storage for execution unit pipeline results (e.g., texture pipeline results). The storage allows increased processing of multiple threads as... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100245356 | Techniques for Displaying a Selection Marquee in Stereographic Content A technique for stereographic display of a selection marquee in a scene includes receiving the selection marquee in a two-dimensional viewpoint at a near plane of the scene. A selection volume is generated from which the fragments of a scene associated with the selectio... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100238587 | PORTABLE DEVICE WITH FREEFALL DETECTION OR AUDIO PROCESSING SUBSYSTEM AND FREEFALL DETECTION OR AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD In a class of embodiments, a method and apparatus for detecting freefall of a disk device (thereby predicting that the disk device will likely suffer imminent physical impact) and typically also preventing damage that a disk drive of the device would otherwise suffer if... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100220102 | MULTIPLE GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT SYSTEM AND METHOD Systems and methods for utilizing multiple graphics processing units for controlling presentations on a display are presented. In one embodiment, a dual graphics processing system includes a first graphics processing unit for processing graphics information; a second gr... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220101 | MULTIPLE GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT SYSTEM AND METHOD Systems and methods for utilizing multiple graphics processing units for controlling presentations on a display are presented. In one embodiment, a dual graphics processing system includes a first graphics processing unit for processing graphics information; a second gr... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100211933 | DEBUGGING AND PERFOMANCE ANALYSIS OF APPLICATIONS While an application is still running and using a resource that the application has already allocated, real-time capture is used to allow for a minimal overhead, quick turnaround solution for debugging and performance analysis. Application programming interface intercep... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100195730 | DUAL STAGE INTRA-PREDICTION VIDEO ENCODING SYSTEM AND METHOD Multi-level prediction mode encoding type decision methods and systems are presented. In one embodiment, an indication of a prediction mode level is received and encoding is performed in accordance with said prediction mode level. The indication of said prediction mode ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100189174 | ENCODING VIDEO FRAMES IN A VIDEO ENCODER An encoder provided according to an aspect of the present invention uses an approach which seeks to limit the number of bits in each of a sequence of video frames to a same upper limit. By providing such a restriction, additional budget (i.e., more number of bits that c... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100173670 | USING A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT TO CORRECT VIDEO AND AUDIO DATA Described is a device (e.g., a cell phone incorporating a digital camera) that incorporates a graphics processing unit (GPU) to process image data in order to increase the quality of a rendered image. The processing power provided by a GPU means that, for example, an un... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100173669 | USING A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT TO CORRECT VIDEO AND AUDIO DATA Described is a device (e.g., a cell phone incorporating a digital camera) that incorporates a graphics processing unit (GPU) to process image data in order to increase the quality of a rendered image. The processing power provided by a GPU means that, for example, an un... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100171845 | USING A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT TO CORRECT VIDEO AND AUDIO DATA Described is a device (e.g., a cell phone incorporating a digital camera) that incorporates a graphics processing unit (GPU) to process image data in order to increase the quality of a rendered image. The processing power provided by a GPU means that, for example, an un... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100169654 | METHOD FOR AUTHOR VERIFICATION AND SOFTWARE AUTHORIZATION Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a computer-implemented method for author verification and authorization of object code. In one embodiment, program object code is linked with a plurality of data blocks to create linked object code and a MAP file. The... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100158105 | POST-PROCESSING ENCODING SYSTEM AND METHOD Quantization post-processing encoding systems and methods are described. In one embodiment an encoding system includes a quantization module, a quantization coefficient buffer, and a quantization post-processing module. The quantization module performs quantized encodin... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100153661 | PROCESSING OF READ REQUESTS IN A MEMORY CONTROLLER USING PRE-FETCH MECHANISM A memory controller provided according to an aspect of the present invention includes a predictor block which predicts future read requests after converting the memory address in a prior read request received from the processor to an address space consistent with the im... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100153618 | SHARED MEMORY ACCESS TECHNIQUES Memory access techniques, in accordance with embodiments of the present technology, redirect memory access requests received from a baseband processor to shared memory coupled to an application processor. The techniques enable substantially real time read and write acce... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100150244 | Techniques for Scalable Dynamic Data Encoding and Decoding Scalable techniques for dynamic data encoding and decoding are directed toward a system including a plurality of frame processing units. A main frame processing unit manages frame processing unit resource, dispatches frames to appropriate frame processing units. One or ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100150237 | SELECTING A MACROBLOCK ENCODING MODE Non-encoded data for a macroblock of an image frame is accessed. A cost to intra-encode the macroblock is computed using at least a portion of the non-encoded data in place of reconstructed image data from another macroblock of the image frame. The cost can be compared ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100149372 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING WITH MULTIPLE CAMERAS Pictures can be taken with multiple (e.g., two) cameras, and the statistics associated with any of those pictures can be used to correct (e.g., color balance) any of the other pictures. Generally speaking, first image data captured by a first camera is accessed (e.g., r... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100149216 | VARIABLE SCALING OF IMAGE DATA FOR ASPECT RATIO CONVERSION A mechanism for enabling a user to vary the scale or zoom of image data for aspect ratio conversion using a graphical user interface is disclosed. A user may move a selector of the graphical user interface to one end for selecting a linear scaling, to the other end for ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100149199 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO MEMORY USAGE FOR GENERAL SYSTEM APPLICATION A system and method for facilitating access to graphics memory wherein the graphics memory can be shared between a graphics processor and general system application. The method includes detecting an idle state of a graphics processing unit (GPU). The GPU uses graphics m... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100149175 | 3D ENHANCEMENT OF VIDEO REPLAY A method for 3-D enhancement of video playback. The method includes receiving a plurality of video streams from a corresponding plurality of video capture devices and processing image data comprising each of the video streams using a 3-D surface reconstruction algorithm... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100149004 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODED VIDEO COMPRESSION Embodiments of the claimed subject matter provide a method and system for performing data compression by encoding input into Exp-Golomb code. In one embodiment, data compression of data input is achieved via encoding as unsigned Exp-Golomb code. The method is achieved b... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100146458 | Operating System Providing Multi-Touch Support For Applications In A Mobile Device An operating system providing multi-touch support for (user) applications in a mobile device. In one embodiment, a check of whether the touch screen (in the mobile device) has multi-touch capability is performed. A first interface with multi-touch capability is provided... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100146198 | OPTIMAL POWER USAGE IN DECODING A CONTENT STREAM STORED IN A SECONDARY STORAGE Decoding a content of interest with optimal power usage. In an embodiment, a central processing unit (CPU) retrieves the frames of a data stream of interest from a secondary storage and stores them in a random access memory (RAM). The CPU forms an index table indicating... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100146173 | ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION OVER SERIAL BUSES IN A SLAVE DEVICE In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a slave device enters a state suitable for establishing communication with a host device only if additional information is received on a serial bus after receiving a reset signal on the same bus. Such a feature may ... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100142844 | MEASUREMENT-BASED AND SCALABLE DEBLOCK FILTERING OF IMAGE DATA In a deblocking operation, pixel values within a first block of pixels are compared, and pixel values in the first block are also compared to pixel values in a second block of pixels that is adjacent to the first block. Based on the results of the comparisons, a digital... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100142761 | ADAPTIVE MULTIPLE ENGINE IMAGE MOTION DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD The present invention facilitates efficient and effective detection of pixel alteration. In one embodiment a pixel alteration analysis system includes a difference summing multiple engine component and a control component. The difference summing multiple engine componen... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100142623 | MULTI-PROTOCOL DEBLOCK ENGINE CORE SYSTEM AND METHOD The present invention facilitates efficient and effective detection of pixel alteration. The number and configuration of pixels in a block partition can be flexibly changed. The filter inputs in the multi-protocol filter can be flexibly changed to meet the deblocking re... | 06/10/2010 |
