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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110279465 | MEMORY SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE ADDRESS ALLOCATION FORMATS AND METHOD FOR USE THEREOF A memory system having multiple address allocation methods for graphics data in a computer graphics processing system. The memory system includes a plurality of memory arrays, and a format register having a programmable format flag. The status of the format flag indicat... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110074802 | Architecture and Instructions for Accessing Multi-Dimensional Formatted Surface Memory One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for a program to access multi-dimensional formatted graphics surface memory. Multi-dimensional memory objects called “surfaces” stored in a user-specified data or pixel format and arranged in a graphics ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110057942 | Efficient Data Access for Unified Pixel Interpolation Disclosed herein are methods, apparatuses, and systems for accessing vertex data stored in a memory, and applications thereof. Such a method includes writing vertex data of primitives into contiguous banks of a memory such that the vertex data of consecutively written p... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110018888 | ADDRESSING METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR MULTIPLE CHIPS AND DISPLAY SYSTEM THEREOF Addressing method for multiple chips is provided. Each chip includes an input enable terminal, an output enable terminal, a data input terminal, and a clock terminal. The output enable terminal of a previous stage is connected to the input enable terminal of a next stag... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110007090 | FLAT DISPLAY APPARATUS CAPABLE OF COMPENSATING A PANEL DEFECT ELECTRICALLY AND PICTURE QUALITY CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF A flat panel display device and a picture quality controlling method thereof is provided. The flat panel display device includes a display panel. A memory stores location information about a panel defect location on the display panel and a compensation value to be dispe... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100225659 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM AND METHOD A display control device includes a memory that stores display data to be displayed on a display section, an operation section that specifies a display area of the display section where the display data is displayed, an address setting section that sets a setting addres... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100149189 | Media Action Script Acceleration Apparatus Exemplary apparatus, method, and system embodiments provide for accelerated hardware processing of an action script for a graphical image for visual display. An exemplary apparatus comprises: a first memory to store corresponding data; a first processor to separate the ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100141668 | ADDRESS CALCULATION UNIT The invention relates to a address calculation unit (15) for region based image processing tasks, where a processing unit (15) processes the data and exchanges the processed data between a global memory (11) and a local memory (12), wherein t... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100085370 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE TO DISPLAY IMAGE DATA In the display of an image including a fixed background image and a variation image of the background image, at least one of the amount of data to be held and the amount of work to be processed is reduced. A display control device acquires pixel description data includi... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100079470 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, GRAPHICS CONTROLLER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD A semiconductor device includes a data acquisition unit which acquires first graphic data including a first drawing position in a drawing region, and acquires second graphic data including a second drawing position different from the first drawing position in the drawin... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100026697 | PROCESSING RASTERIZED DATA Devices, methods, and other embodiments associated with processing rasterized data are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes translation logic for converting lines of rasterized pixel data of a compressed image to a plurality of two-dimensional data blocks... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090284539 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DIGITAL IMAGE FILES A digital image displaying system includes a DPF and an electronic device communicating with the DPF. The DPF has identification information. The electronic device includes a DPF detecting submodule, a image storing submodule for storing digital image files, a DPF manag... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090256850 | Method for Processing Display Data A method for processing display data includes: storing an image data in a plurality of first-type memories by taking scanning line data as a unit; providing one of the scanning line data stored in a particular memory of the first-type memories to one of a plurality of s... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090073179 | ADDRESSING ON CHIP MEMORY FOR BLOCK OPERATIONS A method for circularly accessing a plurality of memory addresses, using a sequence of values comprises determining a plurality of values, the number of values in the plurality of values being m, each value being represented by a predefined number of bits n. The method ... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20080158238 | FORMAT CONVERSION APPARATUS FROM BAND INTERLEAVE FORMAT TO BAND SEPARATE FORMAT A format conversion apparatus which converts image data of a band interleave format into image data of a band separate format is provided. The apparatus includes a memory which stores image data of a band interleave format; and a converting module which reads the memory... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080136832 | Dynamic Tuning Of User-Space Process One embodiment relates to a method for dynamic tuning of a user-space process. The method attaches to the user-space process. Load-time and compile-time base addresses of a data section of an object to be tuned are read. An offset to a symbol to be tuned is determined, ... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080100637 | Providing for Application Integrity, Improved Start-Up Time, and Reduced Memory Utilitization in a Safety-Critical Graphics Processing Environment At least one of graphics operation description information or graphics object description information is included within application logic. At least one of the graphics operation description information or graphics object description information is included in the progr... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080062188 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SAVING VIDEO DATA A method of and apparatus are provided for saving video data. The method for saving video data in a memory includes mapping the memory such that data of a plurality of consecutive lines in a video frame is recorded one after another in a single memory bank at intervals ... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080024509 | DATA MANAGEMENT FOR IMAGE PROCESSING A system comprises a memory storing data at addresses associated with pixels in images, each address being linked by a function to coordinates of a pixel in an ordered image reference frame, a device for processing the data associated with the pixels, where a pixel bein... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20070200862 | Imaging device, location information recording method, and computer program product A location-information storing unit stores therein location information. A location-information acquiring unit-acquires the location information from a location detecting device that detects a current location, and stores acquired location information in the location-in... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070132773 | Multi-stage memory buffer and automatic transfers in vehicle event recording systems Vehicle event recorder systems are arranged with three stage memories and special mechanism to manage those memories including transfer of data there between. Namely, a managed loop memory receives data from a video camera in real-time and continuously overwrites expire... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070132774 | System and method for a patch minimization tool The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for a patch minimization tool. In one example, the method includes identifying object files required for forming an image for a wireless device, where at least one of the object files is received from an as... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20060203002 | Display controller enabling superposed display In order to solve a problem that when displaying a plurality of overlapped windows, the occupied ratio of a common data bus increases, there is no way but to improve the operating speed of the data bus in order to display data as much as possible and as a result, power ... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060090018 | Method and apparatus for indirect addressing A display controller is provided. The display controller is configured to provide an indirect addressing mode to access a memory location within the display controller. The display controller includes a first pin configured to enable access to one of a register of the d... | 04/27/2006 |
| 20060066630 | Apparatus and method for transmitting data between graphics controller and external storage A graphics controller and associated method of operation is provided. The graphics controller includes a memory for receiving image data from an image producing source. The graphics controller also includes an image data wrapper module having circuitry that operates ind... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060066626 | Screen creating device A screen creating device includes a screen creating section and an address assigning section. The screen creating section forms a screen including a display element for showing a condition under which data is read out of or written in a region of a memory specified by a... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060022987 | Method and apparatus for arranging block-interleaved image data for efficient access The invention is directed to specifying addresses in a memory for each sample in a minimum coded unit. Preferably, the samples are presented in a predetermined sequence to the memory for storage. For each sample, its presentation to the memory is detected and an offset ... | 02/02/2006 |
| 20060022988 | Circuit and method for controlling a power cut-off protection circuit A power cut-off protection control circuit and method. A memory pair and a selecting circuit are provided. The memory pair stores data made available at respective storage inputs of first and second storage elements of the pair and provides the stored data at respective... | 02/02/2006 |
| 20050259106 | Intelligent wait methodology A central processing unit (CPU) configured to apply an intelligent wait methodology is provided. The CPU includes a chip select module that defines a chip select signal associated with an external device. The chip select module includes an address space configured to st... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050068327 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus Image data having a total number of pixels being H×V is written in SDRAM having an enough number of recording domains capable of storing all the pixel data of the image data and the number of Column addresses set therein at 2n (4≦n) in the order of lines a... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050024369 | Video and graphics system with a single-port RAM A video and graphics system has an input for receiving compressed video data and an input for receiving graphics data. The compressed video data may include HDTV video and/or SDTV video, and may be included in compressed data streams such as an MPEG-2 Transport stream. ... | 02/03/2005 |
