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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169443 | Method and system to pre-fetch data in a network A system, a computer readable storage medium including instructions, and a computer-implemented method of pre-fetching in a network. A request is received from a user device for a first web page, the first web page being upstream of other web pages in a page flow. T... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8149243 | 3D graphics API extension for a packed float image format A three dimensional (3D) graphics applications programming interface (API) extension provides support for specifying images in a packed float format. In the packed float format, floating point values of three color components are represented as N bits, where N is le... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139071 | Buffering unit to support graphics processing operations An apparatus and method for buffering graphics data are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a reorder control unit that is connected to the storage unit. The reorder control unit is configured to coordinate stora... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8098253 | Display unit and method for displaying multiple images A display unit includes: a display panel for displaying a plurality of information images; a memory for storing a plurality of image data elements corresponding to the information images; an image memory for storing the image data elements transferred from the memor... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8068112 | Image buffering techniques A system, apparatus, method and article to perform buffering techniques are described. The apparatus may include a buffer having a fixed number of storage slots that store reconstructed picture representations received from an image processing module. Also, the appa... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068111 | Method for increasing speed in virtual three dimensional application A method for increasing speed in virtual 3D application is applied to a game console, which includes a processor and is used for outputting scan lines of a frame. The method includes the steps of: providing registers corresponding to the scan lines; and interrupting... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059129 | Fast rasterizer A fast rasterizer uses a fast memory that has a bit-set port for receiving data and a totally independent readout and clear port for outputting a waveform image. The fast memory is organized into rows and columns corresponding to the rows and columns of a raster dis... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059130 | Document reservation processing operation system A document processing operation system includes: a rewrite unit; and an image display medium for holding display of a document image rewritably and in a substantially no-power supply state, which is attached to the rewrite unit, wherein the rewrite unit performs dis... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7999816 | Video display apparatus A video display apparatus that supports a display data channel (DDC) standard includes: one DDC-supported non-volatile memory and a control unit for writing, based on information indicating the kind of input video signal, extended display identification (EDID) data ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999817 | Buffering unit to support graphics processing operations An apparatus and method for buffering graphics data are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a memory and a buffering unit that is connected to the memory. The buffering unit is configured to buffer vertex attributes en route to the... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7948497 | Chipset and related method of processing graphic signals A chipset is electrically connected with an external graphic module, which generates a first graphic signal and outputs it to the chipset. The chipset includes an internal graphic module and a control module. The internal graphic module generates a second graphic si... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7907144 | Optimized tile-based image storage A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to store image data for use in a real-time compositing computer application. A storage tile size is determined based on disk input/output (I/O) hardware testing. A processing ti... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7884827 | Method and system to pre-fetch data in a network A system and method of pre-fetching data in a network includes displaying first data to a user, the first data being upstream of other data in a data flow. Before receiving a request from the user to view a second data, retrieving the second data and storing the ret... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7868895 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program, and storage medium An apparatus has a first attribute setting unit which sets first attribute information of image data, a second attribute setting unit which sets second attribute information of the image data, and an input-output controller which writes and reads out image data to a... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859541 | Apparatus, system, and method for using page table entries in a graphics system to provide storage format information for address translation A graphics system utilizes page table entries to provide information on the storage format used to store graphics data. The page table entries, in turn, may be used for address translation. Exemplary kinds of storage format information include compression mode, a pa... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7843460 | Method and apparatus for bandwidth corruption recovery A graphics processor is provided. The graphics processor includes a memory storing image data for presentation and a display memory region in communication with the memory, the display memory region supplying image data to a display panel for presentation. The graph... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7812847 | Method and apparatus for providing bandwidth priority A memory for a graphics processor is provided. The memory includes a write first-in-first-out (FIFO) region of the memory for receiving pixel data, and a read FIFO region for accessing the pixel data received into the memory through the write FIFO. The memory has a ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7768520 | Hierarchical tiling of data for efficient data access in high performance video applications In a video application, a method and system provide different sizes of data-fetch where the data transfer rate between a decoder and an external memory (e.g., DDR memory) is extremely high, as for example in HDTV systems. The invention in one form divides a referenc... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7764289 | Methods and systems for processing objects in memory Methods and apparatuses to create and manage volatile graphics objects in a video memory are disclosed. An object is created and marked as volatile. The volatile object is stored in a video memory of a graphics subsystem. A volatile marking indicates that data for a... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7742054 | Display module A display module for displaying information on a screen, using a display data structure, wherein the display data structure is a doubly linked list. A display space in defined in video memory and the display space is filled by sequentially copying at least a portion... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7737984 | Method and system for an external front buffer for a graphical system In one embodiment of the present invention, a system for displaying images in at least one display window on a display unit includes a display processor configured to generate graphics commands from a received input. A graphics processing unit is coupled to the disp... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7728840 | Sliding data buffering for image processing A method for managing image processing data buffers for processes having overlap input data between iterations includes loading a data buffer with an initial input data array and performing an image data array operation on the input data array. The method repeats th... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7659904 | System and method for processing high priority data elements A method and system for accommodating at least one high priority data element from a plurality of data elements written into a ring buffer including a processor that preempts a ring buffer by modifying at least one of the data elements previously written to the ring... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7659905 | Method and system to pre-fetch data in a network A system and method of pre-fetching data in a network includes displaying first data to a user, the first data being upstream of other data in a data flow. Before receiving a request from the user to view the other data, retrieving at least some of the other data an... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7656410 | Image buffering techniques A system, apparatus, method and article to perform buffering techniques are described. The apparatus may include a buffer having a fixed number of storage slots that store reconstructed picture representations received from an image processing module. Also, the appa... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7616208 | Method and system for application broadcast Methods and apparatuses are described for application broadcasting. For one embodiment, pixel data being broadcast from a moderator to one or more participants is divided into tiles. Display data is generated for each tile. Each display data segment (segment) contai... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7593016 | Method and apparatus for high density storage and handling of bit-plane data In an image processing system, high density storage of bit-plane data is provided in a secondary or page memory as well as high bandwidth access to the data by an image processor. The page memory provides storage of data not currently being processed. The page memor... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7573482 | Method for reducing memory consumption when carrying out edge enhancement in multiple beam pixel apparatus A method for reducing memory consumption when carrying out edge enhancement in a multiple beam pixel apparatus is provided, wherein Static Random Access Memories and first in first out buffers are employed. When the first to the nth input units read the n... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7551175 | Image transmission system and image transmission method An image transmission system which enables to perform various types of presentations and also to reduce a transmission path is provided. A PC includes a display image generation unit, a layer capture unit for sorting a layer composing a display image into a layer to... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7545382 | Apparatus, system, and method for using page table entries in a graphics system to provide storage format information for address translation A graphics system utilizes page table entries to provide information on the storage format used to store graphics data. The page table entries, in turn, may be used for address translation. Exemplary kinds of storage format information include compression mode, a pa... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7515158 | Modularly configurable memory system for LCD TV system A configurable memory system provides a high bandwidth, low latency, no wait state data path to a memory system functioning as a frame buffer for a digital video processing system. The configurable memory system has configurable channels that are programmable to con... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7508395 | Apparatus and method of processing signals An apparatus of processing a signal is provided, which includes: a frame memory storing data for two frames; and a signal processing unit writing data for two rows into the frame memory or reading data for two rows from the frame memory during input of data for one ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7474312 | Memory redirect primitive for a secure graphics processing unit In one embodiment of the present invention, a GPU contains an authentication module at the front end, and a memory security engine and graphic memory interface at the backend. In one embodiment of the present invention, the memory security engine provides a privileg... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7460127 | Display control circuit A display control circuit incorporating a RAM in which display data is stored, comprises an oscillation circuit which oscillates a reference clock to define a transfer period in which the display data is transferred from the RAM to a display and a counter circuit wh... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7446776 | Display controller with DRAM graphic memory A system, a circuit and a method are given, to realize a display control and driver interface with graphic display memory, whereby the use of dynamic RAM rather than static RAM for this graphic display memory is new. This has the advantage, that for a given size of ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7439980 | Image processing method and apparatus In image processing adapted to a display apparatus using a plurality of line buffers for storing data regarding dots aligned on scanning lines on the screen, when a line having a prescribed width and a prescribed length is drawn on the screen, a line drawing range i... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439981 | Methods and systems for displaying animated graphics on a computing device Disclosed are methods and systems for interfaces between video applications and display screens that allow applications to intelligently use display resources of their host device without tying themselves too closely to operational particulars of that host. A graphi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7432932 | External memory system having programmable graphics processor for use in a video game system or the like A video game system is described for use with a television type display device including a host video game system housing a game program processor and a programmable special purpose hardware graphics processor. The programmable graphics processor communicates with t... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420568 | System and method for packing data in different formats in a tiled graphics memory A tiled graphics memory permits graphics data to be stored in different tile formats. One application is selecting a tile format optimized for the data generated for particular graphical surfaces in different rendering modes. Consequently, the tile format can be sel... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417646 | Background rendering in video compositing Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of editing video through a multi-stage editing process. The method selects a particular stage in the editing process. A particular editing operation is performed on a set of video images during the particular stage.... | 08/26/2008 |
