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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7995069 | Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formats A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. The graphics system ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7576748 | Graphics system with embedded frame butter having reconfigurable pixel formats A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. The graphics system ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7327873 | Fast software rotation of video for portrait mode displays In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises loading a processor with data from a source buffer, the data representing pixels from a first color space, and the pixels being ordered for display in a first orientation, transforming the data into data ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328358 | High quality and high performance three-dimensional graphics architecture for portable handheld devices A high quality and performance 3D graphics architecture suitable for portable handheld devices is provided. The 3D graphics architecture incorporates a module to classify polygons by size and other characteristics. In general, small and well-behaved triangles can be... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317459 | Graphics system with copy out conversions between embedded frame buffer and main memory for producing a streaming video image as a texture on a displayed object image A graphics processor includes an embedded frame buffer for storing frame data prior to sending the frame data to an external location, such as main memory. A copy pipeline is provided which converts the data from one format to another format prior to writing the dat... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313764 | Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307641 | Method and apparatus for transforming display data using multiple frame buffers in a display device Methods and systems for transforming data in a system are provided. In one implementation, the method includes providing a first frame buffer, and providing a second frame buffer that is separate from the first frame buffer. The first frame buffer is configured to s... | 12/11/2007 |
| RE39898 | Apparatus, systems and methods for controlling graphics and video data in multimedia data processing and display systems A graphics and video controller 105 is provided which includes a dual aperture interface 206 for receiving words of graphics and video pixel data, each word of such data associated with an address directing that word to be processed as either graphics ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284262 | Receiver/decoder and method of processing video data A method of processing video data in a receiver/decoder including at least one port (31) for receiving data and memory means (40) including a data buffer area (45A0, 45A1) for storing incoming data for display, and a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277133 | Adjusting pixel clock A pixel clock frequency is adjusted in response to periodically monitoring the relative positions between a video signal to be displayed and a video signal captured. Image shear of the display signal may be avoided quickly. Adjustments are made to the color burst si... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7256791 | Rasterization of three dimensional images Rasterization of three-dimensional images are provided in which three-dimensional image data, which includes at least (x,y,z) coordinate and color information, are generated, organized, and stored at memory locations in one or more frame buffers in accordance with z... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7227584 | Video signal processing system A video signal processing system for processing a video data VIN and graphic data DμP includes a filter unit, which receives the video data VIN. The filter unit filters the video data VIN to convert the video data VI... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224368 | Rendering tear free video Systems and methods to render tear free video in a multitasking operating environment are described. In one aspect, a video playback window portion of a desktop display is divided into non-overlapping first and second partitions. As video data is scanned into displa... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212204 | System and method for graphics culling A method is disclosed for culling an object database in a graphics processing system. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding per-object parameters and culling parameters. The per-object parameters are encoded in texture format thereby creating at least one... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7205997 | Transparent video capture from primary video surface A method and system for converting an image data generated by a graphics subsystem into a video format. In one embodiment, the method includes generating the image data, storing the image data in a buffer, capturing the buffer to convert the image data to a texture,... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199804 | Ink information in image files Association of ink information with image files is described. An image file is created and ink information is parsed and inserted into comment or arbitrary data fields of the image file. The image file with additional ink information may be used by both ink-enabled ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7184059 | Graphics system with copy out conversions between embedded frame buffer and main memory A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. The graphics process... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180526 | Transparent compatibility and adaptation to differing format implementations in a computer system A method for improving compatibility between an application program and a display device of a computer system includes: providing a first format in a first frame buffer, the first format compatible with a format for an application program, providing a second format ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176947 | Device for driving a display apparatus There is provided a device for driving a display apparatus. A data line drive section is common to a main screen and a sub-screen, supplies to the main screen gray scale voltages corresponding to display data from CPU, and supplies to the sub-screen a gray scale vol... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176847 | Electronic interface device An electronic interface device includes (1) a first input receiving signals from a graphics controller of a first electronic device having a display screen, (2) a second input receiving signals form a second electronic device, (3) a multiplexer,... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173635 | Remote graphical user interface support using a graphics processing unit Methods, apparatus and systems for the display, on a remote node, of a three-dimensional (3D) image rendered on a host system in a first image format are described. In general, the 3D image is transformed into a second image format that is compressed (i.e., uses few... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7158178 | Method of converting a sub-sampled color image A method of converting from a sub-sampled color image in a first color space format to a full color image in a second color space format includes the following. A sub-sampled color image in a first color space format is transformed to a second color space format. At... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158140 | Method and apparatus for rendering an image in a video graphics adapter In accordance with the invention, a video source is received by a first video adapter. The video source is captured in the video memory associated with the first VGA. The stored video source is associated with a window of an existing application. When the window loc... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7145829 | Single cycle refresh of multi-port dynamic random access memory (DRAM) A multi-port DRAM having refresh cycles interleaved with normal read and write operations implements a single cycle refresh sequence by deferring the write portion of the sequence until the next refresh cycle. During a single clock cycle, the system writes stored da... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7123277 | Conversion of a sub-pixel format data to another sub-pixel data format In a first embodiment, a method of converting a source pixel data of a first format for a display of a second format having a plurality of three-color pixel elements comprises determining implied sample areas for each data point of each color in the source pixel dat... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7102687 | Image data conversion processing device and information processing device having the same An image data conversion processing device including an issue unit, plural line storing units, and a generating unit for converting to a television signal image data stored in plural kinds of developing formats in a storing unit. The image data comprises plural line... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099973 | Method and system of bus master arbitration A system (100) having a plurality of bus masters (111–113) coupled to an arbiter (150) is disclosed. An arbiter (150) is coupled to a first storage location (151) and a second storage location (152), where the first and se... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7091980 | System and method for communicating digital display data and auxiliary processing data within a computer graphics system A method for communicating digital display data and associated auxiliary processing data from a frame buffer to a post processor. The method includes storing the display data and the auxiliary processing data in the frame buffer, forming video scan lines from the fr... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089431 | Data processing system for reducing wasteful power consumption An image processing unit decodes coded data that have been coded and synthesizes the decoded moving image with graphics data. In a case where only graphics data are to be displayed, a bypass unit outputs the graphics data to a display device without use of an image ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088370 | Raster engine with programmable matrix controlled grayscale dithering An improved raster engine adapted to render video data from a frame buffer to one of a plurality of disparate displays is disclosed which comprises an integral bounded video signature analyzer, a hardware cursor apparatus supporting dual scanned displays, programmat... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7081894 | Picture drawing apparatus and picture drawing method The picture drawing method is in a graphics computer, a special effect device or a video game machine. Data required for picture drawing is generated by pre-processing by a pre-processor 32 based on a drawing command for drawing a picture model defined by the... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7075545 | Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formats A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. The graphics system ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7057621 | Screen display apparatus and a method for utilizing the screen display apparatus in a mobile terminal An apparatus and method for displaying a multimedia screen in a mobile terminal. A first memory selectively stores multimedia image data received at a service request of the mobile terminal or text data and background screen image data provided for a display service... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057622 | Graphics display system with line buffer control scheme A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The chip includes a display engine that process... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7038669 | System and method for providing a reference video signal A method is taught for providing a reference video signal to a video display through a video interface from a video display adapter for a host computer. The method includes the step of providing a horizontal sync line to carry a horizontal sync signal that occupies ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7024055 | Sparse representation of extended gamut images Data storage format for storing images with extended color gamut that is compatible with limited color gamut imaging devices includes identifying regions within the color image that contain extended gamut color values, using a compact notation to store an identifica... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7006112 | Method for scaling image frame A method for scaling an image frame by an off-screen technology is provided. An image frame consisting of n rows and m columns of data is stored into a storage device. The image frame is divided into a plurality of image portions. Then, the plurality of image portio... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000044 | Electronic camera and data transmission system A data transmission system or an electronic camera in which data is transmitted from a first block to a second block is disclosed. A requesting means notifies from the second block, a request of receiving data from the first block at least in predetermined units the... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999047 | Displaying video on a plasma display panel A method of displaying a video signal (Vs) with m video lines in a video field period on a plasma display panel (1) which has n display lines (Di), includes selecting (2) the n display lines (Di) in an interlaced way to subsequently select a first and ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999057 | Timing of fields of video An apparatus and method to delay a field of video by one row in a two field frame to reduce DC build-up or stick caused by textual image. ... | 02/14/2006 |
