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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127187 | Error Check-Only Mode Video display pipes may terminate with a FIFO (first-in first-out) buffer from which pixels are provided to a display controller to display the pixels on a graphics/video display. The display pipes may frequently process the pixels at a much higher rate than at which th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120044253 | LOW-LATENCY REMOTE DISPLAY RENDERING USING TILE-BASED RENDERING SYSTEMS Apparatus, systems and methods for low latency remote display rendering using tile-based rendering systems are disclosed. In one implementation, a system includes a network interface and a content source coupled to the network interface. The content source being capable... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120008002 | Real-Time Video Frame Pre-Processing Hardware A dynamically reconfigurable heterogeneous systolic array is configured to process a first image frame, and to generate image processing primatives from the image frame, and to store the primatives and the corresponding image frame in a memory store. A characteristic of... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007875 | Multiple Monitor Video Control A computer system comprising a processor including a display controller operative to output display data and a clock signal, and a programmable logic device communicatively connected to the processor, the programmable logic device including a first FIFO (first in first ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007873 | COMPUTER SYSTEM CONTROLLER HAVING INTERNAL MEMORY AND EXTERNAL MEMORY CONTROL The present invention relates generally to an optimized memory architecture for computer systems and, more particularly, to integrated circuits that implement a memory subsystem that is comprised of internal memory and control for external memory. The invention includes... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007874 | DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING A WAVEFORM WITH VARIABLE PERSISTENCE AND METHOD OF PROVIDING THE SAME A device includes a memory storing a persistence bit for each of a plurality of pixels of a display device, the persistence bit having a first value when a corresponding pixel should be illuminated for displaying a persistent image, and having a second value when the co... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120001929 | VOLTAGE INITIALIZATION CIRCUIT BEING CAPABLE OF RECORDING A PREFERRED VOLTEGE AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING SAME A voltage initialization circuit for recording a preferred voltage includes a first terminal, a second input terminal, a first buffer circuit connected to a first node, a second buffer circuit connected to a second node, a ground connected to the first buffer circuit vi... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316863 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD A memory section provides an input buffer capable of holding image data being a processing target of each processing by an image processing unit, and an output buffer capable of holding image data being a processing result. Through an input section, a user selects a plu... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110298812 | Seamless Switching Between Graphics Controllers A system and method for resolving the blank screen issue when switching between graphics processing units. The system and method provide a graphics adapter LCD timing controller (Tcon) with a frame buffer specifically dedicated to storing previously presented screen dat... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292060 | Frame buffer sizing to optimize the performance of on screen graphics in a digital electronic device In the instant invention an improved method and device is described for utilizing the frame buffer of and electronic device with a display. The frame buffer is enlarged well beyond the dimensions of the display and the user is unable to change which region of the frame ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110279464 | Auto Double Buffer in Display Controller In a double buffering technique, a display controller refreshes a display from a first frame buffer by default and a processor draws into a second frame buffer. When the processor finishes drawing the second frame buffer, the processor signals the display controller tha... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110273463 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF The present application relates to method of driving an image display device comprising inserting a black data frame displaying black data between neighboring data frames alternately displaying left-eye data and right-eye data; comparing an nth frame corresponding to a ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110273464 | Framework for Graphics Animation and Compositing Operations A framework for performing graphics animation and compositing operations has a layer tree for interfacing with the application and a render tree for interfacing with a render engine. Layers in the layer tree can be content, windows, views, video, images, text, media, or... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110249906 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF WRITING COMPRESSED DATA INTO FRAME BUFFER AND READING BUFFERED DATA FROM FRAME BUFFER ALTERNATELY AND RELATED IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF An image processing apparatus includes a processing circuit and a storage system. The processing circuit generates a first processing result and a second processing result by processing a first horizontal line group of a first frame and a second horizontal line group of... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110242122 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AN ACTIVE INPUT AREA Various methods for determining an active input area are provided. One example method includes acquiring frame buffer data defining an image area that has been refreshed and detecting a cursor within the frame buffer data. Detecting the cursor may include determining th... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234608 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF An image display apparatus includes a memory 1 having a first mode and a second mode in which image data are sequentially written and read per frame and per sub-frame area respectively, a compressor 10 capable of switching a compression output state and an... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110234636 | METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR IMAGE MANIPULATION A method and integrated circuit for manipulating two dimensional images. The method and integrated circuit use an on-chip memory buffer comprising four memory elements, and accessed as a rectangle of 4 times an integer number of bytes by a number of lines depending on t... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110227937 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FRAME BUFFER STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL IN ALTERNATING ORIENTATIONS The present invention provides a method and apparatus for storing image data for successive frames in a frame buffer. Specifically, the method and apparatus allow for a display-sized frame buffer to be utilized where a host system provides image data in a format differe... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110227739 | Multi-Display Bedside Monitoring System The present specification discloses systems and methods for patient monitoring using a multitude of display regions, at least two of which have the capability to simultaneously display real time patient waveforms and vital statistics as well as provide display for local... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110197151 | GRAPHICS REMOTING USING AUGMENTATION DATA Methods and systems are disclosed in which bitmap data transmission is improved by using some of the advantages of primitive remoting, thus allowing for the reduction of the bandwidth and processing needed to remote a virtual desktop experience. In an embodiment, render... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110187730 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME A display apparatus includes a display panel, a plurality of gate lines driving circuit parts, a plurality of data lines driving circuit parts and a timing control part. The display panel includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines. The gate lines d... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110169847 | User Interface Unit for Fetching Only Active Regions of a Frame A user interface unit in a graphics processing display pipe may include registers programmable with information that defines active regions of an image frame. Pixels within the active regions of the image frame are meant to be displayed, while pixels outside of the acti... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110169848 | Parameter FIFO A graphics system may include one or more processing units for processing a current display frame, each processing unit including a plurality of parameter registers for storing parameter settings used in processing the current display frame. A parameter buffer in the gr... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110169849 | Buffer Underrun Handling A graphics system may include a display pipe with a buffer configured to store pixels to be processed by a display controller for displaying on a display device, with a buffer control circuit coupled to the buffer to supply pixels to the display controller. When the buf... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110164027 | METHOD OF DETECTING CHANGE IN DISPLAY DATA An apparatus and method for updating a display are disclosed. Identifying values are determined for units of display data. Identifying values for units of display data received during an update are compared to identifying values for previously received units of display ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110157201 | Display data management techniques Embodiments provide techniques for generation and outputting of display data. For instance, embodiments provide features involving frame data storage within display devices. Also, embodiments provide features involving the isolation of different user contexts to differe... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157202 | Techniques for aligning frame data Techniques are described that can used to synchronize the start of frames from multiple sources so that when a display is to output a frame to a next source, boundaries of current and next source are aligned. Techniques attempt to avoid visible glitches when switching f... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157001 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY FRAMEBUFFER PROCESSING Various methods for display framebuffer processing are provided. One example method include determining, via a processor, that update criteria associated with a display region has been satisfied, and comparing current frame data for the display region to subsequent fram... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157193 | LOAD BALANCING IN A SYSTEM WITH MULTI-GRAPHICS PROCESSORS AND MULTI-DISPLAY SYSTEMS In typical embodiments a three GPU configuration is provided comprising three discrete video cards, each connected to a standard monitor placed horizontally for a 3× horizontal resolution. In this configuration, depending on the load on each GPU, the vertical split lin... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157198 | Techniques for aligning frame data Techniques are described that can used to synchronize the start of frames from multiple sources so that when a display is to output a frame to a next source, boundaries of current and next source are aligned. Techniques are useful to avoid visual distortions when changi... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110148892 | Forming a windowing display in a frame buffer A windowing display using deferred drawing commands operates by processing the drawing commands that write to a tile 22 of a frame buffer 30 to form one or more new pixel values are stored within a tile memory 40. Dirty pixel data indicative of whic... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110148893 | OUTPUT BUFFER HAVING HIGH SLEW RATE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING OUTPUT BUFFER, AND DISPLAY DRIVING DEVICE INCLUDING OUTPUT BUFFER An output buffer having a high slew rate, a method of controlling the output buffer, and a display driving device including the output buffer. The output buffer includes: a first output buffer adapted to output a source line driving signal to a first output terminal in ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110141112 | Image processing techniques Hierarchical culling can be used during shadow generation by using a stencil buffer generated from a light view of the eye-view depth buffer. The stencil buffer indicates which regions visible from an eye-view are also visible from a light view. A pixel shader can deter... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110134132 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSPARENTLY DIRECTING GRAPHICS PROCESSING TO A GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNIT (GPU) OF A MULTI-GPU SYSTEM A method for transparently directing data in a multi-GPU system. A driver application receives a first plurality of graphics commands from a first graphics application and selects a first GPU from the multi-GPU system to exclusively process the first plurality of graphi... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110134134 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS An image display apparatus, including multiple line buffers that divide a unit line's worth of image data into multiple pieces and store those pieces. The compression unit, executes the first process in which the compression of the image data read out from the line buff... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110122272 | Apparatus and method for preparing, storing, transmitting and displaying images An imaging and display apparatus for passive displays evaluates the illumination of an input scene and incorporates data representative of such input scene within a transfer media. The transfer media may be a broadcast or transmission of image data, illumination data an... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110102446 | Graphics processing systems A graphics processor 1 includes after its tile rendering logic 40, a transaction elimination unit 5 that includes data block generation logic 41 and block comparison logic 43. The block generation logic 41 generates data blocks ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110096090 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANIMATING AN ON-SCREEN DISPLAY MENU A display device includes: a first memory for storing OSD animation program instructions and an original OSD menu frame; a microcontroller for executing the OSD animation program instructions so as to generate (N) covering frames that are superimposed on (N) copies of t... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110080418 | PAGE TRANSITIONS ON ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAYS A page transition file creation system and a method for creating a page transition file in a file format suitable for displaying transitions quickly on an electronic paper display. The page transition file creation system creates a page transition file with page transit... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110074800 | Method and apparatus for controlling display operations A graphics processing system includes a graphics processor 1 that renders output frames that are written to a frame buffer in a memory 2 for display on a display 7. Comparison and control hardware 5 of the graphics processing system operates ... | 03/31/2011 |
